In spite of the reports in the media about the great ice melt this year the Arctic ice melt was 30 percent less than the ice melt last year and Antarctica ice continues to increase. Some people just lie because it is in their interest to lie and to keep up the global warming hype. Anyone in Alaska will tell you that this summer was a very cold summer. It is amazing how some people want us to believe that a slight Pacific cooling is driving cooling over most of the Globe and that global warming is just taking a break for a couple of years. It is nonsense. Nobody knows what the long term climate will be because it has little to do with man made CO2.

Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered | The Register

Just a few weeks ago, predictions of Arctic ice collapse were buzzing all over the internet. Some scientists were predicting that the “North Pole may be ice-free for first time this summer”. Others predicted that the entire “polar ice cap would disappear this summer”.

The Arctic melt season is nearly done for this year. The sun is now very low above the horizon and will set for the winter at the North Pole in five weeks. And none of these dire predictions have come to pass. Yet there is, however, something odd going on with the ice data.

The Arctic did not experience the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar Year Secretariat. It didn’t even come close. Additionally, some current graphs and press releases from NSIDC seem less than conservative. There appears to be a consistent pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss.

And what of the Antarctic? Down south, ice extent is well ahead of the recent average. Why isn’t NSIDC making similarly high-profile press releases about the increase in Antarctic ice over the last 30 years?

More of the scientific community is seeing that man caused global warming is overstated. The IPCC was concealing its method of reaching its conclusions because the man caused global warming conclusions were make by bureaucrats who wish to use this issue to further the UN’s global governance agenda. The conclusions in the report were not make by atmospheric scientists. We also know much of the data they used in the report has been found to be wrong. Apart from the people on the hundred billion dollar global warming payroll I would like someone to find that global warming consensus of scientists.

Al Gore lies through his teeth and keeps bringing up the scientific consensus  and follows it by saying that the few deniers of man caused global warming (ten’s of thousands of true scientists) are equal to holocaust deniers and members of he Flat Earth Society. So Al Gore where is this huge consensus of atmosphereic scientists and why won’t you even debate true climate scientists on this issue instead of just saying the debate is over?

Are you really saying that UN’s hand selected panels are always right on everything? Now that opinion would might help get you a Nobel Peace Prize but they also give those to terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.

Top physics group shows crack in warming ‘consensus’

In another strike against the conventional assertion of a consensus on global warming, a publication of an organization representing more than 50,000 physicists acknowledges many members of the scientific community don’t believe humans are the primary cause of climate change.

The editor of Physics & Society, a newsletter of the American Physical Society, says that with his July issue he wants to kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.

Monckton, who believes natural variability is the cause of most recent warming, told the DailyTech he was “dismayed” to discover the IPCC’s 2001 and 2007 reports did not properly explain the method used to reach its conclusions.

“When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method,” he said.

Larry Gould, professor of physics at the University of Hartford and chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton’s paper an “expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and “extensive errors,” the DailyTech said.

Al Gore needs to come down to earth from the moon, get his head out of his crystal ball and learn some fundamental science.

This Nobel buffoon challenges the U.S. to get every kilowatt of electricity out of what he calls “Earth-friendly” sources in 10 years. It can’t be done and everyone knows it. It can’t even be done in fifty years. He is even contradicting the Alliance for Climate Protection that he chairs. They say it will cost the nation 1.5 to 3 trillion dollars over thirty years and that does not even count the two billion it will cost for clean coal. So who do you think will pay this five trillion dollars? You will pay for it by higher prices on everything and through carbon taxes.

We do not have to be at the mercy of oil producing regimes. Environmentalists and globalists like Al Gore made that possible. We can once again be the largest oil producing regime on the planet. We have the largest oil and coal reserves in the world and it will cost only $50 a barrel to get it out of the ground. The oil is in oil shale and oil companies now know how to get it out of the ground without harming the environment. The U.S. and Canada have have enough oil and gas in shale, oil sands and coal to be a major exporter to the world for a thousand years. Granted it would take about 30 years before we can become a major net exporter but each year we will be producing more and more of our own oil at the equivalent of $2 a gallon gas. Those are the facts. However we need to get started if we are ever going to be a net exporter rather than an importer. That means that we have to allow oil shale development on Federal lands where most of it is located and coal plants needs to be built that will start converting coal to oil. The know how exists. Pilot project are under development that will produce oil out of shale for under $50 a barrel, the same methods can be used for oil sands. South Africa is now producing oil out of coal for most of the oil needs of their nation at $30 a barrel.

What really needs to be done is for Congress and environmentalists like Al Gore to stop blocking progress. CO2 in any level that man produces is beneficial to the earth. It makes green plants grow and there is no evidence that it is linked to global warming. In fact, as CO2 level continue to increase the earth has not cooled in over a decade and it actually started major cooling in the last two years. Alaska as I speak is having the coldest summer in a long time. Your not going to see pictures of ice free passages in the Arctic this year unless they use last years footage (that is not at all above them). So without any evidence they say global warming is taking a ten year break and it will start again once they ramrod their crazy energy policies on much of the world. This really has nothing to do with global warming it is all about global control of everyone.

Increased volcanic activity will more likely have more effect on CO2 in the future then anything that man does. Since man only causes less then five percent of the CO2 in the atmosphere.

Another thing is Al Gore and other globalist like him are the ones who exported all our manufacturing to other nations. So they created the rapid uncontrolled development in China and India and now they say that these nations are causing the problem by using more oil. So they created the problem and now the same people who created the problem tell us the problem they created is the cause of the world oil shortage. Gee, maybe you people should of thought of that before you exported all of manufacturing jobs to nations that have few environmental controls. They governments are also subsidizing the cost of oil in these developing nations. If they let the free market set the price of oil many of the jobs would go elsewhere and China and India would not keep expanding at this insane rate.

