Ever since joining that elite club known as the U.S. Senate, Graham has been anything but a conservative. He was a member of the infamous Gang of 14 and a supporter of blanket amnesty for illegals (which earned him the moniker ‘Lindsey Graham-nesty’). Now, the faux Republican is teaming up with none other than John ‘F’n’ Kerry on C(r)ap & Trade. Here is an excerpt from their dual-penned article which appeared in the NY Times (h/t Michelle Malkin).

CONVENTIONAL wisdom suggests that the prospect of Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill soon is rapidly approaching zero. The divisions in our country on how to deal with climate change are deep. Many Democrats insist on tough new standards for curtailing the carbon emissions that cause global warming. Many Republicans remain concerned about the cost to Americans relative to the environmental benefit and are adamant about breaking our addiction to foreign sources of oil.

However, we refuse to accept the argument that the United States cannot lead the world in addressing global climate change. We are also convinced that we have found both a framework for climate legislation to pass Congress and the blueprint for a clean-energy future that will revitalize our economy, protect current jobs and create new ones, safeguard our national security and reduce pollution.

Our partnership represents a fresh attempt to find consensus that adheres to our core principles and leads to both a climate change solution and energy independence. It begins now, not months from now — with a road to 60 votes in the Senate.

It’s true that we come from different parts of the country and represent different constituencies and that we supported different presidential candidates in 2008. We even have different accents. But we speak with one voice in saying that the best way to make America stronger is to work together to address an urgent crisis facing the world.

Sickening.  

One wonders if the Senator is ignorant or simply out of touch with reality. Are we to believe he does not know about scientists who refute global warming? Is he unaware that global temperatures peaked over a decade ago? Are we to believe that a Republican Senator does not see reports from esteemed think tanks like the Heritage Foundation which consistently debunk global warming myths and also detail quite clearly how Cap & Trade will kill jobs and significantly inflate our energy bills, while having virtually no impact on global temperatures?

Senator Graham, I’m sad to say, has become a typical me-first politician. His aim is not to support conservatism, let alone his party, but only to further his own political career and personal gain. His betrayal on this issue is no less severe than Arlen Specter’s on the Porkulus Bill. Like Specter, Graham needs to be targeted and primaried out. The good people of South Carolina certainly deserve a far better conservative voice than this – and so do the rest of us.

Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!

Global warming alarmists want Americans to believe that humans are killing the planet. But Not Evil Just Wrong, a new documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, proves that the only threats to America (and the rest of the world) are the flawed science and sky-is-falling rhetoric of Al Gore and his allies in environmental extremism.

The film drives home the realities of that extremism. “Turn off your lights. Turn off your heat when you get cold. Turn off your air when you get hot,” one man on the street says. “And then think about that.”

Not Evil Just Wrong warns Americans that their jobs, modest lifestyles and dreams for their children are at stake. Industries that rely on fossil fuels will be crippled if the government imposes job-killing regulations on an economy already mired in recession. Small towns in the heartland, like Vevay, Ind., will become bastions of unemployment and poverty. Breadwinners like Tim McElhany in Vevay will lose their jobs — and will have to start borrowing money again just to buy bread for their families.

The damage that would be wrought is unjustified by the science. Not Evil Just Wrong exposes the deceptions that experts, politicians, educators and the media have been force-feeding the public for years. Man-made pollution is not melting the polar icecaps. The ocean will not rise 20 feet in a flash. And the only polar bears dying because of man are the ones who try to eat men.

McAleer and McElhinney debunk what for a time was the environmental movement’s most powerful weapon of disinformation, the infamous “hockey stick” graph that attributed a supposedly unique burst of warming in the 20th century to humans. They also shatter the myth that the hottest years in the United States were 1998 and 2006. The hottest year was 1934, and the hottest decade was the 1930s — when there were half as many people and no SUVs or jumbo jets.

But environmentalists like actor Ed Begley Jr. and Leo Murray of Plane Stupid, who appear in the film, won’t tell you that. Instead, Begley sheds phony tears for ex-cons who are offered “green” jobs, and Murray decries air travel as the modern world’s worst indulgence. Their hysterical claims have fooled many people into believing that carbon dioxide, an element that is essential to life, is poison.

