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Former Vice President Al Gore will be coming to Virginia on Friday to give a last-minute boost to the Democratic candidate for governor, Creigh Deeds, a party source said. Gore will headline a private fundraiser in McLean at the home of longtime Democratic supporters Al and Claire Dwoskin. The visit will provide positive publicity for Deeds in the days before the Nov. 3 election, when Deeds will face Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee.

Don't be surprised f you see a bunch of pink-slipped Current producers in SOMA, so be nice and buy one a drink. San Francisco-based Current Media, cofounded by former Vice President Al Gore, is looking to lay off more local employees, according to a source familiar with its plans. The company laid off 60 employees last year, or about 15 percent of its staff, though promised to rehire some in new positions. Part of the losses will stem from moving all video production to Los Angeles, or even outsourcing it entirely. The network made the news when a reporter Laura...

I can’t believe that any rational intelligent person can still believe in Global warming. The proponents of this fallacy even changed the name of Global warming to Climate Change to obfuscate the fact that the Earth really wasn’t warming and the Carbon induced warming which they original claimed would destroy the world was all based on false science. What is most disturbing is that against a preponderance of evidence, no carbon induced warming since 1999, colder global temperatures in spite of elevated carbon in the atmosphere, these fanatics persist in their attempts to change the very essence of human existence...

Climate Change: As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming? Al Gore wasn't there to throw out the first snowball, er, baseball, so he might not have noticed that Saturday's playoff game between the Colorado Rockies and the Philadelphia Phillies was snowed out — in early October. The field should have been snow-free just as the North Pole was to be ice-free this year. It seems that ice at both poles hasn't been paying attention to...

The Holocaust - the systematic annihilation of six million Jews - is a history of enduring horror and sorrow. The charred skeletons, the diabolic experiments, the death camps, the mass graves, the smoke from the chimneys ... In 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed by the Nazis. 1.5 million children were murdered. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of handicapped children. Yet there...

What global warming? Riddle me this, boys and girls — what was the hottest year on record? 2008? 2007? Try 1998. “This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.” So, just to reiterate,...

At a conference for environmental journalists in Wisconsin, Al Gore dodged questions on the many identified errors in his global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth. "We're very close to that political tipping point," Gore said. "Never before in human history has a single generation been asked to make such difficult and consequential decisions." While the audience of environmental journalists were largely in agreement with Mr. Gore's presentation and his positions, one Irish journalist and filmmaker asked Gore about the many scientific errors that were found in Gore's global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth. "A judge in the British High Court,...

<p>Global Warming: President Obama warns of planetary doom at the U.N. if we fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation. Meanwhile, a former warm-monger predicts decades of cooling as the sun stays nearly "spotless."</p> <p>The president had hoped to address Tuesday's United Nations climate change summit in New York with a finished cap-and-trade bill. Failing that, he hoped he'd at least have a version of the Waxman-Markey bill that has passed the House on his desk before the Copenhagen talks in December to cobble together a follow-up to the failed Kyoto Protocol.</p>

Former Vice President Al Gore shared his optimism about the "shifting momentum" of the climate change debate with about 500 environmental journalists Friday in Madison. "We're very close to that political tipping point," Gore said at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference at the Madison Concourse Hotel. "Never before in human history has a single generation been asked to make such difficult and consequential decisions." He said he expects the Senate to pass a carbon emissions reduction bill before a December United Nations conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The House passed a similar bill in June. He also said he...

The director of “Not Evil, Just Wrong,” a documentary challenging Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” dares to ask a question at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. Not only does the Vice President refuse to answer the question, but he is harassed by the Al Gore swat team later. See the video

Who's on the Nobel Committee? And What Do They Really Want from Obama? What do the Norwegian Nobel arbiters expect to collect from President Barack Obama? They have just awarded him a peace prize which Obama himself suggests was extended on credit — or so he implied in telling reporters Friday morning that he wasn’t sure he’d done enough to deserve it.

It's truly extraordinary how every left-of-centre journalist in the country has managed to become an instant expert on the arcane subjects of global warming and the science of climate change. Imagine, for example, if some average Canadian hack who had never studied the Middle East suddenly announced that he was an authority on Israel-Palestine, knew which side was right and knew how to solve all of the associated problems. This, however, is what we are told every day when it comes to the fashion of sounding green. The more sympathy we can exhibit for Al Gore's polar bear or David...

Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today before he had his breakfast. The only problem is that he's done nothing to win it, unless of course you buy the idea that flowery rhetoric and great intentions are deserving of such an honor. The only person who has contributed less content to deserve this award in the world is Al Gore. Between Al's contentless and largely fictional "An Inconvenient Truth" and Barack's "Audacity of Hope" media campaign, the two of them together might have enough contributions to win the wrapping paper and box it will be shipped in. The...