Al Gore also does not understand economics 101. Oil prices can only go as high as people are willing to pay for it. They are not going to keep going up. If they did there would be a world depression and oil demand would decline. We heard the same nonsense under Jimmy Carter in the late 70’s but then oil prices declined under Ronald Regan due to free enterprise.

That is why anytime you hear of the likelihood of a recession in the U.S. oil prices suddenly decline. If we had a severe recession in this country all nations exports would suffer and these countries would be using less oil. It is possible that in a world recession oil prices could be back under $30 a barrel. There is also new oil coming on line in the next two years that could help push prices down. The main reason oil continues to go up is on the future speculation that demand will increase ten years down the line. However, if we start major drilling programs and other energy development that will take the future out of the oil futures market and oil will go down to what it is actually worth.

I suggest they we have a moon project and send Al Gore to the moon before the globe suffers irreparable harm from the global carbon scheme that he is pushing and his crystal ball predictions of doom.

My Way News - Gore sets ‘moon shot’ goal on climate change

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.

The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group that he chairs, estimates the cost of transforming the nation to so-called clean electricity sources at $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion over 30 years in public and private money. But he says it would cost about as much to build ozone-killing coal plants to satisfy current demand.

To meet his 10-year goal, Gore said nuclear energy output would continue at current levels while the nation dramatically increases its use of solar, wind, geothermal and so-called clean coal energy. Huge investments must also be made in technologies that reduce energy waste and link existing grids, he said.

If the nation fails to act, the cost of oil will continue to rise as fast-growing China and India increase demand, Gore said. Sustained addiction to oil also will place the nation at the mercy of oil-producing regimes, he said, and the globe would suffer irreparable harm.

Government experts recently predicted that, at the current rate, world energy demand will grow 50 percent over the next two decades. The Energy Information Administration also said in its long-range forecast to 2030 that the world is not close to abandoning fossil fuels despite their effect on global warming.

Well I am glad that someone is noticing the insanity of it all. If politicians actually try to cut CO2 by 50 percent there will be a world revolution. It is easy to make promises about forty years down the line because none of these people will be alive. Why would you believe a politician about what their country will do in forty years when their politicians do not even meet commitments of today. Seems everything the G 8 does is just for show including the photos. The Brits will be the first to revolt because thanks to government stupidity they will run short of electricity in just a few years unless they go into national decline which is more than likely.

Our leaders are in carbon-cloud cuckoo land - Telegraph

For a perfect example of what is meant by “gesture politics” - an empty pledge given solely for effect, which the politician has no hope of honouring - one could not do better than this week’s commitment by the G8 leaders on how they want us to fight climate change.

Sitting on their cloud-wreathed Japanese mountain top, they solemnly agreed that, to halt global warming, their countries would aim by 2050 to halve their emissions of carbon dioxide.

If the G8’s leaders genuinely wanted to cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent over the next 40 years, this would mean taking steps they haven’t even begun to contemplate. It would require such a drastic cut in our energy use and standard of living that their peoples would have risen up in mass revolt long before the target was reached.

Forget the nonsense about a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050. Our Government has already committed Britain to go even further, by imposing a statutory cut of 60 per cent through its Climate Change Bill.

But long before that, unless those who rule us come down out of cloud cuckoo land very fast, our lights will go out, our computers will shut down, our economy will judder to a halt and we shall face a national catastrophe. We may well be meeting that 60 per cent target sooner than we think - but not for reasons that reflect well on our politicians, of any party.

The carbon taxation has started in some nations already and in some cities in the U.S. In Britain they all will soon have carbon rationing cards if the British people are stupid enough to let the politicians get away with it.

The tax and grab your freedoms fascists are planning this for everyone worldwide to fund their socialist fascist global government. They will start with a modest tax and then keep turning the screws. They will have their own fascist carbon police force to enforce all their dictates. These green fascists know if you control carbon you control everything on earth.

They plan to pass tax laws here in the U.S. next year if we do not stop them. If oil ever goes down they plan to increase the taxes to make up the difference. Obama loves the idea and McCain is in the same boat.

If Al Gore and his Gaia worshipers think they can dictate to us how to save a world that warmed one whole degree in the last hundred years but cooled back to where it was last year, just so they can tax us for their fascist global government, then I suggest we let them live out their lives on Antarctica. There they can get first hand experience about their global warming BS.

NWV News — Americans Will Be Taxed for Their Carbon Emissions

Some well informed conservatives in the United States are sounding the alarm about plans to tax Americans for carbon emissions purported to cause what’s been dubbed, “Global Warming.” Adding to their fears of oppressive global climate taxation is a recent event in Canada. Read GPF on global taxes.

On July 1, citizens of Canada’s British Columbia began paying a so-called carbon tax for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The provincial government is levying the tax on most fossil fuels, including gasoline and home heating fuel. British Columbia hopes the new policy will cause people to drive less and conserve more energy, thus leading to a significant cut in greenhouse gas emissions that allegedly contribute to climate change.

In addition, according to Mike Baker, a political strategist who has studied the new Canadian tax law, citizens will be expected to pay taxes for wood stove and fireplace emissions, farm equipment, trucks, automobiles and anything else that utilizes fossil fuel. He predicts there will come a time in the not to distant future when even water and clean air consumption by individuals will be taxed.

“New ‘Gobal Warming’ cops will be hired to drive around the county looking for smoke coming out of peoples chimneys and write hefty tickets to those that refuse to comply. A goldmine of new found money coming to city and county cofers,” added Baker.

“If replicated in the United States — as Al Gore and others want — this will be one of the biggest power grabs in US history.

“It’s all about who will control the earth resources. It’s big government laying claim to the waters, oceans, lakes, forests, birds, animals, earth’s land surface, the air we breathe, the food we eat and the sky and space, as well as you and me!” said Joan Veon, CEO of the Women’s International Media Group and a recognized expert in politically-motivated scientific research. British government is already dictating to their citizens to stop wasting food.

