http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz The Truth About Global Warming, Ethanol Gas and Politics Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:35:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love the global warmers, any minute variation in the days weather that favors their viewpoint is reported as irrefutable proof of their thesis. But, when the opposite happens, we hear "another uneducated poster has confused the global climate with the weather in one place on earth for a short period ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/203 President elect sets out on agenda to revive frightening Lieberman/Warner legislation President elect Barack Obama used his speech at a Los Angeles summit last night to reinvigorate a push for the revival of a frightening proposal to slash carbon emissions by 80 per cent, a move that would inflict a new ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/201 Now that Obama is our new fearless leader, everything is going to be just fine. There will be no more war, we'll have Government Health Care, all our mortgages will be forgiven. It will all be just Rainbows and Butterflies. And now we can finally address Global Warming, we aren't ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/199 Even if you believe CO2 emissions cause global warming, there are unintended consequences when the government tries to solve this hyped problem. The Wall Street Journal reports that a proposal circulating in Britain would establish personal CO2 rationing. Each person would be allotted some CO2 emissions. Every gasoline purchase, air conditioner turned ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/198 Our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming -- the folks who brought us the fabulous video "If We Had Some Global Warming" -- have just released a new number deliciously set to John Lennon's "Imagine." httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF5F6eYho8U httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/197 Moscow – The nations with the world's three biggest reserves of natural gas – Russia, Iran, and Qatar – are quietly moving ahead to form a "gas OPEC," an organization modeled after the oil cartel. In Tehran last week, representatives of the Russian natural-gas monopoly Gazprom met with counterparts from Iran ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/196 (New York Times) - In case anyone was wondering if Ohio was a combat zone for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, consider that five days before the election the candidate took a 220-mile, six-stop, 12-hour bus tour across the northern breadth of the state. Along the way, he deployed his ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/195 It's slowly killing the McCain candidacy and, like most poisons, it eventually gets around to the vital organs: 59 percent of voters surveyed said that Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up 9 percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said that ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/194 Asked by a third-grader what a vice president does, Republican candidate Sarah Palin responded that the vice president is the president's "team mate" but also "runs the Senate" and "can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes." While aimed at a typical 8-year-old, ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/193 What we have here -- to borrow a line from the old movie "Cool Hand Luke" -- is a failure to communicate. By all rights, we should be having a fierce debate over the role of government. What should it do, for whom and why? What can we afford? Who ... http://ricksweblog.ebidz.biz/archives/192