“ A GREEN TAX REVOLT IN BRITAIN: It seems large majorities of voters believe that climate-change talk is mostly an excuse to raise taxes. So is this in spite of all the PR about global warming, or because of all the PR about global warming? It’s been pretty heavy-handed. Anyway, as I’ve said before, this is why if you want to implement carbon taxes, etc., they need to be revenue-neutral. And it’s also why, if our “leaders” want us to treat this as a crisis justifying public sacrifice, those leaders need to act as if it’s such a crisis themselves.
No Moss Here
May 11, 2008
“ I voted for the Democrats because I didn’t like the way the Republicans were running the country. Which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache.
May 10, 2008
May 9, 2008
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At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”
C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, “The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.”
“ Libertarian authors are, for the most part, constitutionally incapable of lecturing an audience on merely one political question; they want to convince you on all of them, and all at once.
NewsBusted May 9, 2008
2 days ago
May 8, 2008
“ Why would she make something up? Because she’s a flake, and a poser, and an attention-seeking diva. And that’s on the record.
“ That’s not carbon credit trading, it’s Democracy Offsets: you’re paying tyrants and thugs to stay in power and keep their nation from developing.