“Little by little, the world is being re-organized using capitalism as the global engine to also change the structure of government from government to public-private partnership which is a co-management of government by business,” she said in a telephone interview with NewsWithViews.com.

Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is in fact a convenient lie that fails all analysis according to history and experience. Yet here, and obviously in Canada, our elected representatives feel compelled to rush ahead with legislative attempts to save the planet from man-caused global warming with their vehicle of choice: taxation.

“Given the paucity of fact supporting the allegation, one has to wonder about the true motive of these legislators. These people are not ignorant. One can only conclude that their interest is in the legislation, not the problem it is said to cure. The goal then is the taxation and its justification is “save the planet.” No more. No less. And the objective of that taxation is, as always, the redistribution of wealth according to the standards of the intelligentsia in the government.

“The neo-Marxist liberals in this nation and throughout the world have failed in bringing about global socialism with their many attempts at duping Americans. Now they’ve found a weapon they believe will scare even the staunchest capitalist, freedom-loving American into giving up his or her freedoms for the sake of saving the planet from the evils of human existence,” said Mike Baker.

Baker added “In order for the people to reverse this diabolical trend, they must vote out all the sell out politicians on the local level across the whole country, and only elect those who will serve the people.”

Have we become nothing but turnips (since man no longer is sovereign) and now they can tax us for every breathe of air, every shower, every hot cup of tea, every yard we drive in our car, every hour that we have a light bulb on, and every carrot we plant and water?

Everyday I have to endure the lies on major media that blame global warming for everything from the floods in Iowa to the fires in California. It is not only nonsense it is flat out lies and lying on news programs to deceive the public should be illegal. If they had an ounce of scientific knowledge they would know that global warming is not the cause of these climate events. Yet they keep saying it is. The elitists running the media want that disinformation told. It is nothing but a blatant lying brainwashing campaign to get the globalist tax and grab agenda passed.

In this article Dr. Tim Ball tells you why the floods and violent weather this year were more likely the result of global cooling and why you can expect more violent weather it in the future. Yet, you can be sure that national media will keep blaming all climatic events on global warming. God forbid that a major hurricane hits the U.S. this season. Every global warming bill in the congress will be instantly passed without a shred of science behind it.

CFP: Alarmists use weather to promote global warming hoax

Claims that recent severe weather and flooding in the US are proof of human CO2 impacts on global climate are scientific nonsense. They are part of a pattern of keeping weather and climate issues in the public mind.

There are three major problems with what is being said. 1. The severe weather of this spring across the Northern Hemisphere was caused by cooler weather not warmer. 2. The IPCC and the NOAA positions that severe weather will increase with global warming is scientifically wrong. 3. The records show current weather extremes are well within long term natural variability.

This trend of severe weather is most likely to increase as the Earth continues to cool. Proponents of human caused climate change will claim it proves them right. They will continue their practice of claiming natural events as unnatural. Unless people understand the basic science they will continue the fraud and pressure politicians into even more damaging energy and environmental policies.

Thank God their are still a few people in the world that can think critically. The globalist elite are betting the farm that they control enough of what people hear through their globalist socialist controlled educational systems, politicians and media to keep the people dumbed down. We see their attempts to marginalize all those who actually think for themselves and who see through their climate change tax and power grab. All indications so far is that they do have people so totally dumbed down that they will believe just about anything they are told.

The main fly in the ointment of these control freaks is that the earth is no longer warming and some scientists are starting to jump ship. The real question is will the globalist elite get their world management regulations and taxes in place before the people catch on? They will certainly try. However, I would not want to be in their place when people realized that they wrecked the global economy over a secular socialist idealist dream that had nothing to do with climate. Peoples heads might then literally roll. It wont be the first time the common people rebelled against those who believe themselves to be an elite class of enlightened aristocrats. Don’t think that given the public trust that you will not be held accountable.

Imagine there’s no warming …

Again, if the high priests of global warming could actually make an impact on the weather through their draconian plans to steal our freedom and our prosperity, their goal of lowering temperatures would be, at best, a net plus for some and a net negative for others. It would almost certainly result in less food production, for example. Consider that as we begin to see food shortages and rationing around the globe due to much less significant central planning efforts already under way.

To review and summarize, then, what we’re left with, when it comes to the global warming agenda, is a fraudulent crisis cooked up to control and enslave the world’s population under the guide of benevolent global socialism and an equally fraudulent solution to that crisis – one that would be a bad idea even if it could work, which it can’t!

Do I have this about right?

I have been saying all along that the global warming hype is just a global governance power grab to control everything. It all fits the sustainable development plan of the U.N. It is not a conspiracy it is a real published U.N. plan called Agenda 21. They want to manage everyone and everything in the world.

I think Tom Deweese does a good job expressing what is really going on in this article. After reading this article you should know why most of your politicians have done nothing but hinder the development of our known energy resources. The oil shortages and the media’s daily global warming carbon lies have been designed for the purpose of global governance.

Going Green = $4 Per Gallon - CWN

Going green (its real name is sustainable development) has led to Orwellian regulations resulting in the destruction of American businesses and the jobs that go with them, including manufacturing and industry; the locking away of American natural resources like oil, timber and minerals, forcing expensive imports; the near abolishment of private property, the bedrock of any economy’s source of wealth; and massive invasion of the farming industry to assure it is “sustainable,” including the mandated use of corn for the making of ethanol, leading to food shortages and higher prices.

Above all, the “go green” mindset has resulted in a refusal by political leaders and Congress to even consider anything but renewable fuels as a legitimate source of energy. Last year’s Energy bill, supposed to be the guideline for energy policy for coming years, literally made no mention of any kind of energy but alternative fuels like wind power, solar and ethanol. And the American people, buried under an avalanche of environmentally-correct propaganda, have blindly accepted the go green mantra, missing its connection to their economic woes.