Arctic Canadian high pressure settles across Montana, Wyoming and Colorado this weekend. Saturday morning, the snow will taper off or end, leaving lows reminiscent of December and January across the interior Northwest. Plenty of daily record lows will be set this weekend as temperatures bottom out anywhere from just below zero to the mid teens in Montana and Wyoming.

The Society of Environmental Journalists will welcome Former Vice President Al Gore and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to their 19th annual conference Friday, October 9. Journalists have been in town since Wednesday, discussing a wide range of topics from the Wisconsin River to sustainable agriculture to wildlife forensics. Gore is scheduled to speak at 8:45 a.m. Friday on the importance of global climate change action 12 years after the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, and will follow up with a Q&A from the audience. You can watch the event LIVE on WAOW.com this morning and participate in...

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Folks, Psychologists have finally found a way to explain Al Gore's hypocritical support of the global hoax. A study done at the University of Chicago have revealed a new research study suggesting that people who become eco-conscious "green consumers" are "more likely to steal and lie" than others. In line with the halo associated with green consumerism, people act more altruistically after mere exposure to green than conventional products. However, people act less altruistically and are more likely to cheat and steal after purchasing green products as opposed to conventional products... purchasing green products may produce the counter-intuitive effect of...

Can we stop it with the “Gov. Palin’s not the sharpest tack in the drawer” meme, one forever stated and implied by liberals, and increasingly agreed with by conservative writers and pundits? After seeing the fiscal, domestic and foreign policy fruits produced by the last nine months of the so-called Smartest Guys in the Room, I think most Americans, regardless of education, are ready for an Ivy-free Oval Office. On “The O’Reilly Factor” last week, Dennis Miller was the latest to repeat this falsity with a reaction that is nothing short of reflexive, the idea that whenever one says something...

Harry Smith the host of the CBS Early Show Gave us a preview of what "Shangri-La" will look like should President Obama, Al Gore and the environmental moonbats get their way. Colin and Michelle Beavan decided to go a year without modern conveniences such as electricity, to limit their impact on the environment. They ate fresh locally produced food. And had a compost complete with worms in the middle of their living room. And they went a year without Toilet Paper. Yes America, Change you can all count on....life without toilet paper. As reported in Newsbusters, what motivated the Beaven's...

While the Department of Defense apparently is still attempting to block Senator Jim DeMint's fact finding trip to Honduras, he told Mark Levin this evening that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell interceded to lift the stop placed by John Kerry. ... Update: "They're telling me if I will just let a couple of their nominations go through without debate or a vote, then they will let me go on the trip," said Senator DeMint. Sounds like John Kerry learned a lot from then Senator Al Gore, who on the Senate floor asked for the highest bidder for his vote, one way...

Al Gore attacks Chuck DeVore for Barbara Boxer! A friend of our campaign just forwarded a remarkable email to us. It was from Al Gore. The email from the former Vice President was a financial appeal to Barbara Boxer’s supporters. Al Gore says this about Chuck DeVore: “Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, is already campaigning hard across California. He voted against AB 32, the landmark global warming legislation…” Al Gore is right, Chuck DeVore voted against AB 32 – and debated against it – and fought tooth and nail against its implementation every step of the way. Because, unlike Al Gore, Chuck...

Climate: Czech President Vaclav Klaus once called global warming a new religion, a Trojan horse for imposing a global tyranny worse than communism. Details about the Copenhagen Conference prove how right he was.The first of three marathon negotiating sessions designed to hammer out the details of the Copenhagen Accord on climate change to be signed in December began on Sunday, March 29, in Bonn, Germany. From what we know, it will be a surrender to tyranny as significant as another negotiated 71 years ago. A 16-page informational note obtained by Fox News outlines the goals and agenda of the United...

It seems Al Gore's ambitions are limitless. After inventing the Internet, saving the planet from global warming, receiving a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award, he now has ventured into green transportation. "Honest Al" has secured $529 million in taxpayer money for Fisker Automotive, a small car company he is backing to build a hybrid sports car. The price tag? Only a mere $89,000. That's not exactly affordable to the average American. Al knows that only the wealthy can afford to go green when it comes to cars. Judging by the early release photos it will be a sharp...

Here is a video report on a car company backed by former Vice-President Al Gore that is receiving a $529 Million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy. Fisker Automotive is working on a "plug-in" hybrid car called the "Karma." Gore ordered one for himself and invested in the company. Matt Rogers, of the Department of Energy, says Al Gore's investment in the company "has nothing to do with the loan." Critics say the car will cost $90,000 and is not for the average American. Therefore, the loan is being used to produce a very expensive car for only the...

