Canfield & Company- global warming idealists: making Oregon poorer

Occupy Portland: You've Met Them

You already know the people who call themselves "Occupy Portland":

• The co-worker who's always late for work. 
• The bicyclist who flipped you off after you honked your horn because you almost hit her while she blasted through a red light. 
• The waiter that ignored you for your entire dinner, but followed you outside to berate you because you didn't leave a tip.
• The roommate who never washes her own dishes and is always late with her share of the rent.
• The relative who is never on time for family functions.
• The "friend" who has never returned the book you loaned to him.
• The carpooler who never, ever chips in for gas or parking.
• The co-worker who never brings anything to the office potluck, but always first in line at lunchtime.
• The bus driver that kicks moms with their screaming babies off the bus.
• The high school student on the bus or light rail train that refuses to move his man-bag so the old lady can have a seat.
• People that still have John Kerry bumper stickers on their car. 
• Retired California Probation Officers.

How The Global Warming Scam Artists Are Faking It

"Environmental extremists and global warming alarmists are in denial and running for cover.... To the extent global warming was ever valid, it is now officially over. It is time to file this theory in the dustbin of history, next to Aristotelean physics, Neptunism, the geocentric universe, phlogiston, and a plethora of other incorrect scientific theories, all of which had vocal and dogmatic supporters who cited incontrovertible evidence. Weather and climate change are natural processes beyond human control. To argue otherwise is to deny the factual evidence." -Geophysicist Dr. David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma.

Read the rest here at the American Thinker.

The Carbon Racket

Lawrence Solomon at the National Post exposes the folly and risks of emission trading systems (aka carbon cap and trade) that politicians with a "green" ideological persuasion are about to cram down our throats:

"Think we have learned our lesson about creating artificial securities, divorced from the real world and highly leveraged, so volatile and inscrutable as to be capable of sending markets into even worse hells, and entire economies into real depressions?

Think again.

Beware Of Politicians Who Promise A Free Lunch

Left wing politicians keep trying to push us toward socialism in the form of programs such as regional urban planning and arbitrary urban growth boundaries, universal health care, tax credits for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies,and carbon cap and trade programs. Many voters in Oregon think all these programs are great ideas. For those of you who think socialism is such a great idea, I have a question for you: Do you know how to catch wild pigs?

You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

The pigs that are used to the free corn start to come through the gate to eat, and then you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

Left wing politicians are fighting hard to push us toward socialism and keep spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as universal health care, tax credits for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, and carbon cap and trade programs, while we continue to lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.

Oregon's voters should always remember there is no such thing as a free Lunch!

If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, listen closely to politicians running for office this year. Listen closely to what candidates are promising you - just maybe, you will be able to tell who is about to slam the gate on America.

I can't take credit for this story- it was e-mailed to me by an acquaintance, without a source for the author. But the story itself rings true.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." - - -Thomas Jefferson

Al Gore: Sacrifice For Thee, But Not For Me

(Hat Tip to Jeff Holmes)

Global Warming Debate Over? That's Debatable

The global warming debate is over! Al Gore says so! His allies in the environmental movement are constantly telling us the debate on global warming is over. Global warming could get so bad, they tell us, that by 2015 Hillary Clinton could thaw out!

Hold on there! The debate is NOT over.

Environmentalists have attempted to shut down the global warming debate by intimidation and threats. They claim the debate is over in order to shut down discussion. Media bias has intentionally skewed public opinion on global warming. The claim of consensus regarding global warming is a lie.

Science is all about experiment, knowledge, reason, and the scientific method in the marketplace of ideas, right? If that’s true, should it include intimidation and threats? For example, Robert F. Kennedy jr., during the first “Live Earth” concert, denounce global warming skeptics by calling them’ Corporate toadies” for “villainous enemies”. He declared that holding a scientific view counter to his own was “treason”, and said, “we need to start treating them like traitors”.

The Weather Channel's Dr. Heidi Cullen called for the decertification of weathermen who were skeptical of man made global warming. Grist Magazine's staff writer David Roberts said that his solution for the "bastards" who were members of what he termed the global warming "denial industry" is, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."

A climate Nuremberg. That's frightening.