At a time when the nation is facing an economic meltdown because of rising gas prices, oil use is ignored in the most important energy policy in the nation. Astonishing. As prices continue to rise, Washington’s response is “there’s nothing we can do. “President Bush says, “I wish I had a magic wand.” John McCain says “prices will continue to rise.” Barack Obama says “tax the oil companies,” as Congress begins a witch hunt on them, pledging the get to the bottom of their “excess profits.” Senator Barbara Boxer says “now is the best time to raise energy prices.” The Democrats want to “sue” OPEC.”

In all of this rhetoric, notice how NO action that includes the drilling of oil is considered. It’s taboo. Off the table. Suffer America, because the wisdom of the day is that oil is out. Alternatives are in. Go green! This, of course, completely ignores the fact that the U.S. uses oil for 85% of its energy needs.

Such policy is driven by the Sustainable Development lobby. Led by massively wealthy and powerful special interests like the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, the National Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice, to name a very few. With their dollars and lobbyists, they are forcing Congress to implement the policies outlined in the UN’s Agenda 21 soft law document. It pretends to be environmental policy, but is really a complete transformation of our society and economy to a top down control, leading toward global governance. The environment is just the excuse to convince unaware Americans to give up their liberties “to save the earth.”

I guess you heard the reports that there would be a record ice melt at the North Pole this year and how bad things are getting at the poles. Don’t believe everything you read or see on the global warming bought and paid for media. The latest reports came from someones delusions.

Chicken Little and the North Pole Icecap - HUMAN EVENTS

Here’s the deal, folks: the planet as a whole is cooling and is projected to do for decades. The Antarctic has 1 million square kilometers more ice than a year ago when it set an ice record. It is warming at one pole, the one up north, which is not greenhouse warming, which would be a warming at both. Yet the northern hemisphere has 1 million square kilometers more ice than it did last year at this time. World sea ice is at or near a modern high, despite modern measurements beginning in the coldest decade of the past century. You can look these things up. It’s called climate. Which changes. Always.

Global warming has been discredited but the lies go on and on like the energizer bunny. Someone should tap the source of the energy in all the global warming gas bags and we would solve the energy crises.

By the way, coal prices are falling because Europe is cutting back on coal because of their fear of CO2 emissions. If we had any brains we would now use this opportunity to convert coal into oil. Not that America is going to stop worshiping their own global warming gas bags anytime soon.

The real reason people want to believe that global warming is man caused is that they know they are guilty of defiling the planet but like all pagans they think they can fix spiritual defilement with some physical appeasement. They think they can just go to high priest Al Gore, buy indulgences from Carbon Gaia and Gore will give them absolution to continue to spiritually defile the planet.

Global View - WSJ.com

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass hysteria phenomenon known as global warming. Much of the science has since been discredited. Now it’s time for political scientists, theologians and psychiatrists to weigh in.

This last item is, of course, a forecast, not an empirical observation. But it raises a useful question: If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn’t evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn’t mean God doesn’t exist, or that global warming isn’t happening. It does mean it isn’t science.

So let’s stop fussing about the interpretation of ice core samples from the South Pole and temperature readings in the troposphere. The real place where discussions of global warming belong is in the realm of belief, and particularly the motives for belief.

That would answer why the earth grows colder but ice coverage grows smaller in the Arctic. Don’t expect major media to say anything about this report.

American Thinker Blog: Arctic ice melt may be due to undersea volcanoes

The Arctic ice that is supposedly melting, stranding those cuddly looking polar bears, just might be affected by a wave of volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor under the Arctic ice cap. AFP reports on the recently-documented volcanoes, but oddly makes no mention of the possible effect on apocalyptic predictions of global warming.

Seems that James Hansen of NASA has been getting some cash from questionable sources to keep his global warming hype racket going. He says the fossil fuel people should be put on trial for claiming that global warming is not a man caused or a serious problem. Well the truth is, it is not a serious problem and the fossil fuel people generally have not even taken a position on the issue. They certainly are not funding a disinformation campaign but I do not think the same thing can be said about Mr. Hansen or Al Gore. Al Gore is putting up $300 million to brainwash people on major medias. Someone should put James Hansen on trial for using his office to betray the public trust.

American Thinker: James Hansen: Abusing the Public Trust

Topping it all, Hansen has allegedly received hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to further politicize the issue of global warming. According to Investors Business Daily, “How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely ‘NASA whistleblower’ standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by [George] Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI), which gave him ‘legal and media advice’? That’s right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros’ flagship ‘philanthropy’ by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI’s ‘politicization of science’ program.”

Hansen denied any relationship with OSI, but Investor’s Business Daily refused to back off on their story, “claiming the funding first passed through the Government Accountability Project, which then used it to package Hansen for the media.”

With that kind of cash allegedly lining his pockets, do you think that Hansen will ever allow the data that he is charged with maintaining to point to anything but disaster?

In talk-radio such conflicting activities would be deemed “payola” with the guilty party booted out the door. For the sake of truth, and the proper use of the taxpayer’s dollar, James Hansen needs to be relieved of his NASA duties.

Show Mr. Hansen the door — for the sake of humanit

James Hansen of NASA is totally out of touch with most of the rest of climate scientists. It is amazing that such a buffoon speaks for NASA. The idea to blame fossil fuel companies is laughable, what does he expect us to use for energy?

I dare them to bring this court. It will backfire in their faces. The science is there to refute man caused global warming but over 95 percent of the money now comes from those who blame man for global warming. Just give the oil companies a good reason to put up their money to present the real evidence and we will soon get this carbon monkey off of our back. One could only hope that Hansen gets his wish and that large fossil fuel companies are put on trial. Only then will the global warming fraud be
exposed for what it is.

It is not like Hansen does not have a vested interest since he was one of the people that started this man caused global warming hype twenty years ago. Now we are seeing that the earth is actually cooling and he is in panic mode claiming a conspiracy of doubt by the energy companies. James Hansen and Al Gore will live in denial even if we go through an ice age.

Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist | Environment | The Guardian

James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech (pdf) to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the “perfect storm” of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable.

Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading.

