Tag Archives: Topic: Environmentalism

AP: “The EPA will announced its findings at a news conference Monday. The announcement is timed to boost the Obama administration’s arguments at an international climate conference . . . ”

“But Christmas is a religious holiday that has no place at a United Nations function, according to the Foreign Ministry’s Svend Olling . . . ”

AP: “Australia’s plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week . . . ”

The Guardian: “There is ‘virtually no possibility’ of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today. Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”

James Taranto writes at the NY Times:  ”And it hardly needs to be said that peer review is a sham if papers that present alternative hypotheses are not even allowed into the process . . . What we now know about the ‘peer review’ process in this field indicates that this is a predetermined conclusion.”

US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: “Specifically, I will discuss the systematic and documented abuse of the scientific process by an international body that claims it provides the most complete and objective scientific assessment in the world on the subject of climate change – the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC.”

HotAir.com: “Controversy has exploded onto the Internet after a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK had its e-mail system hacked and the data published on line . . . those e-mails expose a conspiracy to hide detrimental information from the public that argues against global warming . . . ”

AP: “The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.”

BBC News: “His solicitor, Shah Qureshi, said: ‘Essentially what the judgment says is that a belief in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperative is capable of being a philosophical belief and is therefore protected by the 2003 religion or belief regulations.’”

Alex Renton writes at the Guardian: “The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. If they behave as the average person in the rich world does now, they will emit some 11 tonnes of CO² every year of their lives. In their turn, they are likely to have more carbon-emitting children who will make an even bigger mess. If Britain is to meet the government’s target of an 80% reduction in our emissions by 2050, we need to start reversing our rising rate of population growth immediately.”

The Guardian: “The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. If they behave as the average person in the rich world does now, they will emit some 11 tonnes of CO² every year of their lives. In their turn, they are likely to have more carbon-emitting children who will make an even bigger mess. If Britain is to meet the government’s target of an 80% reduction in our emissions by 2050, we need to start reversing our rising rate of population growth immediately.”

Minnesota Free Market Institute: “Last week, climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton spoke to an audience of over 700 in St. Paul. The event also featured the national premiere of a new documentary from the Cascade Policy Institute titled ‘Climate Chains.’”

CNSNews: “Andrew Revkin, who reports on environmental issues for The New York Times, floated an idea last week for combating global warming: Give carbon credits to couples that limit themselves to having one child.”

CNSNews: “Climate change must become our highest priority,” a fact sheet attached to the plan said. “Consequently, we will deploy our resources, creativity and energy in a long-term campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and safeguard fish, wildlife and their habitats.”

Reuters: “The U.S. ‘Religious Left’ — which has been active at the grassroots level to support President Barack Obama’s drive for health care reform – has now launched a campaign in support his other major domestic initiative: climate change legislation.”

WSJ: “How else to explain the coordinated release on Wednesday of the EPA’s new rules that make carbon a dangerous pollutant and John Kerry’s cap-and-trade bill? Ms. Jackson is issuing a political ultimatum to business, as well as to Midwestern and rural Democrats: Support the Kerry-Obama climate tax agenda—or we’ll punish your utilities and consumers without your vote.”

ABA Journal: “The ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there was no need for the courts to defer to Congress, the New York Law Journal reports. A trial judge had found the nuisance suit …

Voice of America: “U.S. President Barack Obama says inaction on climate change could leave future generations with an ‘irreversible catastrophe.’ Mr. Obama called on global leaders Tuesday to move ‘boldly, swiftly, and together’ to combat the problem.”

“Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.”

Telegraph: “Contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of preventing climate change than conventional green technologies, according to research by the London School of Economics.”

Reuters: “United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders on Monday to take urgent action to combat climate change for the sake of ‘the future of humanity.’”

Jillian Bandes writes at Townhall: “What’s the best way to save the planet? Don’t have kids, say researchers from Oregon State University. ‘Clearly, the potential savings from reduced reproduction are huge compared to the savings that can be achieved by changes in lifestyle,’ the report states . . . ”

Live Science at Yahoo News: “A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environment-friendly practices people might employ during their entire lives – things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs . . . Murtaugh’s findings are detailed in a 2009 issue of the journal Global Environmental Change.

William McGurn writes at the Wall Street Journal: “More and more, we are hearing from people who might best be described as anti-birthers. Their claims have nothing to do with long- versus short-form Hawaiian birth certificates. Instead, they advance a simple proposition: that the birth of each additional American child is a kind of calamity for the environment.”

AP: “Costs resulting from global warming in the decades ahead, according to a new report. Global warming could translate into annual costs and revenue losses throughout the economy of between $2.5 billion and $15 billion by 2050, according to a …

CNSNews: “Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, told the International Conference on Climate Change that the true aim of environmentalists is to stop global development, not save the planet.”

Erin Brown and Matt Philbin write at The Culture and Media Institute: Popular author Steven Kotler has declared that responsible adults should stop having children in order to save the planet. Those who are having kids, are being selfish and …

CNSNews: “Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the committee chair, told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference Tuesday that Democrats on the committee are writing a global warming bill that she says will not only preserve the environment, but also help …

Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal: . . . Now, as the Golden State prepares to implement this regulatory scheme, employers are howling. It’s become clear to nearly everyone that the plan’s backers have underestimated its negative impact …

AFP: Czech President Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in a frontal attack on the science of global warming. “I don’t think that there is any global warming,” said the 67-year-old liberal, …

Times Online: COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned. Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through …

The AP reports: The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study …