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Global Warming’s New ‘Consensus’ -
There’s a new global warming consensus in town. It’s too bad the once-level-headed, but now chicken-hearted Bush
Administration has already skedaddled, perhaps leaving our standard of living at the mercy of Barack Obama and his
high regard for the international hate-America crowd. (Steven Milloy, FoxNews.com)
31,000 Signatures
Prove ‘No Consensus’ About Global Warming - Presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday that “we
have to get used to the idea that we can’t keep our houses at 72, drive our SUVs and eat all we want.” Arthur B.
Robinson, president and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, has a different
response.
“I don’t want to give up eating all I want because of a failed hypothesis,” said Robinson at the National
Press Club here on May 19. Robinson said global warming is not a threat to America. He said that the global
temperature increased by just .5 degrees in the last century. (AIM)
Endangered Specious - Alaska says
it will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. The designation could block vital oil
and gas development. But that was the whole point in the first place. (IBD)
Bush’s
polar bear legal disaster - Some not-so-clever polar bear skeptic in the White House may have thought this was a
brilliant manoeuvre (Kevin A. Hassett, Financial Post)
State's fever on
global warming may be cooling - The state's costly, grandiose scheme to combat global warming is finding
resistance from many of the same folks who approved it two years ago. Meanwhile, legislative opposition also is
growing to the plan to create a global warming state think tank financed by a utility users' surcharge.
It appears that paying for saving mankind from a projected 1- or 2-degree increase in temperature over the next
century already is proving too costly in today's limited dollars. (Appeal Democrat)
Oil Industry, Lawmakers Aim To Lift Bans on
Drilling - Mounting concerns about global energy supply are fueling a drive by the oil industry and some U.S.
lawmakers to end longstanding bans on domestic drilling put in place to protect environmentally sensitive areas.
Increasing U.S. oil production would require overturning decades-old moratoriums that limit offshore drilling and
accelerating leasing of federal lands, moves that would trigger a swift and vigorous political backlash. Still, as
gasoline prices continue to climb and squeeze household budgets, the momentum appears to be gaining to open up new
areas. (Wall Street Journal)
Italy
Plans to Resume Building Atomic Plants - ROME — Italy announced Thursday that within five years it planned to
resume building nuclear energy plants, two decades after a public referendum resoundingly banned nuclear power and
deactivated all its reactors.
“By the end of this legislature, we will put down the foundation stone for the construction in our country of a
group of new-generation nuclear plants,” said Claudio Scajola, minister of economic development. “An action plan
to go back to nuclear power cannot be delayed anymore.”
The change is a striking sign of the times, reflecting growing concern in many European countries over the
skyrocketing price of oil and energy security, and the warming effects of carbon emissions from fossil fuels. All
have combined to make this once-scorned form of energy far more palatable.
“Italy has had the most dramatic, the most public turnaround, but the sentiments against nuclear are reversing
very quickly all across Europe — Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and more,” said Ian Hore-Lacey, spokesman for
the World Nuclear Association, an industry group based in London. (New York Times)