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Green Groups Urge Congress To Save The Aspen Skier
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 9/13/2011 | Sean Higgins

Posted on 09/13/2011 1:27:49 PM PDT by Slyscribe

ou’ve probably already heard about the various threats caused by global warming: melting glaciers, extreme weather disturbances and endangering the habitat of the polar bear. Tomorrow, the Natural Resources Defense Council will add another concern to the list: the endangered winter sports fan.

As the NRDC put it in a press release yesterday:

Some of the top names in winter sports are going to the U.S. Capitol Thursday to ask lawmakers to stop efforts in Congress to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aspensociety; climate; elite; environment; epa; savetheheinies; skiing; sovietkrautistan

1 posted on 09/13/2011 1:28:00 PM PDT by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe

Just ban volcanoes. Special ban on the Yellowstone supervolcano.


2 posted on 09/13/2011 1:31:33 PM PDT by Sundog (When Hollywood defines reality there is no hope for Democracy.)
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To: Slyscribe

As these skiers and snowboarders continually jet to and from exclusive resorts in the Alps and the Rockies, they must leave a carbon footprint the size of a Yeti wearing snowshoes.


3 posted on 09/13/2011 1:37:47 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss ( Obama: "I've created more jobs in soup kitchens than anyone since Jimmy Carter")
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To: Slyscribe

Spoiled rich, jet set ski bums, headed for Washington.

Not a brain in their heads. Like anything Congress can do will stop anything Mother nature decides on. Piss ants.


4 posted on 09/13/2011 1:44:09 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Slyscribe

Come 2012 I think we will need to add SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS to the endangered species act and ban them from any government authority for the next 50 years.


5 posted on 09/13/2011 2:17:16 PM PDT by spawn44 (spawn44)
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To: Slyscribe

Their cities on the Rockies were exclusive Obama campaign sign farms before the last general election.


6 posted on 09/13/2011 2:35:49 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), Army NG, '89-' 96)
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To: Meet the New Boss

There was more snow in the Rockies last year than we knew what to do with...I skiied till the end of April...skinnin and skiin..nothing finer...


7 posted on 09/13/2011 2:36:45 PM PDT by montomike (Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
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Wait a minute. It thought the official position now was that AGW causes more snow, extra water in the atmosphere and all.


8 posted on 09/13/2011 7:19:00 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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