Time once again for your weekly global warming myth round-up, courtesy of Canadian site The Daily Bayonet. Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll find this week:
The NAACP is honoring Al Gore.
Speaking of Gore, there’s a carbon trade swindle going on behind him.
Chris Horner introduced as a climate criminal. Horner is a skeptic, of course.
Is the IPCC just making stuff up?
Eco-terrorism. It’s Al Gore-approved.
Problems with ethanol are now being acknowledged.
The U.S. Navy defeats some environmentalists.
And an ozone hole has opened up. But didn’t we …

Al Gore had an editorial piece printed in the New York times today.  It’s full of typical environmentalist talking points but only half of the truth is provided.  Follow along as I share my comments (in bold) under each of Gore’s paragraphs (in italics) so help break down the truth from the hyperbole.  While I’ll only excerpt parts of the opinion piece, the entire op-ed can be read by following the link at the bottom of this post.
[W]e…must make…an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing …

Back when the news broke about rising food prices due, in part, to ethanol production to save the planet from global warming, I mentioned that the poor was the hardest hit.  Today, the MidKnight Review blog explores some other issues where the poor may be the hardest hit in the struggle to curtail global warming.  With many around the globe struggling just to feed themselves and their families each day, how can they react to the price of goods that are eco-friendly?  Green homes cost more than traditional homes.  Green …

This topic was discussed ad nauseum earlier this year but it’s worth reminding people that Barack Obama hasn’t given up on using biofuels to help solve the global warming crisis.  From this article over at the Rogers Institute, even using 6% of produced food in ethanol will require doubling agriculture production to maintain current output.  With Gore recently blaming global warming on population growth at his speech in Cambridge, it’s only fair that he and other global warming activists understand that using food for energy will only make climate change …

Global warming has been blamed on hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro.  The food and oil crises are causing significant hurdles to achieving the 10-year Brussels Programme of Action.  While the U.N. is quick to blame food shortages on rising oil prices, let’s not forget that the great ethanol bust caused rice, corn and wheat prices to skyrocket earlier this year.  So, yes, the U.N. is correct:  climate change has hurt the fight against poverty.  But not in the way they describe.
Read More: www.climate-l.org

Al Gore, speaking today with Wangari Maathai, said the U.S. must be a leader in stopping global deforestation to fight global poverty, climate change and international instability.  From the article:
“We have to start reducing our pollution and substituting renewable sources of energy,” Gore said.”But, we also have to provide the means for stopping deforestation. One of the most effective things we can …

Nitrogen, an odorless and colorless gas found in 80% of the atmosphere is now the focus of climate change scientists who think it’s another component in climate change.  The 80% naturally-occurring atmospheric nitrogen isn’t the problem, according to the article.  It’s the 1% reactive nitrogen found in the 80% atmospheric concentration that’s going to affect the climate.  Reactive nitrogen bonds with other elements to form smog, create dead zones in oceans and cause cancer.  And humans have doubled the amount of reactive nitrogen in the atmosphere.  Of course, nitrogen is …

After having read an article over at THBarb yesterday, I was inspired by a line or two there that made sense to me.  The decisions around anthropogenic global warming have been made for us.
With many other social factors - and that’s what global warming is, folks, a social factor - liberals have demanded that humans have a choice.  The people chose a Democrat-controlled Congress in 2006, and liberals were elated, although their approval rating plunged to nine percent most recently.  The people are going to choose a Democrat President later …

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law today legislation to drop all state taxes on cellulosic biofuels.  The plan, which also requires heating oil and diesel to be 2% biofuel by 2010, would provide incentives to industries that produce cellulosic ethanol.  The problem is, according to this Cato Institute article, that there is no cellulosic ethanol industry at this time and the costs associated with producing ethanol from biomass is five times the cost of producing corn-based ethanol.  So expect the new fuels, if industry shows an interest in that …

More news is out about the debacle that is ethanol-based biofuel, and it’s not good.  A recent report found that 75% of the increase in food prices between 2002 and 2008 can be attributed to biofuel production.  Food prices have soared 140% during this time.  Food for thought for the environmentalists, I suppose.
Read More: fromtheduke.blogspot.com