Category: climate change

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The Truth about Wind Farms: Parasites

The REAL news has to come from other countries since America no longer has unbiased and fair media. Source:  http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/57556?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook Wind turbines need a constant supply of electricity “Parasitic Consumption”—Wind-Farms By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser (Bio and Archives)  Thursday, August 29, 2013 In case you are afraid that “Parasitic Consumption” (PC) refers to little mites eating the wind turbines, […]

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No One Showed Up at Organizing for Action’s Climate Change Rally Because #ScienceSaysSo

By: Erick Erickson If a Climate Change rally fails in the woods and no one is around to hear it, did it really happen?How about in Washington, D.C.? Organizing for Action marched out of Mordor today to demand action on climate change. They held a rally in Washington, D.C. In Washington, of all places, you’d think […]

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Double JEERS to the Pantagraph!

by:  Diane Benjamin First:  Have people quit writing Letters to the Editor or are you making sure opinions of citizens aren’t heard?  Does anybody actually read the propaganda published elsewhere first? Now for the jeers: In the Cheers and Jeers editorial today: Cheers: . . . to the “I will Act on climate” group that […]

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Hot weather and climate change–a mountain from a molehill?

Climatism: A Mad, Mad, Mad World by Steve Goreham CHICAGO, July 3, 2013 — On Sunday, Death Valley temperatures reached 129oF, a new June record high for the United States, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas reached 117oF, tying the previous record set in 1942 and 2005. National Geographic, NBC News, and other media […]

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OUCH! SENATE GLOBAL WARMING HEARING BACKFIRES ON DEMOCRATS AND SENATOR BOXER

Expert witnesses totally dismantled warmism July 22, 2013 by Marc Morano http://watchdogwire.com/florida/2013/07/22/ouch-senate-global-warming-hearing-backfires-on-democrats-and-senator-boxer/   During yesterday’s Environment and Public Works hearings, Sen. David Vitter asked a panel of experts, including experts selected by Boxer,“Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during the past 10 years?” For several seconds, nobody said […]

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The Global Warming Hoax Explained for Dummies

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More low information media: Pantagraph again

by Diane Benjamin Reporter Phyllis Coulter did a story about Geothermal energy systems paying off big for local schools.  Yes, it does pay off big.  But, then facts got in the way of her ideology – or maybe she just isn’t that smart. Quote:  “The systems don’t use fossil fuels” .  That appears to be […]

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How many miles per gallon does your Prius really get?

The EPA should update the way it measures fuel efficiency, after independent tests raised questions about hybrids’ gas mileage. By The Denver Post Editorial Board Independent tests showing some hybrid vehicles get far fewer miles per gallon than advertised is a consumer issue that has significant public policy implications. We would hope the U.S. Environmental […]

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Agenda 21: Restructure US government to make “huge” green changes in America, study proposes

One of the important unanswered questions, the former official said, is “who gets to decide what sustainability is? Or what its outcome means?”  One of the major impediments, the study says, is created by America’s “basic framework of government, established by law,” which is “one of separated and dispersed authority,” in which “government agencies at […]

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Europe Exits Climate Money Pit, Obama Jumps In

By Ron Arnold, Washington Examiner – June 28, 2013 What does America have to show for the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to stop climate change? Is the climate better now because of 20 years of throwing money at it? The issue is the climate, not the loads of exorbitantly expensive subsidy scandals, secretive scientists and bureaucratic claptrap […]

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Spoken like a true Dictator

The President launched the WAR on the MIDDLE CLASS today with a speech and this email: I told Congress in February that if they didn’t take action to fight climate change, then I would. Today, I announced a plan of action to make good on that promise. My administration is taking steps to cut carbon […]

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The green fraud: Wind turbines kill birds, sicken humans, but greens don’t care

by Rich Kozlovich Posted: June 23, 2013 Jessica Marszelek, federal politics reporter for Australia’s News Limited Network, recently posted an article titled, “Australia: Wind power ‘terrorising’ rural communities.” Some 150 people turned up for a three-hour rally at Canberra’s Parliament House, she reported, to express their concern about the health effects of wind turbines. The residents […]

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Conversation with a Kool-Aid Drinker

by:  Diane Benjamin I hate to admit it, but I watch ABC World News just to see what the liberal media isn’t covering, which is most of the real news.  Last week they did a story about the fires in Colorado and DIDN’T blame Global Warming.  I was shocked since normally every weather story blames […]

