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London Couples who have more than two children are being irresponsible by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the Government’s green adviser has said.

Heading into Gaza A slow line enters Gaza. The brigade commander has a factory. The regiment commander is an engineer. The company commander is a science teacher. The platoon commander is in the standing army. The company sergeant sells holy books. The sergeant is something of a carpenter. The squad commander is presently unemployed. The private is a retiree. But they’re all excellent soldiers Marching in a slow line, in the tranquil night. Entering enemy territory Without fear. To fight for their nation Like their parents did for them. The brigade commander has a back-ache. The regiment commander has high...

Statement of Congressman Ron Paul United States House of Representatives Statement on H Res 34, Recognizing Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza, Reaffirming the United States strong support for Israel, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process January 9, 2008 Madame Speaker, I strongly oppose H. Res. 34, which was rushed to the floor with almost no prior notice and without consideration by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution clearly takes one side in a conflict that has nothing to do with the United States or US interests. I am concerned that the weapons currently being used...

A government scientist has warned that climate change, and specifically the rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is pushing up toxins and lowering nutrients in eucalyptus leaves. Dr Dan Lunney, of the New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change, said the trend would force koalas out of trees and on to the ground to search for food, putting them in danger. "What currently may be good koala habitats will become very marginal habitats," he said. "This means koalas have to change trees more often to get to the leaves they need. "As koalas change trees they...

Written by Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia Today, our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the retreat of glaciers and the decrease of the polar ice caps; the increase of the sea level and the flooding of coastal areas, where approximately 60% of the world population live; the increase in the processes of desertification and the decrease of fresh water sources; a higher frequency in natural disasters that the communities of the earth suffer;...

European and American statists, including activist NGOs like the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), assert that the moderate climate warming that occurred until 2002 is a man-made catastrophe, and have embraced the dystopian fantasy that coercive policies for the elimination of fossil fuel production and usage can prevent or turn back the current warming cycle. They have, thus, made the "global warming planetary emergency" into the central plank of their ongoing campaigns for more centralized government. Leftist commentator, Alexander Cockburn, put it this way: “This turn to climate catastrophism is tied into the decline of the left, and the decline of...

The climate orthodoxy of carbon hysteria has never understood the intricacies of causative interaction in Earth's climate. Led by fanatics such as James Hansen and Al Gore, the orthodoxy decided early on to assign responsibility for "climate change" to human generated CO2. Orthodoxers reduced the complex system of climate to a single parameter--CO2--to make their job easier. Unfortunately, the orthodoxy failed to recruit (bribe and cudgel) large numbers of mathematically and scientifically trained men and women who remain curious about the underlying complexity of climate. Curious enough to continue studying climate as a multi-causative system. The distribution of sunlight, rather...

Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of Florida Background and Summary In October 2008, the Governor’s Action Team on Energy and Climate Change released a draft version of its 14-month effort of developing an Action Plan aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Florida. The impetus behind the creation of the Action Team and the development of the Action Plan grew out of a summit on climate change (“Serve to Preserve: A Florida Summit on Global Climate Change”) hosted by Governor Crist in July of 2007. This event “gathered leaders of...

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My ultra-liberal parents just voted early and voted for McCain! They have NEVER, EVER, EVER VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN!!!

Palin will name Tom Selleck for VP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25, 2007 CONTACT: Erin Isaac (850) 488-5394 Erin.Isaac@myflorida.com Governor Crist Announces Theodore Roosevelt IV as Keynote Speaker at Florida Summit on Global Climate Change -- Other keynote speakers to include California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- TALLAHASSEE – Governor Charlie Crist today announced Theodore Roosevelt IV as a keynote speaker at the Serve to Preserve Florida Summit on Global Climate Change. Last week, Governor Crist announced California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as other keynote speakers. “It is truly a privilege to announce that one of our nation’s foremost...

Last week’s legal victory for Seminole Electric over state regulators was a slam dunk, a review of the unanimous Fifth District Court of Appeals decision shows. The judges said Friday that the denial by Michael Sole, the state Department of Environmental Protection secretary, of a permit to expand the Palatka coal-fired power plant was unfounded. And the court ordered Sole to issue the permit, called a site certification. “Despite lengthy factual discussion preceding our analysis, the resolution of this case is quite simple,” the court’s ruling says. “In short, the (DEP) secretary had no legal basis to deny certification of...

DALLAS -- Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest oil-and-gas company, came out swinging Wednesday against the environmental movement, arguing the science of climate change is far from settled and that his company views it as its "corporate social responsibility" to continue to supply the world with fossil fuels. Speaking to reporters after the annual meeting of shareholders, at which much-publicized proposals by the Rockefeller family calling for new investment in renewable energy received little support, Mr. Tillerson also said he expects little delay in the $8-billion Kearl oilsands project in Alberta, after a...

This is huge. I'm not sure how often this happens, but an EPA admistrator basically denied a permit for a power plant to continue to operate. A Title V permit allows a facility to emit pollution under certain conditions. Stephen L. Johnson of the EPA basically accepted the arguements put forth by the Sierra Club. For the reasons set forth above, and pucsuaut to section 505(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act, I grant in part and deny in part the petition of the Sierra Club requesting the Admistratox to object to issuance of the Title V p e d t...

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I'm going on vacation in Guatemala very soon. I know I can't carry a firearm, but I do want to at least carry a knife. I want it to be small and concealable. I carry the swiss trekker in a pouch currently or a Sykes-Fairbairn dagger in my boot. I don't want to take the dagger, but I might. I was hoping that some of you could help me choose a folder or a fixed blade.

This Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) provides a comprehensive assessment of the physical science of climate change and continues to broaden the view of that science, following on from previous Working Group I assessments. The results presented here are based on the extensive scientific literature that has become available since completion of the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report, together with expanded data sets, new analyses, and more sophisticated climate modelling capabilities. This report has been prepared in accordance with rules and procedures established by the IPCC and used for previous assessment reports. The report outline...

Outgoing Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R) administration is recommending in a draft “white paper” that the state begin implementing carbon constraints in the near future, setting the stage for major policy battles over climate change emissions in a key regional and presidential-election battleground state. Observers say action by Florida to address carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could eventually help advance the issue throughout the country because of the state’s profile in national politics, its large congressional delegation, and its growing Republican majority. It is becoming even more of a “red” state, which would “buck the traditional wisdom” that red states spurn...

If the world's population was reduced to 100, it would look something like this.... The Miniature Earth