Organizations like Greenpeace, whose excesses are roundly condemned in Not Evil Just Wrong by founding member Patrick Moore, persistently push the same kind of propaganda that prompted world leaders to ban DDT. They believed environmentalist Rachel Carson’s doomsday scenarios about the mosquito-killing chemical, and millions of children in the Third World may have been infected by malaria and died as a result.

The documentary notes that the World Health Organization lifted its ban on DDT in 2006, but Al Gore and his allies will not accept that verdict any more than they will accept the science that discounts theories about global warming. They are determined to blame humans for everything.

And here is the trailer for the film.

Al Gore, of course, rarely if ever takes questions when it comes to global warming. But Mr. McAleer had a chance to do just that the other day in Wisconsin, challenging him to respond to a report identifying 9 factual errors in his film ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ To no surprise, Gore dodged the question and McAleer had his microphone cut off.

Suffice it to say, this film could not come at a more appropriate time. The official premiere will be next Sunday, October 18th. If you wish to attend a screening, you can check the website for specific information.

Our friend Jim Poesl, who is running for Assembly in the 19th District, also pointed out to us at yesterday’s Conservative Leadership Breakfast that one screening will be held at the Knights of Columbus in Avenel. The screening will begin at 7:45 with a suggested donation of $10 per adult/$5 per child. The address is 109 Morrissey Avenue in Avenel (Tel: 732-734-0704). 

Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!

The former Governor was interviewed by the National Journal and was asked about, among other things, C(r)ap & Trade. Her answer shows she doesn’t know a ‘whit’ (sorry, couldn’t help it) about it.

I believe cap-and-trade can work. It worked with SO2 reduction. I understand carbon is a very different emission, but it worked there, and there were all the same kind of concerns evidenced in the beginning. As with most things, the devil’s in the details. Depending on where you set the levels, and how quickly people have to meet them, it can work without sending the economy into a tailspin.

I’ve documented some of the problems with C(r)ap & Trade here. The bottom line is C(r)ap & Trade amounts to a tax on just about everything produced in this economy and would negligibly impact global temperatures over the next 4 decades, particularly because nations like India and China won’t sign on.

So, nice try Governor but you are just way off-base on this one.

You can read the rest of the interview here where the former Gov touches on the healthcare debate, Obama and the current governor’s race. Of course, you can decide to put a cap on her emissions by deciding not to read it.

Cross-posted at Red County & Conservatives with Attitude!

Last week the House of Representatives approved HR 2454, the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” by a vote of 219 to 212. If the Senate agrees, this proposed new law will create a huge slush fund of billions of dollars by jacking up every gas and electric bill in America. The money would then be “redistributed” to selected businesses, unions and other groups who are “friends” of Obama and the Democrats.

The House almost rejected the bill when 45 Democrats with principle voted no. The bill passed only because eight unprincipled Republican Congressmen sold out to vote yes.

Three of those “traitors within the gates” are from New Jersey – Frank LoBiondo (Salem, Cumberland, Cape May Gloucester, and Atlantic counties), Chris Smith (Mercer, Burlington, Monmouth and Ocean counties), and Leonard Lance (Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties). All three were strong backers of Chris Christie for governor over Steve Lonegan during last month’s primary election.

Left-wing Democrat Henry Waxman of California introduced the bill as a 1,200-page proposed law just six weeks before it was brought to a vote. Hundreds of pages with special “earmarks” were later added to buy enough congressmen to win passage. One amendment of more than 300 pages was added at 3 a.m. the morning of the vote. Nobody knows exactly what is in it.

Supporters say these new taxes are needed to stop global warming. Ridiculous! The Earth has been warming, and cooling, for billions of years – long before we humans arrived. The sand on our New Jersey beaches was created when giant ice sheets ground up rocks from the Catskills and Poconos, and then melted during the global warming that began 12,000 years ago. Most real scientists who weren’t bought off with big government grants and contracts agree that storms on the surface of the sun (sunspots) cause climate change. We humans, including Noah, adapted to several global ice ages and global warmings with rising sea levels. Unlike woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, we can do it again.

But HR 2454 is not about science. It is about power, money and control. It would allow Obama and Congress to raise our taxes and pay off friends whenever they want, without getting voted out of office. H.R. 2454 will let unelected boards and commissions do their dirty work – just like in New Jersey.