Concerned neighbours saw mysterious men emptying their bins into black sacks and loading them into an unmarked white van. When homeowners questioned the official binmen an hour later they learned their council was conducting a survey of what was being thrown away.

Has climate change been around as long as the pyramids? It is an odd-sounding idea, because the problem is usually assumed to be a modern one, the product of a world created by the Industrial Revolution and powered by high-polluting fossil fuels. But a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia has suggested that people began altering the climate thousands of years ago, as primitive farmers burned forests and built methane-bubbling rice paddies. The practices produced enough greenhouse gases, he says, to warm the world by a degree or more. Other scientists, however, have said the idea is deeply flawed...

A start-up automotive company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has been loaned more than half a billion dollars by the federal government. According to The Wall Street Journal, Fisker Automotive Inc. has received $529 million in taxpayer money. The loan was intended to help Fikser produce a hybrid sports car to be sold in Finland.

WASHINGTON -- A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000. The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla is a California startup focusing on all-electric vehicles, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that have contributed to Democratic campaigns. The awards to Fisker and Tesla have prompted concern from...

Gore-Backed Automaker Secures $529M Taxpayer Loan The federal government has loaned $529 million to Fisker Automotive Inc., a small car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000, the Wall Street Journal reported. September 26, 2009 The federal government has loaned $529 million to Fisker Automotive Inc., a small car company backed by Gore to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000, the Wall Street Journal reported. Fisker isn't the only automaker to reap millions from Uncle Sam....

Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan By JOSH MITCHELL and STEPHEN POWER WASHINGTON -- A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000. The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla, like Fisker, is a California startup focusing on high-end hybrids, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that...

Taking the “Green Car Challenge” on Thursday night’s Jay Leno Show, a svelte Rush Limbaugh -- declining to don a helmet -- hopped into the electric Ford Focus on Leno’s track behind his NBC studio in Burbank, but instead of driving around the hanging cut outs of Al Gore and Ed Begley Jr., Limbaugh ran right into them. Then, to Leno’s cries of “Oh, c’mon!”, a delighted Limbaugh accepted the penalty against his time score and stopped, backed up and smashed into them again. Limbaugh’s maneuvering ensured a lower score (greater time) than the three previous contestants since Leno’s show...

The Fisker Hybrid vehicle Tyler Brownbridge/Windsor StarFisker Automotive Inc., a U.S. startup planning to sell luxury plug-in hybrid cars, secured a federal loan for as much as US$528.7-million to fund production of its low-emission models.Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the Irvine, Calif.-based company will get the conditional financing for development of two lines of plug-in hybrids. The loan is the fourth such announcement under a program intended to spur a market for vehicles that reduce fuel use and greenhouse gases."Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could revolutionize personal transportation and cut our dependence on foreign oil, not to mention give us cleaner...

Taking the “Green Car Challenge” on Thursday night's Jay Leno Show, a svelte Rush Limbaugh -- declining to don a helmet -- hopped into the electric Ford Focus on Leno's track behind his NBC studio in Burbank, but instead of driving around the hanging cut outs of Al Gore and Ed Begley Jr., Limbaugh ran right into them. Then, to Leno's cries of “Oh, c'mon!”, a delighted Limbaugh accepted the penalty against his time score and stopped, backed up and smashed into them again. Limbaugh's maneuvering ensured a lower score (greater time) than the three previous contestants since Leno's show...

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Let’s get this straight. The planet is not warming. Hasn’t warmed since around 1998. Instead, it’s cooling, and scientists say that it’s going to continue to cool for at least the next 20 or 30 years. Some even warn that based on the lack of sunspots evidenced on the sun’s surface, a reliable indicator of future climates, we may be on the verge of another little ice age. The global warming alarmists assure us that we shouldn’t worry — global warming has simply gone on vacation and will surely be back, hotter than ever, sooner or later.

The World Bank is spending billions of pounds subsidising new coal-fired power stations in developing countries despite claiming that burning fossil fuels exposes the poor to catastrophic climate change. It says that the world must reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, but it is funding several giant coal-burning plants that will each emit millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide a year for the next 40 to 50 years.

Former Vice President Al Gore and current White House climate change czar Carol Browner are warning companies and lawmakers that the courts will step in to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress fails to act. "All of the discussion has been about the president and the Congress," Gore told journalists at a U.N. press conference Tuesday. "We have a third branch of government: the courts."

Better dig out that wool hat and earmuffs. At the UN's World Climate Change Conference in Geneva over two weeks ago one of the worlds top climate change scientists, predicted that we are facing 10-20 years of global cooling. The Scientist, named Mojib Latif said the cooling would be the result of changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Latif also said that the NAO may be partly the cause of warming during the past 30 years. Latif says that he is not a global warming skeptic, and...

