Earth Day and the Great “Sustainability” Lie
April 17, 2012 by Alan Berkelhammer
Filed under Agenda 21/Sustainable Dev., Environment, Global Warming, Hot Topics
Americans are paying the hangman for the rope.
It is estimated that since the origin of the global warming hoax in the late 1980s, Americans have seen $50 billion of their dollars thrown down the climate change rat hole.
In a January CNSnews commentary, Elizabeth Harrington noted that “A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that the United States (has been) funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ authority on alleged man-made global warming, with $31.1 million since 2001, nearly half of the panel’s annual budget.”
“In a Nov. 17, 2011 report, ‘International Climate Change Assessments: Federal Agencies Should Improve Reporting and Oversight of U.S. Funding’, the GAO found that the State Department provided $19 million for administrative and other expenses, while the United States Global Change Research Program provided $12.1 million in technical support through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSP), averaging an annual $3.1 million to the IPCC over 10 years—$31.1 million so far.” Continue reading on canadafreepress.com.
Who Needs Gas?
April 8, 2012 by Alan Berkelhammer
Filed under Economy, Environment, Global Warming
Attribution: Clayton Liotta, dickmorris.com
Global Sustainability: A Workbook for Children
April 2, 2012 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Economy, Environment, Global Warming, Hot Topics
For those of you who are not familiar with Agenda 21 and its global sustainability goals or think that it is a conspiracy promulgated by folks wearing tinfoil hats there is now available a Children’s Workbook designed to teach students all about Agenda 21 and how it can be implemented locally in all communities as well as promoting the United States as a world leader in global governance and regulation. The workbook is being used as a tool to ready our children for the next Agenda 21 summit, Road-to-Rio +20, scheduled for May, 2012.
Surf through the entire workbook…and see if it is being used your children or grandchildren’s classrooms.
Children’s Road to Rio +20 Online Workbook (2011-2012) http://www.scribd.com/doc/85142733/Road-to-Rio-20-Workbook (Takes a few seconds to appear on your screen)
Obama Presidency by the Numbers
October 4, 2011 by Alan Berkelhammer
Filed under Defense, Economy, Environment, Executive Branch, Global Warming, Healthcare, Immigration, National Info
Barack Obama: “If I don’t have this done in 3 years, then it’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
The Bore-a-Thon (24 Hours of Al Gore)
September 20, 2011 by Alan Berkelhammer
Filed under Environment, Global Warming, Local Info
Day-long Internet slide show fails to excite the planet
Al Gore's the End Nigh by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
I had a post last Tuesday, in anticipation of this monumental event. I knew the whole world would be watching. I was planning to view it as well, but at the eleventh hour I decided that in the interest of reducing global warming and my strong desire to save our planet, our beloved Mother Earth, I would forgo my selfishness.
So it was with with much sadness that I turned off my TV in order to save electricity and thereby reduce my local utility’s, carbon footprint. You see, Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) generates it’s power from dirty coal. But not to worry, it’s new facility, a wood burning, excuse me, biomass plant is under construction. And you may rest easy, because this wood burner must really be high tech because it’s not even called a power plant. It’s the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center. Too bad the name Progress Energy is already taken. Back to Al’s Bore-a-Thon. The Washington Times had a great editorial about it which you may read here
The Earth Is Cooling-How Inconvenient for Global Warming!
July 1, 2011 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Global Warming, Hot Topics
How inconvenient for Al Gore-and all the preudo-scientists!
“Reports of imminent climatic catastrophes are turning out to be rather anticlimactic. That’s because rather than heating up to life-threatening levels, new scientific findings indicate it’s more likely the Earth will cool in coming years. That’s bad news for a global-warming industry heavily invested in a sultry forecast.
Cornelis de Jager, a solar physicist from the Netherlands and former secretary-general of the International Astronomical Union, announced that the sun is about to enter a period of extremely low sunspot activity, which historically is associated with cooling trends. Backed by other scientists, he predicted the “grand solar minimum” is expected to begin around 2020 and last until 2100.”
Read more..