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Fly on the Wall: Weathermen

All day yesterday the Pantagraph and WJBC predicted Armageddon type storms were going to hit us.  INSIDE events were cancelled around the twin cities for last night because of the dire predictions.  Wind we had, storms no.  Funny, the Weather Channel clearly showed the storms staying north of us.  Heard the one about the boy […]

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More on the Global Warming Hoax

Is Roy Spencer the world’s most important scientist? By Norman Rogers Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world’s most important scientist.   He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine.  That doctrine has always been dubious and is often defended by […]

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To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here

by:  Peter Ferrara Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic. Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island. From 1275 to 1300 A.D., glaciers began expanding more broadly, according to radiocarbon dating of plants killed by the glacier growth. […]

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How much is the Heartland Turbine saving? UPDATE!

Update:  I finally got an answer from Heartland about the numbers they submitted.  The KWH does include the electricity generated by the turbine.  Notice the cost per KWH didn’t drop significantly until September, then it  dropped even more.  I know they had installation problems, so possibly the turbine wasn’t fully running until then.  Maybe next […]

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The tragedy of climatism: Heartland College

Green energy has bankrupted many European Countries – but we keep drinking the Kool-aid.  That $3.7 million grant is our tax money: http://www.commerce.state.il.us/dceo/ From the Hearthand Community College website: http://www.hcc.cc.il.us/news.jsp?newsID=1927 IGEN Earns $3.7 Million Grant for Green Economy HCC, other Illinois community colleges and local communities to benefit from new programs The Illinois Green Economy Network […]

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The tragedy of climatism: Resource misuse on a global scale

by Steve Goreham Excepts from the story linked to below: At the same time, the theory of man-made warming appears increasingly shaky. Hundreds of studies show that Earth was warmer 1,000 years ago than it is today. Water vapor, not carbon dioxide, is Earth’s dominant greenhouse gas. Arctic sea ice recently reached a 30-year low, but Antarctic Sea ice is […]

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Want Science? Try this

From the June 2013 issue of Popular Science:  The environmental crowd is changing the weather!

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The Fracking Lies continue

by Diane Benjamin As previously reported (http://blnnews.com/2012/08/30/fracking-under-attack-with-fraud-in-mclean-county/) (http://blnnews.com/2013/01/23/fracknation-exposed-the-energy-haters/) some people will do anything, including lie, to stop the use of fossil fuels.  We are all affected because cheap energy is essential to the economy of the United States.  Double gas prices have put a lid on potential economic development when families have fewer discretionary dollars.  Cheap natural gas collected […]

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Sequester, what sequester?

MILITARY SIGNS CONTRACT FOR GREEN JET FUEL THAT’S NEARLY 16 TIMES THE PRICE OF CONVENTIONAL FUEL May. 3, 2013 11:08am Liz Klimas With many claiming to feel the pangs of the sequestration, it appears a green company’s contract for a more expensive jet fuel was allowed to go through. The renewable chemical and biofuel company Gevo in its first quarter […]

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Is it time to end ethanol vehicle fuel mandates?

CHICAGO, April 16, 2013—Last week, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and other lawmakers introduced legislation in the House of Representatives calling for major changes in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS is the reason why most US automobile fuel contains ten percent ethanol. The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol […]

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Church of Global Warming feels the heat

By:  Rick Manning It is a bad time to be a global warming believer.   Seventeen straight years of climate stability will straighten even the most ardent true believers hockey stick. Russian scientists have even expressed concern that the globe may be facing more than 200 years of global cooling even going so far as worrying about […]

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Green Energy Truths

by:  Diane Benjamin It is mostly impossible to get any truth about green energy.  There are reasons: companies making money off green technology have a financial interest in hiding truth schools have an interest in hiding the truth – grants scientists have a financial interest in hiding the truth – grants, research funds government has […]

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Earth Day’s Big Lie

By:  Alan Caruba SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013 http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/04/by-alancaruba-mondayapril-22-is-earth.html Monday, April 22, is Earth Day. Begun in 1970, it led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. It is the global platform for the Big Lie that carbon dioxide (CO2) is causing the Earth […]

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ISU Indoctrination continues, Pantagraph helps

by:  Diane Benjamin In yesterday’s Pantagraph, a story was written about Donald Wuebbles and a speech he gave on climate change at ISU.  The article stated he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, but keep in mind President Obama received one in 2009 (right after he was 1st elected!).  They fell for Hope and Change, […]

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Lawsuit Alleges Wind Power A Threat To Health And Safety

‘We’ve moved our beds to the basement … so I can try to sleep’ By JACK SPENCER | April 16, 2013 A 476 foot tall windmill stands 1,139 feet from the Shineldecker house in Riverton Township in Mason County. A group of 17 Northern Michigan residents have filed a lawsuit claiming a new Consumers Energy wind farm has […]

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NO Consensus on Climate Change!