Global Warming: President Obama warns of planetary doom at the U.N. if we fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation. Meanwhile, a former warm-monger predicts decades of cooling as the sun stays nearly "spotless."The president had hoped to address Tuesday's United Nations climate change summit in New York with a finished cap-and-trade bill. Failing that, he hoped he'd at least have a version of the Waxman-Markey bill that has passed the House on his desk before the Copenhagen talks in December to cobble together a follow-up to the failed Kyoto Protocol. Not only did that not happen in the cool summer of...

Well, today in New York with his speech that actually was unremarkable in its genus except that it comes from a head of an erstwhile serious nation, President Obama continued his tour of singling out his own country, the greatest force for good the world has ever known, today implicitly pinning on us the global warming industry's hysterical claims of apocalypse. This set the tone for the UN's climate talks this week and related discussions at the G-20 in Pittsburgh. But it's got me wondering. The world's fourth-largest economy (way back behind #s 1 and 2) in the largest emitter...

A San Diego businessman (Bryan Bloom) who is part of a group that worries the California Air Resources Board's rules on diesel emissions will devastate parts of the state's economy for no scientifically valid reasons passed along this photo from New York City. This is what's at the address that the web site of "Thornhill University" lists for its U.S. campus.

Albert Einstein is credited with saying that that Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That does not apply to climate change. With Climate change, insanity is not recognizing the earth is doing things over and over, and coming up for a new reason for the latest episode. Facts proving humans are not causing global warming are not enough to stop the political juggernaut, heck its not enough to slow them down and think about the science behind the climate change, the truth may be that they don't really care, because when you...

An anonymous adage advises, “There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don’t respond with encores.” Break your stick in ice hockey and drop it immediately or a penalty is assessed because continued use can cause serious damage (Rule 10.3). Apparently this rule doesn’t apply in climate science where a few scientists continue to use a broken “hockey stick” and cause serious damage. Facts proving humans are not causing global warming are not enough to stop the political juggernaut. Perhaps exposure of collusion among a small group of self-proclaimed climate scientists who continue to play with a broken stick...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Proposals by Japan's new ruling party to slash greenhouse gas emissions may trigger a shake-out in smokestack industries like paper, cement and steel, but boost firms investing in solar and other green technologies. A Democratic Party (DPJ) pledge to cut emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020 is one of several proposals causing a stir across businesses. Another is a plan aimed at banning most temporary factory workers. Corporate executives say that could hit profits and push more investment overseas.

BEND, Ore. - A dusting of snow fell on Mt. Bachelor's mid-mountain Labor Day weekend, marking the beginning of a snow season that resort officials said should kick off skiing by the week of Thanksgiving.

Real goal was never to control the climate. It was always to control energy use, lives, jobs, economies, transportation and housing Of course, the real goal was never to control the climate. It was always to control energy use, lives, jobs, economies, transportation and housing – and usher in a new era of high tax global governance. The American people are increasingly saying they’re not ready to grant that power to Obama Gore & Company.

It's time to take a bit of a break from coverage of the Atlantic hurricane season of 2009, and report on some important climate news. The past decade was the warmest decade in the Arctic for the past 2,000 years, according to a study called "Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling" published today in the journal Science. Furthermore, four of the five warmest decades in the past 2,000 years occurred between 1950 - 2000, despite the fact that summertime solar radiation in the Arctic has been steadily declining for the past 2,000 years. Previous efforts to reconstruct past climate in...

For those who are interested, we've added 6 new charts/graphs/images since 2 weeks ago that counter various global warming/climate change claims of Obama and UN. Go here and scroll down for latest: http://www.c3headlines.com/ C3H Editor

Yesterday at monument square in Portland, liberal envirowackos from all over Maine rallied to shrill for lower standards of living for Maine residents in the name of the greenhouse myth, not to mention helping the government grow bigger and take away more of our hard earned money. The rally, which featured city council members, teamsters, America hating communists and others also circulated petitions calling for green energy in Maine, cap and trade and green jobs. The truth is that Maine is already strangled by environmental regulations against the economy. WE told you a year ago about a plan to build...

We’ve heard a lot this summer about the hateful rhetoric emanating from Right-wingers at health care town halls across the country. Just yesterday, I got an email from President Barack Obama’s “Organising America” campaign, railing against the “frightening smears” and “outrageous lies” - and asking for a cash donation. But some friends of mine from Ireland, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, whose film Not Evil Just Wrong is due to premiere next month, have been subjected to a slew of death threats and instances of disgusting abuse from the environmental Left. One commenter branded them “Hitler’s Henchmen”. Their crime? Their...