In the media, the TV networks stifle debate. The Business and Media Institute analyzed 205 network news stories about “global warming” or “climate change” between July 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007. Only 20% of stories even mentioned any alternate opinions to the so-called “consensus on the issue of global warming.

Global warming proponents overwhelmingly outnumbered those with dissenting opinions. CBS was the worst. For every skeptic, there were nearly 38 proponents featured. That’s a ratio of 38-1! Scientists made up only 15% of global warming proponents shown. The remaining 85% included celebrities, politicians, and other journalists.

The Society of Professional Journalist Code of Ethics stats journalists should “support an open exchange of ideas, even views they find repugnant.” Instead, today’s TV networks dish out global warming ideology!

Finally, consensus on global warming. Is it real? A 2007 survey of 503 climate scientists in 27 countries conducted by the GTSS Institute of Coastal research in Germany found 82% said global warming is happening, but only 56% said it’s mostly the result of human causes, and only 35% said models can accurately predict future climate conditions. Only 27% believed the current state of scientific knowledge is able to produce reasonable predictions of climate variability in time scales of 100 years. That’s no consensus!

The global warming debate is not over. Lying about consensus on global warming. Intimidation and threats. Media bias. That’s not science. That’s ideology. Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, otherwise known as the highest grossing PowerPoint presentation history, is merely bad ideology. And I have an inconvenient truth for Al Gore: Al- you’re still not the President.

35 Things Al Gore Forgot To Mention

1. Sea Levels are NOT "rising 6m."
2. Pacific Islands are NOT "drowning".
3. Thermohaline circulation is NOT "stopping".
4. CO2 is NOT "driving temperature."
5. Global Warming is NOT "melting the snows of Kilimanjaro."
6. Global Warming did NOT cause Lake Chad's "drying up."
7. Hurricane Katrina was NOT "Man made."
8. Polar Bears are NOT "dying."
9. Global Warming did not cause reef "Bleaching."
10. 11ppmv of CO2 is NOT "melting mile-thick ice."
11. Hurricane Caterina was NOT "Man made."
12. 2004 did NOT "set a new record" for Japanese typhoons.
13. Hurricanes will NOT "get stronger" because of global warming.
14. Big storm insurance losses are NOT "increasing."
15. Flooding in Mumbai is NOT "increasing."
16. Severe tornadoes have NOT been "more frequent."
17. The sun does NOT directly "Heat the Arctic ocean."
18. Arctic is NOT "Warming fastest."
19. The Greenland ice sheet is NOT "unstable."
20. Himalayan glacial melt waters are NOT "Failing."
21. Peruvian glaciers are NOT "disappearing."
22. Mountain glaciers worldwide are NOT "disappearing."
23. There is no Sahara desert "drought" caused by global warming.
24. West Antarctic ice sheet is NOT "unstable."
25. Antarctic Peninsula ice "shelve break-ups" are NOT caused by global warming.
26. The Larson B ice shelf did NOT break up because of global warming.
27. Mosquitoes are NOT climbing to higher altitudes because of global warming.
28. Tropical diseases are NOT sensitive to warmer temperature or global warming.
29. West Nile virus did NOT spread through the U.S. due to global warming.
30. Carbon dioxide is NOT "pollution."
31. The European heat wave of 2003: Global warming did NOT "kill 35,000."
32. Pied flycatchers CAN "feed their young."
33. Gore's pictures and film footage WERE bogus.
34. The Thames barrier is NOT "closing more frequently" due to global warming.
35. Al Gore's facts ARE IN DISPUTE.

Read the scentifically supported details at "35 Inconvenient Truths, The errors in Al Gore's movie", written by Christopher Monckton of Brenchly, at the Science and Public Policy Institute web site.

You can also download a PDF of the report here.

CO2 Causes Global Warming? Ice Record Refutes.

Al Gore refuses to debate his global warming "pitch" with scientists or anyone else who disagree with his conclusions. One group, DemandDebate.com, has made many requests to debate Gore. He has declined them all.

So the group created a mock debate with expert climatologists who claim there is no evidence that carbon dioxide drives global temperature change. Quite the opposite! The climatologists in this video say that the ice record indicates that CO2 level changes lag hundreds of years behind temperature change. This is the opposite of what Al Gore claims!

Watch the video. Decide for yourself