This article points out how global warming hype at the UN is a political process not any scientific consensus that man is causing climate change. It is a top level scheme for global taxation. Much the same is being done in the major industrial nations. The elite power brokers in government and media cannot peddle the climate change lies fast enough but there is little real science behind what they claim.

They make movies and TV programs to cause fear that tell us how man caused climate change will cause huge catastrophes on the earth. This is all part of a lying propaganda campaign. They tell you how the latest storms are caused by global warming and that these events will increase in the future but they have no science behind their agenda of fear. How could the flood events in the Midwest be caused by global warming when the earth is cooler this year then it has been for almost a hundred years? The floods are really partly the result of an unusually cool Pacific this year. They should be sued for fraud.

You might wonder why the media is lying to you, you might wonder why Al Gore is lying to you, you might wonder why all globalist controlled politicians are lying to you. It is because the real agenda is getting control of and managing everyone on earth. Carbon legislation and the fear of global warming is the way they intend to bring in bureaucratic world governance over everyone.

Most have no idea how far they intend to take this scheme. Everything everyone does will be evaluated through carbon censor control freaks and you will comply or you will be fined or imprisoned. It will start with carbon and then it will spread to food, energy, religion and every other manageable area that they can dream up. This is nothing but a scheme to bring in Big Brother fascist world socialism. The earth is to become a giant global beehive with the elite being the queen bees. They are using irrational fears that they implanted in your brain through media lies and they are getting away with it. People have obviously lost their ability to reason or they would tar and feather these people.

The facts are that the earth has not warmed in a decade and it is now cooling. So they tell you the earth is talking a warming break but it will start warming again. Well, give me a break! Says who? Not any scientific consensus and IPCC and Al Gore do not speak for science they speak for global government. Meanwhile the politicians that you elected and that you are electing are planing to implement the biggest tax and control scheme in the history of the world!

Scientist: ‘Global warming’
scheme to push global tax

“The IPCC provides its reports at regular intervals and they immediately become standard works of reference, widely used by policymakers, experts and students,” the organization itself says. .

The IPCC conferences do, in fact, feature “a few hundred” people, including some with formal educations in science, some actively engaged in scientific work, some retired, holding discussions on “the entirely unsolved problem of climate prediction for time periods decades and even centuries in the future,” said Robinson, who also publishes the Access to Energy newsletter. In 1973, Robinson co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine with Linus Pauling.

“The primary requirement for selection is a willingness to participate in the United Nations’ new ‘process’ and the agenda behind it,” Robinson said. “These people study and discuss the current and past research literature concerning climate and climate prediction. … These emanations are closely observed by a very select small group of United Nations operatives.”

At the end of the meetings, “this small group of observers combines the products of the meeting into a large important-looking report – carefully editing the report so that it supports United Nations political objectives,” Robinson said. “At no time is this report submitted to the 600-plus ’scientists.’”

The results then are distributed as “settled science,” he said, “regardless of the fact that the scientists involved do not agree upon the text. … The elite few who oversaw the meeting and interpreted its results are special. They are the U.N.’s anointed messengers of the truth.”

“In the present case in which United Nations apparatchiks have proclaimed that human activity is catastrophically warming the planet, the human cost of error is so great than many other scientists have become motivated to individually examine the evidence. Now, a total of more than 9,000 Americans with Ph.D.s in science and therefore professional educational credentials that, on average, equal or surpass the United Nations 600 – and a total of more than 31,000 Americans with at least B.S. degrees in science have signed a petition to the U.S. government specifically rejecting the United Nations claim that human use of hydrocarbon energy is injuring the climate,” Robinson said.

“In fact, the 31,000 scientists state that carbon dioxide released by energy production is actually beneficial to the environment,” he said.

“It is time to kill this counterproductive virus that has sickened American science and engineering, and get on with the job of expanding the American hydrocarbon and nuclear energy industries. To do less poses a terrible risk to America’s prosperity and to her future,” he said.

This article tells how Al Gore used his political power to channel money to spread his global warming apocalyptic lies in order to transform society to his socialist vision of world governance through “enlightened” people like himself. Gore is one of the top con artists of our time who uses peoples fears and peoples greed for money and power. Al Gore especially likes to scare children and the gullible to create a sense of panic. His real agenda is leftist fascist eco-extremism. You probably have about one year to prick this gas bag or laws will already be set in place to eventually tax, control and regulate everyone and every product on earth.

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“Cynical politics” may be a redundancy, but it is hard to imagine a more cynical political issue than global warming (GW). In his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, Al Gore called for a “wrenching transformation of society.” Leftists, with their elitist penchant for social engineering, didn’t need any convincing. The challenge for Gore was the inconvenient truth that, in a democracy, a would-be central planner needs to get the masses on his side, too. To do that, he borrowed a strategy encapsulated in H.L. Mencken’s statement, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Apocalyptic GW became Al Gore’s hobgoblin of choice.

Gore needed the scientific community to back up his assertions and the media to spread the word. Enlisting the help of the media was easy (apocalyptic fantasies are sure ratings winners), but getting enough scientists on board was trickier. When Gore started his GW campaign in the early 1990s, a contemporary Gallup poll of scientists showed that only 18 percent thought there was any evidence to support Gore’s theory. Even a survey conducted by Greenpeace found only 13 percent of climatologists willing to declare GW “probable.”

Nevertheless, Gore repeatedly claimed that (literally) 98 percent of scientists agreed with him, and he exhorted reporters to ignore skeptics. Right from the outset, the GW cult (like other illiberal movements, such as communism and fascism) had to resort to the “big lie” technique to make it appear that the science of GW was settled.

Kyoto’s agenda wasn’t to save the world, but to shackle economic activity in this country through curbing energy consumption. It’s easy to understand why foreign economic competitors would want this, but why would Gore and American liberals want to do this to the American people? The answer is simple: the lust for power and importance. Remember: control energy and you control people.

