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Beware the church of climate alarm As the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, an economist, anti-totalitarian and climate change sceptic, prepares to take up the rotating presidency of the European Union next year, climate alarmists are doing their best to traduce him. The New York Times opened a profile of Klaus, 67, this week with a quote from a 1980s communist secret agent's report, claiming he behaves like a "rejected genius", and asserts there is "palpable fear" he will "embarrass" the EU. But the real fear driving climate alarmists wild is that a more rational approach to the fundamentalist religion of global warming may be in the ascendancy - whether in the parliamentary offices of the world's largest trading bloc or in the living rooms of Blacktown. As the global financial crisis takes hold, perhaps people are starting to wonder whether the so-called precautionary principle, which would have us accept enormous new taxes in the guise of an emissions trading scheme and curtail economic growth, is justified, based on what we actually know about climate. One of Australia's leading enviro-sceptics, the geologist and University of Adelaide professor Ian Plimer, 62, says he has noticed audiences becoming more receptive to his message that climate change has always occurred and there is nothing we can do to stop it. http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/miranda-devine/beware-the-church-of-climate-a- larm/2008/11/26/1227491635989.html |
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 30, 2006 8:21 am)
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Replying to: elroy5 (Nov 28, 2008 10:03 pm)  
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or...ummm...Sasquatches. Why are people still going after these creatures? Is it like these little monkeys that they find in 2008 after searching for 50 years in the Amazon...and then all of a sudden it's...Wow! We found the lost tiny orange monkey Trylinka-bots! Is that what these Sasquatch hunters are morphing themselves in to? So they can say they found the first body of a Sasquatch and then everyone will throw cash at them or something? There are groups that go out, camp, bring walkie-talkies and earnestly search for these hunched-over man-like gorilla-like beings.
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Nov 29, 2008 9:57 am) 
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they find large footprints but no...Sasquatch poop. Indulge yourself to think about thoughts like that for a few seconds. 
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Efforts to support global climate-change falls: Poll Peter O'Neil, Europe Correspondent, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, November 27, 2008 PARIS - There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to findings of a poll of 12,000 citizens in 11 countries, including Canada. Results of the poll were released this week in advance of the start of a major international conference in Poland where delegates are considering steps toward a new international climate-change treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. There already are reports emerging that some countries, such as coal-dependent Poland, are pushing for special treatment to avoid making major commitments to slash carbon emissions during a global economic downturn. Less than half of those surveyed, or 47 per cent, said they were prepared to make personal lifestyle changes to reduce carbon emissions, down from 58 per cent last year. Only 37 per cent said they were willing to spend "extra time" on the effort, an eight-point drop. And only one in five respondents - or 20 per cent - said they'd spend extra money to reduce climate change. That's down from 28 per cent a year ago. The Canadian results, from a poll of 1,000 respondents conducted in September, were virtually identical to the overall figures. There are no comparative figures for Canada because Canadians weren't included in the global study in 2007. http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=f0a1687c-decd-4c72-9d0e-7e6- dd92d4ebe
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 29, 2008 12:22 pm) The new Obama regime should be crafting ways to put them into a special minority group for full exploitation !!!! AKA raise only this minority groups taxation !!!
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Replying to: ruking1 (Nov 29, 2008 12:29 pm)
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 29, 2008 12:45 pm) Don't laugh, in Australia some of the more radical GW cultists have proposed requiring a permit to drive ANY vehicle outside of the city you live in. They also propose taxing vacations taken by car. But I'm sure it's for our own good. |
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