To see how this works, dig out your old electric bills. Until the 1990s, when Governor Christie Todd Whitman and Republican majorities in the State Senate and Assembly brought their own version of HR 2454 to New Jersey, your electric bill only charged a fair price for the electricity you used.

Now our state Board of Public Utilities gives us 11 separate charges every month. Seven of them are hidden taxes that have nothing to do with the electricity you use. You are billed for “basic generation” and “transmission service” charges to generate the electricity and bring it to your neighborhood. You are also billed for “customer” and “distribution” charges to bring the electricity into your house.

The other seven charges are hidden government taxes that reward politicians and their friends. The “market transition” and “transition bond” make sure electric and gas companies make big profits on bad investments that lose money. Often, these bad, money-losing investments were only done to please politicians in the first place.

The “societal benefits charge” guarantees big profits to people who build solar panels and windmills, even though those devices are so inefficient, the token amounts of electricity they produce don’t even come close to covering the cost of making and installing them. It also gives free service to people (including illegal immigrants) who usually vote Democrat. The gas company does the same thing, but does not itemize this charge on your bill.

The societal benefits charge also pays for slick ad campaigns on TV, radio, and in our public schools – brainwashing us and our kids as to how great these programs are – and buying “friends” in the media.

The societal benefits charge alone went up almost 10 percent this year. But nobody noticed, and Republicans (other than Steve Lonegan) did nothing to make it an election issue.

Each of the five BPU members gets salary of $130,000 per year, generous pensions and health benefits, and free cars with free gas, insurance, and EZ Pass. Former Republican State Sen. Nick Asselta was appointed to the BPU after voting for key Democratic tax and spending hikes throughout his career.

With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

For more information visit www.libertyandprosperity.org or contact Somers Point attorney Seth Grossman at grossman@snip.net or (609) 927-7333. Starting July 11, Grossman’s talk radio program will be heard 8 to 9 a.m. Saturdays on 92.1 FM. No breakfast discussion Saturday, July 4. He and members of Liberty and Prosperity will march in Galloway parade at Smithville instead.

And this doesn’t even take into account how much cash AlGore will be awash in if this bill actually becomes law.

All the more reason to keep the heat on so this doesn’t pass the Senate.

Well, apparently, global warming isn’t just non-existent here in the Northeast, but it’s hardly rearing its  head in other northern parts of the U.S. Consider: 

• In Green Bay, Wisconsin on Saturday, the city saw an all-time record low of 52 degrees set. The previous low was 53 degrees way back in 1943.
• And in Dickinson, North Dakota snow fell in June for the first time in over 60 years.

Yet, Congressional Democrats remain poised to foist the job-killing, tax raising C(r)ap and Trade on us in the name of cooling the planet.

How much more evidence do we need to understand what a hoax this is?

THE rising number of fat people was yesterday blamed for global warming.

Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.

Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage.

Dr Phil Edwards, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler.”

Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a tonne more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one.

It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people.

The scientists say providing extra grub for them to guzzle adds to carbon emissions that heat up the world, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and killing rain forests.

The environmental impact of fat humans is made even worse because they are more likely to travel by car — another major cause of carbon emissions.

Battle

And researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say wealthy nations like the US and Britain are getting fatter by the decade.

Dr Phil Edwards said: “Food production accounts for about one fifth of greenhouse gases.

“We need to do a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness. It is a key factor in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change.

“It is time we took account of the amount we are eating.

“This is about over-consumption by the wealthy countries. And the world demand for meat is increasing to match that of Britain and America.

“It is also much easier to get in your car and pick up a pint of milk than to take a walk.”

The study by Dr Edwards and colleague Ian Roberts is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Dr Edwards went on: “We are not just pointing the finger at fat people. All populations are getting fatter and it has an impact on the environment.

“UK health surveys estimate fatness has increased from an average body mass index of 26 to 27 in the last ten years.

“That’s equivalent to about half a stone for every person.”

Anyone with a BMI above 25 is overweight, while more than 30 is obese.

A staggering 40 per cent of Americans are obese, among 300 million worldwide.

I don’t know about you but I think this makes me want to run to Mickey D’s and grab a Big Mac and some fries. Or maybe I’ll run to White Manna down the road from me and grab some really greasy grub. Better yet, I’ll save it for tomorrow’s lunch being that it is Earth Day and all. Who’s with me?

MmmmMmmm…

Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!