John Coleman is the founder of the Weather Channel. He has come out strongly against man caused global warming. In this speech he covers a broad range of issues, a few excerpts are posted below but I suggest that you read the entire speech.

Coleman make it clear that this has become one of the most important issues of our time because the actions man takes on this issue will impact our civilization for decades.

To me this issue is a no brainier but read the opinion of this expert instead of just listening to real no brainier’s spouting global warming drivel on major media.

CO2 is a trace gas and man’s contribution to the atmosphere is a small percent of that trace. It cannot contribute much to global warming in spite of the hype you hear from those on the global warming gravy train. The the real green house gas on this planet that impacts temperature is water vapor.

If you want $10 a gallon gas, heating bills that are higher then your mortgage payment, double electric rates, carbon taxes on everything, higher prices for everything, less food, more government control over every aspect of your life and to be made the fool then do nothing. Politicians at all levels of government and multi national corporations are now planning to bring this tragedy on everyone under the guise of saving the planet from a gas that is environmentally friendly at any levels man could achieve.

John Coleman’s Comments Before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce | KUSI - News, Weather and Sports - San Diego, CA | Coleman’s Corner

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas.

the global temperatures have gone into decline. Earth has cooled for almost ten straight years. So, I ask Al Gore, where’s the global warming?

The cooling trend is so strong that recently the head of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to acknowledge it. He speculated that nature has temporarily overwhelmed mankind’s warming and it may be ten years or so before the warming returns. Oh, really. We are supposed to be in a panic about man-made global warming and the whole thing takes a ten year break because of the lack of Sun spots. If this weren’t so serious, it would be laughable.

Now allow me to talk a little about the science behind the global warming frenzy. I have dug through thousands of pages of research papers, including the voluminous documents published by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I have worked my way through complicated math and complex theories. Here’s the bottom line: the entire global warming scientific case is based on the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuels. They don’t have any other issue. Carbon Dioxide, that’s it.

Hello Al Gore; Hello UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Your science is flawed; your hypothesis is wrong; your data is manipulated. And, may I add, your scare tactics are deplorable. The Earth does not have a fever. Carbon dioxide does not cause significant global warming.

All the computer models, all of the other findings, all of the other angles of study, all come back to and are based on CO2 as a significant greenhouse gas. It is not.

Here is the deal about CO2, carbon dioxide. It is a natural component of our atmosphere. It has been there since time began. It is absorbed and emitted by the oceans. It is used by every living plant to trigger photosynthesis. Nothing would be green without it. And we humans; we create it. Every time we breathe out, we emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It is not a pollutant. It is not smog. It is a naturally occurring invisible gas.

Let me illustrate. I estimate that this square in front of my face contains 100,000 molecules of atmosphere. Of those 100,000 only 38 are CO2; 38 out of a hundred thousand. That makes it a trace component. Let me ask a key question: how can this tiny trace upset the entire balance of the climate of Earth? It can’t. That’s all there is to it; it can’t.

Numerous independent research projects have been done about the greenhouse impact from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. These studies have proven to my total satisfaction that CO2 is not creating a major greenhouse effect and is not causing an increase in temperatures.

So with the environmentalists, the UN, Gore and Hollywood touting Global Warming and predictions of doom and gloom, the media has scrambled with excitement to climb aboard. After all the media loves a crisis. From YK2 to killer bees the media just loves to tell us our lives are threatened. And the media is biased toward liberal, so it’s pre-programmed to support Al Gore and UN. CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press and here in San Diego The Union Tribune are all constantly promoting the global warming crisis.

So who is going to go against all of that power? Not the politicians. So now the President of the United States, just about every Governor, most Senators and most Congress people, both of the major current candidates for President, most other elected officials on all levels of government are all riding the Al Gore Global Warming express. That is one crowded bus.

The battle against fossil fuels has controlled policy in this country for decades. It was the environmentalist’s prime force in blocking any drilling for oil in this country and the blocking the building of any new refineries, as well. So now the shortage they created has sent gasoline prices soaring. And, it has lead to the folly of ethanol, which is also partly behind the fuel price increases; that and our restricted oil policy. The ethanol folly is also creating a food crisis throughput the world – it is behind the food price rises for all the grains, for cereals, bread, everything that relies on corn or soy or wheat, including animals that are fed corn, most processed foods that use corn oil or soybean oil or corn syrup. Food shortages or high costs have led to food riots in some third world countries and made the cost of eating out or at home budget busting for many.

So now the global warming myth actually has lead to the chaos we are now enduring with energy and food prices. We pay for it every time we fill our gas tanks. Not only is it running up gasoline prices, it has changed government policy impacting our taxes, our utility bills and the entire focus of government funding. And, now the Congress is considering a cap and trade carbon credits policy. We the citizens will pay for that, too. It all ends up in our taxes and the price of goods and services.

So the Global warming frenzy is, indeed, threatening our civilization. Not because global warming is real; it is not. But because of the all the horrible side effects of the global warming scam.

If Al Gore and his global warming scare dictates the future policy of our governments, the current economic downturn could indeed become a recession, drift into a depression and our modern civilization could fall into an abyss. And it would largely be a direct result of the global warming frenzy.

We had a minor heat spell in the East recently it did not last long. The projection for next week in the Northeast is unseasonably cold. The violent wet weather in the Mid-West is due to unusually cold air clashing with the warmer air to the south and as this article indicates it has been very cold in the Northwest.

Your not hearing about melting polar ice caps this year because it is not melting like last year. Ice breakers are still not making it through. It seems that the earth’s climate has changed for the colder in the last two years but all you hear from the controlled media is the politically correct global warming hype.

If the present crew in Washington are too stupid to figure out that there in no global warming crises. I say get rid of the whole lot before they impose trillion dollar carbon tax schemes on everyone. That is their plan. Also put Al Gore in a padded room so he cannot cause more damage then he already has.

