May 10, 2008
Polar Bear Scare Could Maul Energy Production
By Nathan Burchfiel
Business & Media Institute
Global warming alarmists, news media portray arctic beasts as victims and spokesbears, but protecting their thriving population means greatly increased federal power to control our lives.
He’s on the cover of magazines like Time and Vanity Fair and appears on TV regularly as the image of the environmental movement. Now the polar bear could be pounding a path to your door.

May 9, 2008
The cost and futility of trading hot air
by Christopher Monckton
Source: SPPI
(Full Report and Technical Appendix at end of article)
The “Environmental Defence Fund” (EDF) has circulated a “Report ” that says the cost of controlling the “pollution that causes ‘global warming’” is “only pennies a day … almost too small to measure.” The conclusions, summarized by EDF, are –

May 8, 2008
Max Schulz
A celebrated green economy produces pollution elsewhere, ongoing power shortages, and business-crippling costs.

Rancho Seco was once a nuclear plant generating over 900 megawatts of electricity; today, its solar panels produce just 4.

In January 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stood before the California legislature in Sacramento and delivered his fourth State of the State address since his improbable 2003 election. It was a rhetorical tour de force that would win him widespread acclaim. “California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta,” said Schwarzenegger. “Not only can we lead California into the future; we can show the nation and the world how to get there.”