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/27/an-inconvenient-cooling/
Phone Conference about Agenda 21: The UN Plan To Destroy Property Rights
June 8, 2011 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Agenda 21/Sustainable Dev., Environment, Global Warming, Hot Topics, Property Rights
Plan to be part of this very informative phone conference presented by the the International Society for Individual Liberty’s (ISIL). Agenda 21 is a global plan to control the citizens of the United States through the intimidation of “green” initiatives. By exploiting the fear factor from “climate change” the United Nations plans to ultimately diminish the economic and political power of the United States thereby allowing other countries to dictate our national policies. It is imperative that citizens inform themselves about Agenda 21.
“Agenda 21 is the UN plan for total government control of your car, home, food, and just about every other aspect of your life – all in the name of “sustainability” and “smart growth.” The ultimate goal is to eliminate virtually all private cars and single family homes . . . concentrate people in high-density housing with no privacy and total control . . . and “re-wild” much of the civilized world by moving people out and moving predators in.
If that sounds like a socialist fantasy, think again. Agenda 21 has been endorsed to leaders throughout the world, including former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, and it is being implemented now in cities and towns throughout the world. In the U.S., cabinet level secretaries are dedicated to implementing Agenda 21 . . . 1,200 cities have signed on (City of Gainesville AND Alachua County included) . . . “smart growth” is being taught in most U.S. schools and colleges . . . and redevelopment agencies are transferring tax monies from road and suburban improvement to mandated high-density housing. A long-list of NGOs and private consulting organizations – including ICLEI (the International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives) — are racking in tax money helping communities implement this agenda.”
You are Cordially Invited to join Advocates of Liberty from throughout the U.S. and the world for next World Liberty Phone Conference!
Agenda 21: The UN Plan To DestroyYour Property Rights . . .Now being implemented in cities throughout the world.
Featuring Heather Gass, realtor founder of the East Bay Tea Party
Wednesday, June 15, 8:00 – 9:00 Eastern Standard Time
Sign up for the phone conference now by E-Mailing to ISIL@isil.org
Use “ISIL 6-15 Phone Seminar”on your email Subject Line
George Soros: America’s Nemesis
April 4, 2011 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Economy, Environment, Global Warming, Hot Topics
America’s nemesis, George Soros, continues his efforts to destroy our country.
“What would you think if George Soros were organizing his fellow anti-American, globalist, neo-Marxist “thought leaders,” in pursuit of globally governed banking and finance, in a second Bretton Woods conference?
Would you consider that their goals include dragging American influence and incomes down, while confiscating much of our personal finances and giving them to other nations (and yes, the age-old financier network behind them) in the name of “communitarianism?”
Click for article…
http://biggovernment.com/awilliams/2011/04/03/george-soros-new-plan-for-global-financial-regulation/
The EPA vs YOU
February 4, 2011 by gtpadmin
Filed under Environment, Global Warming, Hot Topics
The Obama administration has resorted to plan B since the Cap and Trade legislation did not pass last year. On Jan. 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enacted what are the first regulations to regulate GHG (green house gas) emissions. I guess the public is to forget the fact that the “Climate Gate” scandal certainly shed light on how the scientific data supporting Global Warming was manipulated. Describing the new Clean Air Act of 2011, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said “We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG pollution that threatens the health and welfare of Americans, and contributes to climate change.”
“Measured and careful” — expect to hear those carefully chosen words a lot from Jackson as she’s called to Congress to defend the EPA regulations. And the agency is taking its time as it embarks on what could be the most far-reaching environmental regulatory scheme in American history.
So enter the 112 Congress- Reps. Upton and Whitfield and Sen. Inhofe are releasing the draft as part of a deliberative process with their colleagues on both sides of the aisle to discuss the most effective approach to stop EPA’s cap and trade agenda.
Click on link for article-
http://energycommerce.house.gov/news/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=8178
At the bottom of the article you can link to the actual ACT.
Ethanol Lobbyist Newt Gingrich and Us
January 31, 2011 by gtpadmin
Filed under Global Warming, Hot Topics, Uncategorized
Recently in Iowa, former speaker Mr. Gingrich, offered his support for Mr. Obama’s brand of green-energy welfare, undermining House Republicans in the process. In his Iowa speak-power-to-truth lecture, he even suggested that the government should mandate that all new cars in the U.S. be flex-fuel vehicles—meaning those that can run on an ethanol-gas mix as high as 85%.
Click the link for the full article from the WSJ.
Oh My God – It’s Déjà vu “All Over Again”
January 22, 2011 by gtpadmin
Filed under Agenda 21/Sustainable Dev., Global Warming
Parking space management: Remove a spot, reduce global warming?