Will Media Report Cold Spells This Summer or Only the Heatwaves? | NewsBusters.org

Media have been falling all over themselves to report the recent heatwave in the East, but have been ignoring the cold spells happening in other parts of the country at virtually the same time.

For instance, did you know that the first week of June was the coldest in Seattle since 1891? Or that Aspen is actually re-opening this weekend to offer winter sports enthusiasts some rare June skiing in the area? Or how about the fact that unusually cold waters off of Nova Scotia are harming this year’s lobster crop?

Aren’t such unseasonal weather events just as newsworthy as heatwaves in summer? Or must they be ignored to fit the media’s global warming template?

I agree with Joe Farah on the “Drill for American oil NOW!” campaign. I have brought up the same issues he does in this article. Unlike him I do not think nuclear is a solution. It would take ten years to get a plant built, nuclear costs too much and with terrorism and earth upheavals nuclear plant could be catastrophic.

The WHOLE energy problem right now is created by politicians. If politicians would just get out of the way there would be plenty of energy available in the U.S. in fairly short order.

Oil drilling in Alaska and off shore would do much to solve the short term problem.

Lifting the restrictions on drilling and development of oil shale resources would solve the problem five to ten years down the line. Do you realize that we can get oil out of oil shale for less than $30 a barrel and we have oil reserves much larger than those of Saudi Arabia? We could pump shale oil for hundreds of years. The new techniques that are in pilot project stage right now are not environmentally unfriendly. There would only be one oil well per 640 acres of grazing land in Eastern Colorado and North Dakota. That seems more environmental friendly than the windmills I see around here every 40 acres that produce electric at the energy equivalent of more than $500 a barrel oil.

The other thing causing unnecessary energy problems and which will make them worse in the future is the global warming hype. Increases in CO2 actually benefit plants on earth and 31,000 scientists signed a statement saying that there isn’t any man caused global warming danger. We have the largest coal reserves in the world but new coal plants that can provide low cost energy and synthetic oil are being stopped by those who exhale climate change junk science.

So the bottom line is that we have the means to obtain cheap energy in short order but unless you tell your politicians that are knee jerking to Al Gore’s religious crusade to get out of the way you can expect to pay $10 a gallon for gas in the middle of an inflationary great depression.

That’s your choices, MAYBE one half of one degree warming over the next hundred years and drilling where other countries are drilling or two decades of inflationary depression and poverty. Let your politicians know which choice you have made now!

Drill for American oil NOW!

The average price of regular gas went up to $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend.

How much higher will the price have to go before Americans demand prohibitions and restrictions on domestic oil drilling be lifted?

“Drill for American oil NOW!”

It’s more than gas prices at stake. The price of just about everything is rising as a result of skyrocketing oil prices controlled not by Americans but by foreigners – even foreigners hostile to American interests.

As simply a matter of national security, it doesn’t make any sense not to drill. But now that we’re all feeling the pinch in our pocketbooks, I believe the time is right for a national uprising.

Are you with me?

Will you join the crusade?

The last I heard the cost of reducing man made CO2 will cost the world about $45 trillion dollars. Read the below article and put this in perspective. Man caused CO2 in relation to our atmosphere represents a dime standing on its edge on a hundred yard football field. If we went all out to reduce CO2 it would be represented by a dust speck on that dime. (Any reductions in temperature after spending this $45 trillion dollars would not even be measurable on normal thermometers even if CO2 driven warming theory were true and it is not)

Now don’t you think it is time to tell your representatives to stop this carbon tax foolishness that will wreak economies, needlessly drive up the price of energy and cause the poorest people on this planet great hardship and even starvation? If your still not getting it I do not know how we can made it any clearing to you? There is no man caused global warming crises! If you still believe you obviously just have blind faith in your global carbon priests.

American Thinker: Global Whining vs. the Truth

Thus, the biggest chunk of global warming that has supposedly coincided with the Industrial Revolution and the increase in evil carbon dioxide, mostly occurred after the Little Ice Age and prior to 1940.

And Congress needs to understand this: carbon dioxide is not our foe. It is a fertilizer that is essential for life on planet earth; it is no more a poison or pollutant than oxygen or water.

In his must-read eco-thriller, State of Fear, Michael Crichton creates a brilliant visual to assist us in wrapping our minds around the components of Earth’s atmosphere. On page 387, he likens the atmosphere to a football field. The goal line to the 78 yard-line contains nothing but nitrogen. Oxygen fills the next 21 yards to the 99 yard-line. The final yard, except for four inches, is argon, a wonderfully mysterious inert gas useful for putting out electronic fires. Three of the remaining four inches is crammed with a variety of minor, but essential, gases like neon, helium, hydrogen and methane. And the last inch? Carbon dioxide. One inch out of a hundred-yard field! At this point I like to add, if you were in the stands looking down on the action, you would need binoculars to see the width of that line. And the most important point-how much of that last inch is contributed by man-made activities? Envision a line about as thin as a dime standing on edge.

Are you still worried about the dangers of CO2?

Me, neither.

This is one great article about all the different aspects of global warming and it has the very latest information. This one article alone should make you question the sanity or honesty of many well known people promoting carbon legislation.

One demented preacher in the news today said that man caused global warming deniers are like child molesters. I want to reply to him that those who promote this carbon hoax on the world are murders! They are causing legislation and unnecessary burdens that will bring untold misery and death to many of the poor of the world. It will even cause famine and revolutions. But what do they care, many leading this facade think that poor people are useless eaters that the world would be better off without anyway.

If that is not enough carbon legislation will bring in world fascist where everything everyone does in the world will be controlled by carbon bean counters controlled by unelected elitist global governors.

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The scientific consensus today is slowly beginning to shift away from the catastrophism of Gore, Suzuki and the United Nations IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, to suggest that the human contribution to global warming is far less than originally assumed and that a meteorological calamity is highly unlikely. (The IPCC, which certified and entrenched the so-called “scientific consensus,” is essentially a political body with an agenda of its own.) See Inhofe EPW Press Blog, Daily Tech online, and the journal Energy and Environment, whose findings are based on a survey of the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Web of Science database covering almost 9000 scientific publications.

