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No to Kyoto and Other Economy Wrecking Climate Policies is the Right Choice for Kerry

During the Presidential primaries, Senator John Kerry quietly renounced support for the Kyoto treaty on global warming. More recently, the Democratic party surreptitiously removed support for Kyoto – a treaty that their party’s leaders, then President Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore, negotiated – from the Democratic Party Platform.

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Blackout: Getting the Electricity Provisions Right

With the anniversary of 2003’s power blackout of much of the upper-Midwest and North Eastern coast coming up on August 14 th, and the recent power black out in Athens in the headlines, a question comes to mind: Has much changed since last year to prevent future power outages? Unfortunately, the answer is no.

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Breaking the "Hockey Stick"

The amount and rate of the earth’s current temperature rise is unprecedented in the past (pick your time period, i.e., one thousand, two thousand, ten thousand) years. This is one of the central articles of faith on which climate alarmists agree. It is not open to challenge or debate within the environmental community. It should be.

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Recycling is a Waste

Americans love recycling. Garage sales have long been popular. Second-hand clothing stores are all the rage.

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Summer Brings Out The Global Warming Alarmists

Summer is now in full swing and the annual pastime of tracking the temperature gauge is about to begin. If this year is anything like recent years, as the mercury goes up, so will the proclamations from environmental activists that the past decade has been the warmest on record – evidence they say of human-induced global warming.

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