Tag: Environment
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Articles of Interest
Houston may pay down residents’ personal debt — up to $3,000 per person — to help people buy homes (Texas Watchdog) “Houston taxpayers may foot the bill for people who want homes but can’t qualify for loans based on credit card debts, car loans or other bills.” Phony Stimulus—The Congressional Budget Office Tells It As…
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Global warming alarmism: coming to a faith-based organization near you
Has global warming alarmism become a religious issue? Judging by a recent op-ed in the Wichita Eagle, it seems so. (Moti Rieber and Connie Pace-Adair: Make clean-energy generation a priority, February 22, 2009 Wichita Eagle. Link is to article at the Eagle, or see Eagle op-ed: Clean energy is a faith issue at Rieber’s blog.)…
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Counting on Green Jobs
Those who advocate a wholesale rush into alternative energy often cite the benefit of “green jobs.” That is, by building all sorts of alternative energy projects, many people will be employed. It will be great for the economy, they say. President Barack Obama is one of these. But is it wise policy to invest in…
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Kansas Wind Power Economic Benefit in Perspective
An editorial in the Wichita Eagle that promotes wind power as an economic benefit for for Kansas contains some reasoning that deserves examination before we commit to the author’s cause.
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Kansas Climate Change Group Changes
In his piece Separate But Still the Same, climate change alarmist watchdog Paul Chesser writes “A global warming alarmist group that masqueraded for the last few years as an objective consultant for many states announced this week that it has been disowned by its global warming alarmist parents.” This article describes changes made at the…
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Kelly Wendeln on Global Warming
Kelly Wendeln speaks to the members of the Wichita City Council about global warming on February 3, 2009.
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Drinkwine editorial on Kansas carbon emissions overlooks evidence
Frank Drinkwine of the Kansas Sierra Club has an editorial in today’s Wichita Eagle that ignores some important facts.
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Why Was Al Gore There?
“The lawmakers gazed in awe at the figure before them. The Goracle had seen the future, and he had come to tell them about it.” That’s how Dana Milbank starts a report on a recent appearance by Al Gore before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The story is With Al Due Respect, We’re Doomed. Read…
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Mr. Obama, who hates the cold…
had cranked up the thermostat. So reports the New York Times in White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.” It’s good to…