Other reports conclude that “solar variability” is the major component in climate change and will run its course regardless of human intervention. As David Douglass writes in the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society (December 2007), in a peer-reviewed article co-authored with several prominent scientists, “The observed pattern of warming . . . does not show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming. The inescapable conclusion is that the human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming.”

The most sophisticated climate models indicate an undeniable discrepancy between surface and tropospheric temperature changes, which points to the sun as the primary agent in the long-term, fluctuating temperature curve. John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, patiently explains that the sun, which contains 99.8% of the mass of the solar system, in its hydrogen-fueled atomic fusion process, “consumes more mass in a second than all the fossil fuel ever burned on Earth,” the terrestrial impact of which reduces the human input to global warming to a level of insignificance. Though Coleman doesn’t cite actual figures, the fact is that the sun pours in excess of a million billion megawatt-hours annually on the earth. But he does quote the highly respected Australian mathematician and former carbon consultant for the Australian government, David Evans, who argues that “carbon emissions don’t cause global warming.” According to Evans, the IPCC models are wrong and the mathematics show that the human signature in the atmosphere is missing (KUSI News online, November 8, 2007).

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, author of the soon-to-be-translated Blue Planet in Green Chains, is on the mark when he warns of the irrationality of the bullish “global warming” industry: “As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism . . . Let us not scare ourselves with catastrophic forecasts, or use them to defend and promote irrational interventions in human lives”

NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin, who has professed some skepticism about certain aspects of global warming research, especially with regard to theoretical computer models that tend, as he says, to run before they have learned to walk, was startled to realize that “you can’t express any sort of contrary opinion or a comment without it being treated almost as a religious issue” (Newsmax.com, March 17, 2008). The doxastic progression here is: science-politics-religion. To use Irving Kristol’s word, human beings are, whether we like it or not, “theotropic” beings.

Indeed, the metamorphosis of politics into a debased form of religion may be the bedrock definition of that otherwise debatable term, “fascism,” further specified as “ecofascism” by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudermaier in their book of that title.

Dr. West is correct their models are wrong but the Army is already backtracking. Dr. West has just endangered his carrier as have many who have taken the stand that global warming is mostly not anthropogenic. That is the inconvenient truth. Either you tow the offical party line or your career is toast.

Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change | Danger Room from Wired.com

In the March, 2008 issue of Physics Today, West, the chief scientist of the Army Research Office’s mathematical and information science directorate, wrote that “the Sun’s turbulent dynamics” are linked with the Earth’s complex ecosystem. These connections are what is heating up the planet. “The Sun could account for as much as 69 percent of the increase in Earth’s average temperature,” West noted.

It’s a position that puts West at odds with nearly every major scientific organization on the planet. “The American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling,” Science magazine observes. So has the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, for their work on global warming.

West acknowledges that the IPCC and other scientific groups have “conclude[d] that the contribution of solar variability to global warming is negligible.” He argues that these groups have done a poor job modeling the Sun’s impact, however, and that’s why they have “significantly over-estimated” the “anthropogenic contribution to global warming.”

UPDATE: “The Army does not have a position on global warming. Dr. West is an Army chief scientist, and is presenting one alternative theory to the cause of global warming,” Army spokesperson Lindy Dinklage tells Danger Room. “This research is just some amongst thousands of studies being conducted by Army Scientists across the globe.”

Okay. But the Army’s Office of the Chief of Public Affairs chose to promote just this one study. And when Army public affairs rolls out research from an Army chief scientist — with no clarifications that these are just his private views — I think it’s fair to call that an official endorsement.

The Senate is now debating a bill that would be the biggest hidden tax increase in the history of this nation. It probably does not have the votes to pass this year and Bush will veto it anyway. However, what they are doing is laying the ground work for next year when they think they will have the votes to pass it and know they will have a President that will sign it.

This legislation is plain nuts. But the politicians want to be seen as doing something about global warming because so many people in the U.S. have allowed themselves to be brainwashed by the media and Al Gore. Politicians want to get reelected and they are not going to take a unpopular stand. The truth of the matter is that most American people have no idea what this will cost them and they do not know the true facts about Global warming either. If they do not get educated in the next 7 months they better get ready for a great depression that will lower their living standards in half.

You must understand that even without this carbon tax legislations the U.S is likely to be in for an extended downturn by early next decade. The government is planning additional social give away programs that will increase taxes and stifle our economy. The retiring of the baby boon generation will lead to a fall of our productivity and our $50 trillion unfunded liability debt to pay for social security and Medicare makes it certain that American’s standard of living will continue to decline for decades. Add the cost of this carbon tax to the mix and I hope you like living on rice and beans in your un-air conditioned home and taking public transportation everywhere for the next fifty years. Expect a living standard much like that of those living in Mexico today. So who will you blame when you get what you asked for?

We Don’t Need a Climate Tax on the Poor - WSJ.com

With average gas prices across the country approaching $4 a gallon, it may be hard to believe, but the U.S. Senate is considering legislation this week that will further drive up the cost at the pump.

The Senate is debating a global warming bill that will create the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR’s New Deal, complete with a brand new, unelected bureaucracy. The Lieberman-Warner bill (America’s Climate Security Act) represents the largest tax increase in U.S. history and the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways. Well-heeled lobbyists are already plotting how to divide up the federal largesse. The handouts offered by the sponsors of this bill come straight from the pockets of families and workers in the form of lost jobs, higher gas, power and heating bills, and more expensive consumer goods

Let me end with a challenge to my colleagues. Will you dare stand on the Senate floor in these uncertain economic times and vote in favor of significantly increasing the price of gas at the pump, losing millions of American jobs, creating a huge new bureaucracy and raising taxes by record amounts? The American people deserve and expect a full debate on this legislation.

Mr. Inhofe, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, is ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee.