Sweden takes EU presidency, announces priorities
Sweden assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union Wednesday and immediately announced the nation’s top priorities: the economic crisis and the war on “global warming.” ...
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From Copenhagen to Hopenhagen
The ubiquitous “hope and change” theme Americans know, oh, so well — one that has become totally meaningless, a result of its overuse and disregard of economic, scientific, and...
“Unequivocal Warming”
In what might be the most anticlimactic study in history, the New York Times reports that the U.S. Global Change Research Program predicts hotter temperatures, an increase in heavy...
Estimate of Natural-gas Reserves Jumps 35 Percent
The Potential Gas Committee, a group of academics and industry specialists supported by the Colorado School of Mines, reports the largest increase in natural-gas reserves in its 44-year history....
Obama’s Proclamation of Gay Pride Month
Forgive us for being a bit late in reporting this, but this entire month has been dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. So dedicated by whom,...
U.S. Seeks Global Warming Deal with China
One of the signature issues of the Obama administration will be the hammering out of a replacement for the failed Kyoto accord on global warming. Talks brokered by the...
China and Pelosi Celebrate Anniversary of Tiananmen Square
While the Chinese government is busying itself with further cracking down on censorship of the Internet, television, and the printed word, human rights groups report that political dissidents —...
Tracking Your Digital Trail
Innocent-seeming questionnaires, tests, and surveys are increasingly being disseminated by government officials so that they have complete histories on every citizen. ...
Cap and Trade Passes House Committee
Climate-change legislation has now officially become part of Washington policymaking with the approval on May 21 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee of a new bill designed to...
Taking EPA Findings Under Advisement
Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House are issuing conflcting messages concerning greenhouse-gas emissions, and plans for regulating them, or not regulating them, in a bit of...
U.S., Russia “Reset” the Convergence Agenda
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met at the White House with President Barack Obama on May 7 and also met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, before going on...
“No Coal” Goal
The road to Copenhagen in December 2009, where the United Nations will attempt to come up with a successor to the Kyoto (global warming) Protocol, is already before us....
The High Cost of Cap and Trade
Cap-and-trade programs to control carbon-dioxide emissions are an unacceptably costly way to deal with the supposed problem of man-made global warming. ...
Obama Celebrates Earth Day in Iowa
Millions of Americans and others observed the 39th annual Earth Day on April 22 and President Barack Obama was no exception. The president traveled to Iowa to visit a...
EPA Declares Human Breath (CO2) a Pollutant
The EPA on April 17 proposed new regulations to control carbon dioxide (CO2) and five other “greenhouse gases” as “pollutants” under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act. While...