Looks like our future ‘carbon footprints’ will be outlined in ice and snow. Al Gore will not be happy. From Pravda.ru:

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.

Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth’s orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth’s ‘wobble’, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.

Additionally, the report takes head on Global Warming theory:

During the 1970s the famous American astronomer Carl Sagan and other scientists began promoting the theory that ‘greenhouse gasses’ such as carbon dioxide, or CO2, produced by human industries could lead to catastrophic global warming. Since the 1970s the theory of ‘anthropogenic global warming’ (AGW) has gradually become accepted as fact by most of the academic establishment, and their acceptance of AGW has inspired a global movement to encourage governments to make pivotal changes to prevent the worsening of AGW.

The central piece of evidence that is cited in support of the AGW theory is the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph which was presented by Al Gore in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” The ‘hockey stick’ graph shows an acute upward spike in global temperatures which began during the 1970s and continued through the winter of 2006/07. However, this warming trend was interrupted when the winter of 2007/8 delivered the deepest snow cover to the Northern Hemisphere since 1966 and the coldest temperatures since 2001. It now appears that the current Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008/09 will probably equal or surpass the winter of 2007/08 for both snow depth and cold temperatures.

The main flaw in the AGW theory is that its proponents focus on evidence from only the past one thousand years at most, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years — evidence which is essential for a true understanding of climatology. The data from paleoclimatology provides us with an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacials.

So, here we have more evidence that the Global Warming alarmists are simply wrong. The Earth has never been stagnant in terms of climate. It is ever-changing. The idea that we are responsible in any way for these changes, or that we can do anything about it, is ridiculous.

Yet, I’m sure the Global Warming zealots like Al Gore will march on with their radical agenda. An agenda that limits our freedom and damages our economy with things like grass mileage standards on lawnmowers, ‘cow taxes’ on farmers and restrictive, overbearing greenhouse-gas emission standards. And, unfortunately, they’re bound to get their way with this Congress and Barack Obama running things.

CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn’t impact his opinion. Myers, an American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, explained on CNN’s Dec. 18 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the whole idea is arrogant and mankind was in danger of dying from other natural events more so than global warming.

“You know, to think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant,” Myers said. “Mother Nature is so big, the world is so big, the oceans are so big – I think we’re going to die from a lack of fresh water or we’re going to die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure.”

Myers went on…

“But this is like, you know you said – in your career – my career has been 22 years long,” Myers said. “That’s a good career in TV, but talking about climate – it’s like having a car for three days and saying, ‘This is a great car.’ Well, yeah – it was for three days, but maybe in days five, six and seven it won’t be so good. And that’s what we’re doing here.”

“We have 100 years worth of data, not millions of years that the world’s been around,” Myers continued.

Another expert who appeared with Myers on the Dobbs show, Dr. Jay Lehr, put things into a more historical perspective.

“If we go back really, in recorded human history, in the 13th Century, we were probably 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than we are now and it was a very prosperous time for mankind,” Lehr said. “If go back to the Revolutionary War 300 years ago, it was very, very cold. We’ve been warming out of that cold spell from the Revolutionary War period and now we’re back into a cooling cycle.”

Lehr suggested the earth is presently entering a cooling cycle – a result of nature, not man. 

“The last 10 years have been quite cool,” Lehr continued. “And right now, I think we’re going into cooling rather than warming and that should be a much greater concern for humankind. But, all we can do is adapt. It is the sun that does it, not man.”

Whoa?! Did you get that? The SUN actually is the cause of all this? Imagine that!

Well, once again we have dissent regarding the global warming hoax among reasonable voices in the field. Yet, Al Gore and his minions are pushing to have us spend trillions of dollars we don’t have to ‘fix’ a problem that doesn’t exist. What’s worse is we have a Congress and President-elect prepared to follow him.

By the way, there were also several interesting links at the end of the linked article also worth checking out.

• Global Warming Censored: How The Major Networks Silence Debate On Climate Change
• Fire and Ice: Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming
• Climate of Bias

Don’t believe me? Well Obama and Al Gore say so – and the AP ran a story on it – so it must be true.  

“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,” he [Obama] said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. “We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way.”

Gore goes on…

“We need to start in January making significant changes,” Gore said in a recent telephone interview with The Associated Press. “This year coming up is the most important opportunity the world has ever had to make progress in really solving the climate crisis.”

