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The bottom line at the Copenhagen Climate Conference is the same bottom line found in every Obama proposal -- the redistribution of wealth from you to anybody else the government designates. "Redistribution of Wealth" has been the holy grail of one world levelers for over 150 years. At Copenhagen, the same folks who failed to impose a "New World Order" through international communism, and who have also failed (so far) to impose world government through the U.N., believe they have the right formula at last. The plan is simple. Hijack the science of climatology; hype evidence that the earth is...

For nearly 20 years, the “global warming movement” has been scaring the world, especially those of us in the liberal to progressive community, into believing that the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal was causing the Earth’s temperature to rise and that we as a human race were doomed if we did not undertake efforts to stop the planet from heating up. Now it appears that a lot of the climate data upon which the entirety of global warming predictions were based may have been misstated or even fraudulent. This is the pessimistic conclusion one can reach...

NEW YORK – A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs. The Tata Group headquartered...

Evangelical Left in Denial Cliff Kincaid, December 11, 2009 What is the real agenda behind the fraudulent “science? With the ClimateGate revelations of flimsy “science” behind the man-made global warming theory, the role of the religious left in promoting this fraudulent scheme now deserves serious media scrutiny. Walter Grazer, who served as the Director of the Environmental Justice Program for the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops from 1993 to 2007 and is now interim executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE), was asked for a comment on ClimateGate and replied, “I am really not up...

Sen. Inhofe Goes to Copenhagen Sarah Carlsruh, December 11, 2009 Right now, leaders from around the world are meeting in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Summit to discuss how to solve this pesky problem of rising global temperatures. Self-proclaimed leading skeptic of global warming Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok) will join them next week to voice his dissent on this great hoax of global warming. Sen. Inhofe addressed this issue at the December 8th Heritage Foundation Blogger’s Briefing. After the ClimateGate emails came to light, Sen. Inhofe called it his “redemption.” Climate change scientists, as revealed by those emails, have...

COPENHAGEN — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined the Obama administration’s charm offensive in Copenhagen on Thursday — and took some shots at the Bush administration in the process. “As much as the world awoke to the dangers of climate change, the political leadership of the United States simply slept,” Salazar said in a briefing at the U.S. center here. “Confronting the impact of climate change was simply not a priority.” He said things have changed since the election of Barack Obama. “I’m here in today in Copenhagen on behalf of President Obama to deliver a simple message: The United States...

House Democrats said Thursday that denying humans were causing climate change is like denying smoking causes lung cancer. Reps. Edward Markey (Mass.), Jay Inslee (Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) also compared climate change "deniers" to “teabaggers” who spread the false rumor about death panels and swift boaters who attacked Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) war record during the 2004 presidential race. The three members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming called a news conference on Thursday in response to the controversy over the hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia,...

The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in a way that could hurt business.

More than 100 motorists are stranded on the Thruway between Dunkirk and the Pennsylvania border, locked in by blowing snow since 1:30 a.m. when the Thruway closed. State police have managed to make contact with many motorists, and "there are no medical emergencies at this time," one trooper told The Buffalo News. Many motorists stuck in the snow have been in contact with state police by cell phone. State police on ATVs and Chautauqua County Sheriff's deputies on snowmobiles are trying to reach the stranded motorists. "We can't get aviation up in the air because of the poor visibility. But...

Obama’s Top Climate Advisers Can’t Get Doomsday Story Straight While Testifying Before Same Committee on Same Day Thursday, December 10, 2009 By Pete Winn and Christopher Neefus Last week, White House science czar John Holdren told members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that changes in global temperatures could mean a rise in sea levels of 6 feet or more in a century. But Joan Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the same committee on the same day that changes in global temperatures could mean a rise in sea levels of...

Here is video of a British expert describing what the Climate Change fanatics would like to impose on the British public, and I'm sure on the American public as well. For starters, they want to fix it so we have to eat "less meat and dairy." Professor Tim Lang says these kinds of measures are what the Copenhagen Climate Change conference should be all about, and they want "Government" to get involved to make this change in eating habits come about. It may be healthier to eat the way Professor Lang suggests, but in a free society, shouldn't that be...

Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science --snip-- Today, the Darwinian scientific consensus persists within almost every large university and governmental institution. But around the middle of the 20th century an interesting new trend emerged and has since become increasingly established. Evolutionary theorists have been forced, step by step, to steadily retreat from the evidence in the field. Some of the evidences mentioned earlier in this article were demonstrated to be frauds and hoaxes. Other discoveries have been a blow to the straightforward expectations and predictions of evolutionists. Increasingly, they have been forced to tack ad hoc mechanisms onto Darwin’s...

An e-mail scandal demonstrates that matters are uncertain. The issue is, however, politicized. No president should make deals in an environment like that. With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate-change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. "Climategate," exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate-change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen...

Don’t be daunted by the length. His comments on Palin and Climategate, replete with lies about how old the e-mails are, come within the first four minutes. (The Goracle’s never been good with guesstimates.) The left’s been breathing into a paper bag since last night over WaPo’s decision to run her op-ed, but Gore’s response here is comparatively restrained. Instead of grandstanding for his base by calling her a yokel or whatever, he sticks to his argument and declines to attack her personally. Presumably that’s because he’s a bit more politically savvy than his carbon-belching pals at Copenhagen and would...

As you probably know, on Wednesday the Washington Post published an op-ed by Sarah Palin critical of the Copenhagen climate summit called Copenhagen’s political science. But but before you cheer WaPo for their sudden interest in allowing conservative points of view, the same issue carried a rebuttal piece called Don’t let the climate doubters fool you. The writer is one Alan I. Leshner, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and executive publisher of the journal Science. Is it me, or is it only when a conservative writes an editorial does the WaPo provide an opposing...

At National Review Online, conservative curmudgeon John Derbyshire has weighed in on the Climategate scandal by encouraging conservatives not to jump on the anti-science bandwagon. I share his worry and find his advice is good so far as it goes; but I think Derbyshire’s defense of science might actually encourage the skepticism he wants to prevent. Most of the trouble comes from his invocation of the word “science,� and his claim that science has a magisterium.His article is called “Trust Science.� I’m not sure what that means. What is “science,� and how do we “trust� it? Imagine if someone said:...

David Letterman Warns The World: "We're all screwed!" Letterman wonders why young people don't demonstrate for the Global Warming Cause like they did against Vietnam. James Hansen mumbles.

Three Senators released a broadly-worded blueprint of a climate change and energy bill on Thursday afternoon that they believe can win the 60 votes needed to push the bill through next year. The proposal was timed to help persuade delegates to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen that the Senate is serious about passing a climate bill and not mired in a partisan morass. Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Joseph I. Lieberman, Independent of Connecticut, sent President Obama a letter on Thursday outlining their plan.