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Climate Change: The 50 to 1 Video Project

By Steve McGough / September 16, 2013 /

A video-based activist in Australia has started a new project reviewing the costs and benefits of the carbon credit schemes popping up around the world. Since he’s from Oz, a country that implemented a carbon tax in July 2012, Topher Field takes a look at the cost of the program as compared to the benefits in…

The Supreme Court and climate change

By SoundOffSister / April 16, 2011 /

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of American Electric Power v. Connecticut. It is too bad that the Court’s proceedings aren’t televised as the debate here should be lively. First, you need to know the background.

Climategate hits the streets – Video Al Gore confronted

By Jim Vicevich / December 4, 2009 /

The Global Warming Zealots continue to dismiss the East Anglia e-mails as an anomaly … in other words “fake but accurate” … but the flood gates have opened and the GW ship is taking on water faster than the sea levels are rising, which is not hard, may I say. The science is proper and…

Kill the messenger – Boxer ignores content of Climategate e-mails

By Dave in EH / December 3, 2009 /

Apparently, the culture of “moral equivalency” reaches even into the Senate. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) thinks the real tragedy and crime of Climategate is not the content within the e-mails, rather the way they were accessed and released. She wants Congress to investigate the hacker.

End to Jeep Wrangler soft-tops in California?

By Steve McGough / October 19, 2009 /

New environmental regulations to be implemented in California would require special auto glass to reflect heat and reduce the need for air-conditioning. The law may require Chrysler to stop selling soft-top Wranglers and only offer the hard top, full-glass version of the popular Jeep. The regulations could also limit cell phone, GPS and other radio…

Gore compares global warming battle to fighting Nazis

By Steve McGough / July 7, 2009 /

The Goreacle is a strange duck. For some reason, he’s equating himself to Winston Churchill trying to convince the world the Nazis were out-of-control. There is a big difference between the Nazis tearing across Europe and, well, the normal warming and cooling of the planet.

Is today “float a stupid government idea” day?

By Steve McGough / May 27, 2009 /

Two stories from the news wire today just have me totally baffled. I’m not always thinking “we’re doomed”, but if the Obama administration is considering a national sales tax of 10 percent or more, and has a dork working for him who thinks painting all the roofs in the world white will help stop global…

New CAFE standards – less safe, more expensive cars

By Jim Vicevich / May 19, 2009 /

Hey, who could ask for anything more?  

Think Progress notes Chipotle’s “climate change” reference, ignores “government regulations” in annual report

By Steve McGough / March 4, 2014 /

When a company files an annual report with the SEC, they cover every possibility to ensure they will not be sued by investors. You know … “prior results are not an indicator of future earnings.” But since Chipotle mentioned climate change in their annual report, Think Progress felt the need to inform the world we might…

Australia wakes up – “Socialism masquerading as environmentalism”

By Steve McGough / November 12, 2013 /

You may have not heard conservatives in Australia won elections in Oz three months ago on promises by soon-to-be Prime Minister Tony Abbot would start dismantling “green initiatives” that had resulted in job losses and a stagnant economy. The Liberal Party (pretty much conservative) has gotten to work.