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cooling heated rhetoric on global warming

And If You Believe They Put A Man On The Moon (Man On The Moon) …Yesterday

From Marc Morano:

Gore’s frequent comparison of global warming skeptics to people who “believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona” was delivered a major blow when Moonwalker and Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist Jack Schmitt who flew on the Apollo 17 mission declared he was a skeptic. “The ‘global warming scare’ is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society’s activities,” Schmitt said.

A Serious SocialistYesterday

Browner is an environmental radical – and a socialist (seriously)

We’re Just Saying, Ethanol Isn’t Perfect …Yesterday

William Yeatman has this over at GlobalWarming.org:

… a global warming policy has already led to instability in the developing world. Only a couple years ago, environmentalists promoted ethanol as a “green fuel.” They were wrong. It turns out that ethanol production leads to land use changes that release more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than is saved by ethanol use.

Worse, ethanol is made from food—corn and soy in the U.S., palm oil and wheat in the European Union. In 2008, ethanol production policies in the developed world contributed to steep inflation in the price of food, which caused urban unrest in developing countries dependent on the international grain market.

Gore’s Pronouncements Get Icy Reception From, Well … FactsJanuary 6

IBD has this worthy note:

According to DailyTech blogger Michael Asher, “Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.” This isn’t Asher’s opinion, but fact based on data from the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center.

News about growing sea ice isn’t exactly what environmentalists who predicted the North Pole would be free of ice in 2008 want to hear. Al Gore and his fellow alarmists have been telling us for years that melting sea ice and glaciers will dramatically and dangerously increase sea levels.

So where’s the rush to apocalyptic predictions of global cooling? We don’t suppose we’ll see that anytime soon … after all, think of all the brochures the enviro groups would have to trash and replace!

Cow Tax: $175 For Bovine Hot AirJanuary 5

We’ve told you before about the sought-after cow tax that would penalize dinner for eating, breathing, and whatever other functions need to occur. Since cows are not a favorite for the folks at PETA and because environmentally minded advocates know cows produce greenhouse gases like they’re going out of style, beef may be what’s for dinner — but the activists want it to come at a higher cost.

The Business and Media Institute is on the case, and it has some helpful figures. It seems the tax would come to about $175 per head of cattle under a possible new EPA rule:

Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.

The ANPR, released early this year, would give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas for not only greenhouse gas from manmade sources like transportation and industry, but also “stationary” sources which would include livestock.

It’s worth noting that this one single proposal could raise the cost of a gallon of milk by as much as $0.08. Makes you wonder where we’ll feel the costs of a massive new federal bureaucracy if cap-and-traders get their way.