At a ‘grassroots’ rally organized by the American Petroleum Institute in Houston on Tuesday, activists bearing American flags were turned away. Oil company employees were bused in to the ‘Energy Citizens’ gathering to hear billionaire Drayton McLane Jr. attack President Barack Obama’s clean energy agenda as an economy-destroying energy tax.

Recent war games and intelligence studies conclude that over the next 20 to 30 years, vulnerable regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, will face the prospect of food shortages, water crises and catastrophic flooding driven by climate change that could demand an American humanitarian relief or military response.

An exercise at the National Defense University, an educational institute overseen by the military, last December explored the potential impact of a flood in Bangladesh that sent hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into neighboring India, touching off religious conflict, the spread of contagious diseases and vast damage to infrastructure.

As for global warming, why assume that every affect will be negative? I grew up in Michigan and would have been grateful for some global warming as I waited in the dark for the school bus.

Really, Michael Barone. Shut up. Its embarrassing.

How is this one any different?

Also, John Boehner is a stupid person.

President Barack Obama began reversing the climate policies of the Bush administration on Monday, clearing the way for new rules to force auto makers to produce more fuel-efficient and less polluting cars.

The president told the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider immediately a request by California to impose its own strict limits on vehicle carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for contributing to global warming.

President-elect Barack Obama has selected two of the nation’s most prominent scientific advocates for a vigorous response to climate change to serve in his administration’s top ranks, according to sources, sending the strongest signal yet that he will reverse Bush administration policies on energy and global warming.

The appointments of Harvard University physicist John Holdren as presidential science adviser and Oregon State University marine biologist Jane Lubchenco as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which will be announced tomorrow, dismayed conservatives but heartened environmentalists and researchers.

Sorry, no room for deniers at the inn.

From a story Beck has written on CNN.com:

Perhaps most comically, Gore is seen dragging an entire film crew on a jet to India to give a climate presentation to about 100 people. Gore claimed: “We just don’t have any choice. I wish I knew a better way to do it. I constantly ask myself, ‘How can I be more effective in getting this message across?’ ” The most effective thing you can think of is flying halfway across the world to speak with 100 people?

Except Beck twisted the story. From 60 Minutes:

For now he takes his slideshow on the road. 60 Minutes went with Gore to India.

“It’s going to be so hard, so gigantically difficult to solve this problem. And expensive, no?” Stahl asked.

“It’s much more expensive not to solve it,” Gore said.

India is the world’s fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and in New Delhi Gore was teaching 100 people how to give his slideshow and spread the word.

“You’re giving talks to a hundred people. There are over a billion people in India. I mean, how do you expect to really have any kind of impact?” Stahl asked.

“This is the beginning. And then they will train others. And I will be training others,” Gore said.

Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is “hanging by a thread,” the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.

“We are in for a lot more events like this,” said professor Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Scambos alerted the British Antarctic Survey after he noticed part of the Wilkins ice shelf disintegrating on February 28, when he was looking at NASA satellite images.

It is times like this that I’m glad that I’m not tied in to any of these official churches and their inevitably flawed human leadership. My Life, The Universe And Everything is tied in to my own Deity.

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), once a
skeptic of global warming, got a hint that the political winds might be
shifting when a longtime supporter warned that he might vote against
Inglis if he “didn’t clean up his act on the environment.”

The warning came from Inglis’ eldest son, Robert Jr., now 22.

His daughter was no less blunt about the congressman’s refusal to
embrace the view that global warming was being caused by human actions
and that a serious response is needed. “I have three more kids coming
up — and they seem to share the same view,” Inglis said.

Family pressure worked. Inglis traveled to Antarctica and, most
recently, to Greenland to witness the effects of rising CO2 levels and
temperatures. He now believes the science behind global warming. And he
believes the politics are equally conclusive: Republicans will “get
hammered” if they do not reckon with the issue soon.

That’s right, the Nobel Institute is just all about getting their name out there so they can sell more copies of Nobel magazine. That Gandhi centerfold they had a few months ago was IN FUEGO.

Cheri Jacobus, your Republican idiot of the day!

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, suck it, losers.

(*Terry works with me and is a fellow one of the "most vile, despicable human beings in the country")