Articles tagged with: nyt

‘Green’ Mile High Music Fest Anything But
Posted in Lifestyle on 21 August 2008

A Mile HIgh Music Festival recently held in Colorado was billed as being green, but was anything but green.  Drinks were sold in recyclable plastic cups, but those who attended the event simply threw them to the ground without recycling them.  Those working the recycling centers at the event were reduced to just picking up [...]

South Carolina Shuts Down Environmentalists’ Nuclear Complaint
Posted in Environmentalists on 13 August 2008

South Carolina regulators have allowed the construction of a nuclear power plant to continue despite the best efforts of an environmentalist group to stop it, according to this Charlotte Observer article.  Having no environmental reasons for the disruption, Friends of the Earth and NCWarn filed petitions last month to halt construction because the final design [...]

Western U.S. Governors Form Global Warming Alliance
Posted in Government Intervention on 1 August 2008

Liberal governors Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Bill Richardson of New Mexico in addition to Republican-in-name-only Arnold Schwarzenegger are working together to form a group called the Western Climate Initiatives to lower emissions boost renewable energy production.  I’m all for this, of course, as long as not one cent of tax dollars is used to [...]

Businesses Now Fighting Back against South Africa Carbon Tax
Posted in Carbon Tax on 31 July 2008

Just two days after I posted an article on the prospect of South Africa enacting a carbon tax, businesses in the country are already fighting back.  Companies in the country say that they’re already experiencing difficulty in the market due to increasing energy costs and, if those expenditures didn’t already force them to become more [...]

Technology to Scrub CO2 from Atmosphere Opposed by Environmentalists
Posted in Conspiracy on 29 July 2008

(H/T:  Paul).  New technology to scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, all in an effort to save the world, is being opposed by - surprise, surprise - environmentalists.  Although the technology to pull carbon from the air to reduce the overall carbon dioxide greenhouse gas footprint in the atmosphere - the primary gas that is [...]

Gore Admits ‘Some Effect’ On Environment
Posted in Al Gore on 23 July 2008

While I certainly don’t agree with just about anything coming from PETA, I found this article interesting.  Gore apparently admitted during a blogging conference that he has had some effect on the environment by continuing to eat meat which, according to this PETA article, is more harmful than all cars, trucks, SUVs and planes combined.  [...]

Environmentalists Blame Midwest Floods on Global Warming
Posted in Weather on 15 June 2008

Now that global warming can cause anything from blizzards to desert heat, the environmentalists have taken it upon themselves to declare the midwest floods on global warming, but they fail miserably.  I remember the flood of 1993 when the Mississippi River overflowed its banks.  1993 had a period of cooling because of the eruption of [...]

10 Questions Al Gore Can’t Answer
Posted in Al Gore on 14 June 2008

From “why is Mars warming too” to “are you sure humans are the cause of global warming”, they’re all here.  But the debate is over, you see, so don’t expect Gore to answer any of these questions anytime soon.  
Source: stevehull.wordpress.com

Global Warming Bill is a Hostile Take-Over Bid for Government
Posted in Conspiracy on 8 June 2008

The recently defeated Lieberman-Warner global warming bill in the U.S. Senate was a clear indication that the environmentalists are pushing to take over the government and institute a form of socialism based on high taxes and government regulations over all aspects of our lives having to do anything with energy.  
Source: thenma.org

James Hansen’s Carbon Tax Proposal
Posted in Carbon Tax on 6 June 2008

Now that the Republicans have defeated the global warming bill in the U.S. Senate, James Hansen has come out of hiding to provide details on his carbon tax proposal.  To make a long story short, Hansen thinks people should be taxed based on the carbon content of fuels but have the money returned to them [...]