TEAM OBAMA’S CARBON TAX HAS NOT FIZZLED OUT By Nancy Thorner – The issue of Global Warming is very much alive in the Obama administration, even while the gun and the gay marriage issues remain on the front burner. Symbolic of President Obama’s push for green energy was his visit to Argonne National Laboratory on […]

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Obama’s Plans for the Suburbs: And How to Stop Them

  By Stanley Kurtz March 18, 2013 10:01 A.M. Last Friday’s headlines focused on President Obama’s address at Argonne National Laboratory, where he proposed to spend $2 billion on an energy-security trust fund for renewable fuel research. Obama boldly pledged “to shift our cars entirely . . . off oil.” How exactly is he planning to […]

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Renewable energy’s big secret

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 – Climatism: A Mad, Mad, Mad World by Steve Goreham CHICAGO, February 20, 2013—Climate change has again moved to center stage. Last week in his State of the Union address, President Obama stated, “But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.” Two days later, Senators […]

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UN’s #1 Global Warming Spokesman Has No Training in Climatology

The #1 global warming pooh-bah at the United Nations Organization has zero training in climatology. He is a professor of railroad engineering. He also taught economics. He travels the world telling us about climate change. But he has a problem. There has been no increase in temperatures in over a decade. Here is the Wikipedia […]

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Fly on the Wall: Another Global Warming Story!

Front page of the Pantagraph!  Wow.  Ask yourself:  What caused the Dust Bowl?  What happened to the glacier that used to cover 1/2 of Illinois?  Who pays the salaries of climate scientists?  Would they still get paid if they disagreed with current theories?  How do they explain the 500 year cycles of warming and cooling […]

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League of Women Voters didn’t get the memo

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=forwardonclimate_partners The President is making a priority of passing climate change laws.  A number of groups are organizing a march on DC, the full list is on their website.  You have probably never heard of most of them, but a big one jumps out:  The League of Women Voters. The Sierra Club is a leftist group […]

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Will Chris Koos drop plans for charging stations?

Goodbye, Prius? Japanese carmakers drop battery electric-car development Japan is backtracking on battery electric-car development, as even Nissan’s vice chairman, the so-called “father of the Prius,” announced plans to copy Toyota and pursue fuel-cell cars that convert hydrogen to electricity. “Because of its shortcomings — driving range, cost and recharging time — the electric vehicle is not a viable […]

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Illinois, “Agenda 21” EXPOSED!!!!

Indoctrinating Your kids!  Who decides what is sustainable?  Not individuals! Agenda 21 Eco-World Marxism in Illinois EXPOSED!! WHO IS Sharp? She explains how joyfully Illinois established the tyranny of going green, with her help, but is she having second thoughts?? 20 million dollars ready to use!! In 1956 Paul Burkett wrote his paper “Towards a Read Green […]

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Obama’s War on the Middle Class

Has drilling on Federal Land been approved?  Has the Keystone pipeline been approved?  Have cancelled drilling permits been re-instated?  NO!  This is the real war to destroy wealth in America. Spending on gas hits a 30 year high, which spells trouble for many business owners who may need to reevaluate 2013 plans. Spending on gas […]

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United Nations – Agenda 21 – Sustainable Development

Link to entire story:  http://tinyurl.com/a8ggcuf This story concentrates on on the Bay Area of California, but much of it applies to McLean County.  There isn’t much difference between the Bay Area and the McLean Country Regional Planning Commission.  MCRPC haas plans on their website for Bloomington, Normal, McLean County, Unit 5, District 87, and more, […]

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Another country from which to “learn”

More on the Democratic plans to declare war on the middle class by raising energy prices: Published January 31, 2013 | By Bruce McQuain   The question, as posed earlier concerning Britain and France, is will we? Electricity prices are rising in Germany – and citizen with a low-income are suffering particularly. They are at risk of fuel poverty. 10 to 15 percent […]

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Climate Activists Put the Heat on Obama

This article is from the far left site The Nation.  Evidently Americans don’t mind paying twice as much for gas since Obama won re-election.  Do you mind paying more for all forms of energy?  Either take a stand now or pay later! “As visionary as Obama is, he is hamstrung by his pragmatism.” So says […]