Source: www.rnntv.com

The Tompkins County Legislature voted to endorse a federal carbon tax program.  The resolution supports a federal tax-and-refund system (yes, those refunds really do work) but not a secondary provision to endorse a cap-and-auction plan in the event a federal tax-and-refund system fails to materialize.
Source: www.theithacajournal.com

The city of New York plans to spend $2.3 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to this Yahoo News article.  The spending plan, aimed at government buildings only, will focus on replacing heating and cooling system and repairing methane leaks at water treatment plants to replacing street lights and buying more fuel-efficient cars.  It [...]

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During last July’s Live Earth concerts held simultaneously in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg, Al Gore tried to harness the promotional power of environmentally inclined rock stars like Madonna, The Police and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to raise global awareness of “a climate in crisis”. [...]

I set out on a journey to see if the mainstream press takes an active role in shoving the skeptical view of the global warming hoax under the rug. Using Google News, some search algorithms and a few hours of my time, I came up with a rather interesting revelation.
My first task was quite [...]

In more bad news for global warming activists everywhere, the polar bear population has increased 40% since 1974 and are in no threat of extinction as many on the environmental left would have you believe, according to the New York Post. Hurricanes are already off the list of global warming images. Can polar [...]

Friends of the Earth Action, an environmental group, has officially endorsed Barack Hussein Obama because of his stance on the gas tax holiday. While both Senators Hillary Clinton (D., New York) and John McCain (R., Arizona) both support a temporary reprieve on the federal gas tax, [...]

The Heritage Foundation writes an interesting tongue-in-cheek article today comparing the difference between Al Gore and the scientists of the world. In Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, he states that the debate over global warming is over and a consensus has been reached. Inconveniently for the former Vice President, the Washington Post, the [...]

The New York Times has taken a reporting stance against the methods used to curb carbon emissions, stating that the world’s economies can’t expand and at the same time cut carbon emissions. For a typically left-leaning newspaper, I’m proud of the Times for reporting on what [...]

During Dr. Hayden’s recent visit to New York, he saw billboards foretelling the doom and gloom of global warming. The cost of this propaganda? $700,000. There are some deep pockets involved with the global warming crowd and they are spending that cash to convince you [...]