Good or bad policy?
NPR-The Bush administration is threatening to eliminate the input of federal wildlife scientists in some endangered species cases, allowing the federal agency in charge of building, authorizing or funding a project to determine for itself if it is likely to harm endangered wildlife and plants.
The rule change must be published Friday to […]

Excellent piece by Michelle Malkin………Read on…………………
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes “hand maidens of the oil companies.” Let’s call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers.
Though she seemingly backtracked on labeling drilling a “hoax” this week, Pelosi refuses to consider GOP energy proposals that […]

Who is right?
FROM USATODAY
Our view on campaign fairness: McCain attack ad cheapens campaign. More to come?
Blaming Obama for energy crisis is just silly. Focus on solutions.
Ever since gasoline prices crossed most people’s pain threshold earlier this year, the hunt for scapegoats has been in full swing. First it was oil executives, who were hauled before […]

Do you agree?
Politico-Readers of the Nation and other left-leaning magazines may have noticed a new addition to the usual advertisements — full-page advocacy ads by an ad hoc coalition of anti-immigration organizations.
The ads place the blame for traffic and sprawl, frequent villains for urban-oriented members of the left, on population growth, another such villain. […]

Agree or Disagree?
FOX- The House on Thursday defeated a Democratic-backed initiative aimed at driving gasoline costs down, and Democrats and Republicans continued to blame each other for stalling each other’s energy agendas.
Thursday’s bill would have released about 70 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, roughly a three-day supply. The reserve is designed […]

[A]ccording to NASA’s newly published data:

The hottest year on record is 1934, not 1998;
The third hottest year on record was 1921, not 2006;
Three of the five hottest years on record occurred before 1940;
Six of the top 10 hottest years occurred prior to 90 percent of the growth in greenhouse gas emissions during the last century.

~from […]

My proposed solution: let’s all go fishing!
MRW - Worm composting could be doing more harm than good to the environment, a leading researcher claimed today.
Jim Frederickson, senior research fellow at the Open Universities faculty of technology, said: “Worms produce a significant amount of greenhouse gases. Recent research done by German scientists has found […]

Within ten years, I predict that the current global warming hysteria will have gone the way of the global cooling scare of the ’70s. Any questionable movement that depends upon ever more apocalyptic pronouncements and the squashing of dissent doesn’t have the legs to last much longer. But when those on the Left begin speaking […]

How often do the cures proposed for our environmental woes prove worse than the disease? The most laughable one in recent times has to be the current proposal to force the replacement of standard lightbulbs with fluorescent ones in order to help thwart global warming - despite the fact that the latter requires mercury […]