(Subtitle: I went to Europe, but when I woke up, I thought I was in Gainesville)
“Parking management is a critical and often overlooked tool for achieving a variety of social goals,” according to a new study released Wednesday by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in New York.
The study cited improved air quality, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, reduced traffic congestion, improved road safety and revitalized city centers as the key benefits of parking reform.
Those benefits have been achieved in various European cities through a mixture of public policies, regulatory tools and physical design attributes, the study found. In Amsterdam and certain boroughs of London, for example, drivers pay more to park cars that emit higher levels of carbon dioxide. In Hamburg and Zurich, every new off-street parking space that is built is matched with the removal of one on-street space.
In Madrid, physical barriers are used to prevent parking in pedestrian pathways. In Copenhagen, parking spaces have been eliminated and repurposed into bike paths.
Other tools in use across Europe include increased parking fees to reduce parking space occupancy and the need for cars to cruise around searching for spaces; taxes on employers for each parking space available to employees; and limiting the number of parking spaces developers are allowed to build.
“What’s happening in China and India and many other rapidly urbanizing places is they are simply copying the model of the U.S. that has dominated urban development for the last 60 years,” said Michael Kodransky, global research manager for the nonprofit group and co-author of its report, “Europe’s Parking U-Turn: From Accommodation to Regulation.”
“What we found through this work is that Europe was on a very similar trajectory, but it started to shift away from just catering to increased demand. For a long time there was a connection between economic prosperity and motorization, and in Europe there’s been a shift. Cities that are doing quite well are moving away from just catering to car access.”
– Susan Carpenter
Photo: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times
Energy Claims And Realities
October 28, 2010 by gtpadmin
Filed under Economy, Global Warming
Read the following article by James Tonkowich in Canada Free Press about clean energy. This article is quite pertinent to the continued push for Cap and Trade and for Alachua County residents who will shortly have to contend with a new comprehensive growth plan element. This element has a goal of reducing ALL green house gas emissions in the county by 80% over a period of time. When county officials were asked how the emissions would be measured or reduced, they stated they were still in the research phase. Let’s hope they do not use the same formulations as the British scientists in the CLIMATEGATE scandal.
Click for article-
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/29203
Effect of Energy Regulation Bill
June 25, 2010 by gtpadmin
Filed under Global Warming
NCPA: Energy Issues
June 25, 2010
THE ENERVATING EFFECTS OF THE KERRY-LIEBERMAN ENERGY REGULATION BILL
A year ago the Waxman-Markey energy regulation bill passed the House. Now before the Senate is the Kerry-Lieberman energy regulation bill, which includes many of the same damaging provisions — government control of many aspects of energy generation, distribution and prices, says Pete du Pont, chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis and former governor of Delaware.
The Kerry-Lieberman bill is a bit less bad than the Waxman-Markey legislation, but only a bit, says du Pont:
* It would provide loan guarantees and encourages a speedier licensing process for new nuclear plants, one of the safest and best electricity generation options we have; America has 104 such plants today and needs to build many more to reduce pollution.
* It would support carbon capture in coal plants by providing $2 billion of research funding for clean coal, which — if it works — might help reduce domestic pollution at some point in the future.
* Before the Gulf explosion, it would have significantly encouraged offshore drilling (Waxman-Markey never mentioned offshore drilling); but it has now been amended to give Atlantic and Pacific coastal states a veto over any offshore drilling plans that officials believe might cause environmental or economic harm.
And still tucked away in the bill is a protectionist measure that Sen. John Kerry’s summary calls a “border adjustment mechanism.” It would apply if “no global agreement on climate change is reached.” In that case, there would be U.S. taxes on goods imported from countries “that have not taken action to limit emissions.” The same bad idea is in the Waxman-Markey bill, says du Pont.
The Kerry-Lieberman bill also includes a national cap-and-trade system similar to Waxman-Markey’s. Electricity generation utilities would have a limited allotment of greenhouse gas emissions, and there would be penalties for heavy-polluting industries. It may be a bit better than the House bill, but either version would add huge new bureaucracies and huge new regulations of energy, says du Pont.
Source: Pete du Pont, “Generation Gap; The Kerry-Lieberman energy bill would enervate America,” Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2010.
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