Scientists are increasingly anxious, talking more often and more urgently about exceeding “tipping points.”

“We’re out of time,” Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. “Things are going extinct.”

Scientists are increasingly anxious? Well, apparently only those in Gore’s circle of friends because apparently these credible scientists must all be frauds (Hat tip to Conservatives with Attitude!).

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” – Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” – Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” – Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?” – Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” – Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” – Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” – Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” – Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata.

But what is the global warming alarmists’ solution to stopping this pending environmental catastrophe, you might ask?

Obama is stacking his Cabinet and inner circle with advocates who have pushed for deep mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas pollution and even with government officials who have achieved results at the local level.

The President-elect has said that one of the first things he will do when he gets to Washington is grant California and other states permission to control car tailpipe emissions, something the Bush administration denied.

And though congressional action may take time, the incoming Congress will be more inclined to act on global warming. In the House, liberal California Democrat Henry Waxman’s unseating of Michigan Rep. John Dingell – a staunch defender of Detroit automakers – as head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was a sign that global warming will be on the fast track.

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., vowed to push two global warming bills starting in January: one to promote energy efficiency as an economic stimulus and the other to create a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from utilities. “The time is now,” she wrote in a Dec. 8 letter to Obama.

Sounds reasonable, right? It’s the least we can do you might think. Just stop spewing so much of that bad old CO2 stuff – you know that pesky gas that comes from things like trees and plants - into the air and everything will be just dandy. And I’m sure it won’t affect our economy much, right?

Well, wrong.

Most econometric studies agree that restricting greenhouse-gas emissions would slow our already sluggish economy.

A study by the National Association of Manufacturers projected that emissions caps similar to those rejected earlier this year by the U.S. Senate calling for a 63-percent cut in emissions by 2050, would reduce U.S. gross domestic product by up to $269 billion and cost 850,000 jobs by 2014.

The Heritage Foundation estimated such restrictions would result in cumulative GDP losses of up to $4.8 trillion and employment losses of more than 500,000 a year by 2030.

Other studies suggest smaller economic costs: Duke University’s Nicholas Institute estimates a GDP loss of $245 billion by 2030 while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates a GDP drop of $238 billion to $983 billion.

Sharp emissions restrictions would also push the costs of energy and other consumer products higher. According to a study conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the restrictions could raise gasoline prices 29 percent, electricity prices 55 percent and natural-gas prices 15 percent by 2015.

Further…

And it appears that all this economic pain would be an utterly meaningless gesture. Patrick Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists, who is now with the Cato Institute, says reducing U.S. emissions 63 percent would prevent a mere 0.013 degrees Celsius in warming. With emissions from China, India and other developing nations growing at breakneck speed, even this modest benefit would be completely erased.

In the meantime, there’s just one other little thing. Temeratures are actually starting to cool.

Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government’s machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.

Yes, you see cooling actually means warming. Got that?

Well, I don’t know about you but I think I won’t be suckered in by all this fear-mongering and global warming hot air. I’d much prefer that we let Mother Nature do her thing and not interfere – and not have politicians sticking their hands in our pockets and lowering our standard of living all in the name of some made-up environmental crisis.

EPA Moves To Regulate Our Entire Way Of Life

The EPA is asking for public comments on its intention to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, something the Act was never designed to do.  We need your voice to be heard.

Over the past year, AFP has been warning you about global warming alarmism and the environmental political correctness that it has spawned.  One of the greatest dangers this alarmism presents is the continued rise of unelected bureaucrats and their attempts to grab power from the people.  The proposed regulation by the EPA is a clear example of the regulations this panic will produce.

After the Senate rejected a plan to regulate greenhouse gases, the EPA decided to go ahead and do it anyway.  The extent of their plan is truly terrifying.  If this proposal becomes law, 33 programs within the EPA would be empowered to, among other things:

•    Impose Grass Mileage Standards for Home Lawnmowers
•    Put Speed Limiters on the Commercial Trucking Fleet
•    List Large Single-Family Homes as Carbon-Polluters
•    Require Carbon Permits for Retail, Restaurant, Hotel and School Construction

Click here to read AFP’s Talking Points

We need your help to tell the EPA this is unacceptable.  Environmentalists will be stuffing the comment box with their opinion; we need you to make your voice heard.