via: globalclimatescam The Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service is currently deliberating on offshore drilling permissions for the years 2010-2015. If an area is not approved now, drilling for domestic oil will be off-limits there until at least 2015. The Minerals Management Service says it will ultimately decide the fate of 31 proposed lease sales [...]
Archive for September, 2009
10 Sep
Non-surprise of the day: GE’s PCB clean-up makes Hudson River worse
via: greenhellblog The green-forced “clean-up” by General Electric of PCBs in Hudson River sediments has — to no one’s surprise — backfired. As predicted by everyone with an ounce of common sense, GE’s dredging stirred up the formerly entombed PCBs. EPA water-test results revealed that PCB levels in the river exceed safety limits. Chalk up [...]
10 Sep
New green ‘technology’: Turning off your AC
via: greenhellblog In an article titled “Calif. looks to storage technologies and people to balance its grid” (Aug. 11), ClimateWire reports that, Another technology [seen as key] is demand management, a process by which consumers adjust how much electricity their homes or offices are using based on real-time information from the grid on prices and [...]
10 Sep
NAS: International CO2 limits unenforceable
via: greenhellblog This July 28 letter from the National Academy of Sciences says that there is no existing way to monitor CO2 emissions around the world — meaning that there would be no way to verify that countries around the world are complying with emissions limits that may be set by international treaty. Of course, [...]
10 Sep
Townhalls with Al Gore? Bring’em on!
via: greenhellblog Al Gore’s group Repower America apparently is looking to hold townhall meetings on Waxman-Markey, reports the News-Sentinel (Knoxville, TN). Stay tuned. This could be fun!
10 Sep
Ohio robbery suspect asked victim for date
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio police said a suspect in a robbery was arrested when he returned to the home about two hours later to ask the victim out on a date. Police say 20-year-old Stephfon Bennett of Columbus was among three men who robbed a couple late Sunday. Columbus police Sgt. Sean Laird said [...]
10 Sep
Russia Rebukes America for Turning Marxist (by Rick Joyner)
Could it possibly be true that one of the most insightful voices of clarity about current events in America could come from Pravda, the premier Russian Newspaper? An editorial published in Pravda is a sweeping summary of what is now happening in America that is, and should, cause every American to consider what is transpiring [...]
10 Sep
Suicide of the West?
“Adam Smith [once] said, ‘Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.’ That lesson seems to have been forgotten in America … where so many people seem to have been far more concerned about whether we have been nice enough to the mass-murdering terrorists in our custody than those critics have ever been about [...]
10 Sep
Obama’s Soak-the-Rich Mentality
“The belief that the tax code is skewed to benefit the rich is one that many Americans share. When pollsters ask whether high-income people are paying too much, too little, or their fair share in federal taxes, 60 percent or more of respondents routinely answer: too little. But the data tell a different story. By [...]
10 Sep
This Just In … Obama Is a Leftist!
“What does it take for some to wake up? When Obama publicly asserts that some corporations, including ‘Big Oil’ and medical insurance companies, make ‘obscene profits’ (they don’t compared with many other industries) and that his ‘compensation czar’ will look into executive compensation, what does that tell you? When he argues that medical insurance companies [...]
