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May 2012
Meet Romney’s-and Obama’s-Climate Change Advisor
That was then. As with his positions on other hot button issues, Romney’s stance on global warming shifted after he started making plans to enter the 2008 presidential race. He went from stating that global warming is real and “human activity is a contributing factor” to declaring “we don’t know what’s causing climate change.” So what does the presumptive GOP nominee really believe? And how would he address climate change if elected president? One person who may well know is Gina McCarthy, who Romney tapped for top environmental posts in Massachusetts. But these days she’s not talking–presumably because she’s working for President Barack Obama as a top-ranking political appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency. Yes, Romney once handed his state’s environmental portfolio to a woman who now handles climate change matters for Obama.
Global warming skeptics as knowledgeable about science as climate change believers, study says
The quiz, containing 22 questions about both science and statistics, was given to 1,540 representative Americans. Respondents who were relatively less worried about global warming got 57 percent of them right, on average, just barely outscoring those whose who saw global warming as a bigger threat. They got 56 percent of the questions correct.
Heavy ice could delay start of Shell Alaska’s Arctic drilling
phys.org The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August, a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said. Unveiling a newly refurbished ice-class rig that is poised to begin drilling …
Group That Admitted Manufacturing Global Warming Threat Still Pushes Same Hoax
“In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. All these dangers are caused by human intervention… The real enemy, then, is humanity itself,” states the report, which can be read in full at the end of this article.
Minnesota “Drought Floods”
The government forecasters (NOAA) claims we’re in a long term moderate to severe drought LINK HERE here is Minnesota.
But the reality is quite different. Most of the “Moderate to Severe Long Term drought areas have seen 200% to 600% of “normal” rainfall over last 30 days.
Dinosaur Farts Caused Jurassic Global Warming
Sauropods were massive land animals that grazed on vegetation–but it’s the microscopic organisms living inside them that were responsible for the gas. David Wilkinson, one of the researchers, explains to the BBC:
RNC tells Nevada “NO RON PAUL DELEGATES”
I wonder why they’re doing this? It could be that the Ron Paul people are taking over a lot of State conventions across the country and nominating delegates to the Republican National Convention.
EPA manager who called ‘crucify’ quits
“As I have expressed publicly, and to you directly, I regret comments I made several years ago that do not in any way reflect my work as regional administrator,” he wrote. “As importantly, they do not represent the work you have overseen as EPA administrator.”