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For now, I’m not a believer in human-caused global warming. Yeah, the earth is heating up in some areas, and some of that may be due to human activities. But I’m not convinced that we’re on our way to hell in a handbasket. Or even to an ice age.

This NPR article provides more to consider:

The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat

Ah, the plot thickens.

Dr. Vincent Gray, a member of the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Expert Reviewers Panel, is calling for IPCC’s abolition. Find out why.

Al Gore. Nobel Peace Prize. Next president? Please, Al, say no, no, no!

Read this press release and you’ll see why I don’t support Gore.

Al Gore Should Win the Nobel Prize for Propaganda, Says JunkScience.com, New BBC Report Says Gore Knew ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Presented False Facts

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new BBC report indicates that Al Gore knew that his alarmist global warming movie presented false facts, says JunkScience.com. Al Gore apparently didn’t want to include any uncertainty in his movie because it would only fuel opponents of global warming regulation, the BBC report said.

“If this is true,” said JunkScience.com publisher Steve Milloy, “then Al Gore should win the Nobel prize for Propaganda.”

The report comes in the wake of a British judge’s ruling that “An Inconvenient Truth” can only be shown in British schools if there is a warning label about the film’s nine major factual inaccuracies and on the eve of the announcement of the Nobel Peace Price, for which Al Gore has been nominated.

The BBC report may be viewed here. [Also available here at YouTube.]

“The BBC report and judge’s ruling came as no surprise,” said Milloy. “Our YouTube video debate, entitled ‘Al Gore Debates Global Warming,’ between Gore and expert climatologists spotlights the false assertion by Gore that carbon dioxide drives global temperature,” Milloy explained.

The YouTube video may be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=XDI2NVTYRXU.

“We call on the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Prize Committee to award the prize to a deserving candidate, rather than someone who plays fast and loose with the facts to advance his personal agenda,” asked Milloy. “Also, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should revoke the Oscar ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ won for best documentary,” Milloy said.

“The real ‘inconvenient truth’ is that Gore seems to have intentionally omitted it from his movie,” Milloy added. “The Norwegian Nobel Committee and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ought not risk their brands on Al Gore’s chicanery,” Milloy concluded.

Steven J. Milloy is the founder and publisher of DemandDebate.com, JunkScience.com and CSRwatch.com; an investment adviser to the Free Enterprise Action Fund; and a columnist for FoxNews.com.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=276995581156478

Milloy isn’t the only one who has a problem with Gore’s global warming hyperbole:

• Seriously Inconvenient Truth: Producers of Gore’s Film Asked to Return Oscars
• Call to return Inconvenient Truth Oscar
• What has Al Gore done for world peace?

I love our planet. I want to see her cleaned up and healthy. But creating lies to accomplish the clean-up is just plain wrong. The cost in the end, including increased human suffering in developing nations, will be much greater than most global-warming activists realize.

Are you worried about the human-caused meltdown of Planet Earth? Are you wondering how you can reduce your carbon footprint without breaking the bank or suffering too much inconvenience?

I have good news! Humans have not caused global warming and we’re not on the brink of catastrophe.

Are you absolutely, 100 percent convinced that humans have caused our current catastrophe — and have no trouble proving it? Would you like an easy way to win a boatload of money?

More good news! You can enter The Ultimate Global Warming Challenge and win $125,000!

Learn all about global warming and the challenge at JunkScience.com.

(I could focus on the negative repercussions of the great Global Warming Hoax — and there are many — but I’m working on seeing the good side of life!)

Don’t get me wrong. Even though I believe human-caused global warming is a great swindle, I also believe that humans are polluting and destroying our environment (I don’t agree with everything on Junkscience.com!). I support researching and creating nontoxic, clean energy — and lowering my energy bill.

So, with that in mind, check out this survey from Icynene, maker of foam insulation:

Did you know that the average house produces twice the greenhouse gases of the average car? If you said “no”, you’re not alone. A new poll conducted by Ipsos Reid on behalf of Icynene has found only four percent believe their homes and offices contribute most to apparent increases in greenhouse gas emissions. To learn more about the survey and its findings, click here.

It’s hot here in Phoenix, and it’s going to get hotter. But no biggie. As long as the air conditioners work and we don’t have brownouts, we’ll be fine. Dontcha just luuuuv electricity? And so many of the modern conveniences that enhance and prolong our lives?

I just watched an interesting documentary about global warming. Ironically, those whose careers and livelihoods depend on promoting the theory of man-made global warming will find this film an inconvenient truth. Watch it when you have an hour and 13 minutes to spare and see what you think. I’ve been on the fence about this issue, but not anymore. That said, I still believe we’re doing a very good job of harming our environment in other ways.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

It’s getting to the point where I’ll no longer need to drive 30 minutes to Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods Market to get my “health” stuff. Much to my surprise, our town’s new Fry’s supermarket has a well-stocked health section. And just a few months ago Safeway introduced its O Organics line of USDA certified products. Very cool. But I’ll still do my TJ runs — they’ve got really fun food from all over the world.

Last week at Fry’s I bought several Seventh Generation nontoxic, environmentally-safe cleaning products, which I’ve been wanting to try. The company name is derived from the Iroquois belief that “in our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” I believe that environmental toxicity is one of our planet’s greatest threats. I’m on the fence in the global warming debate, but I have no doubt that we’re harming our world in other ways.

Anyway. Yesterday I used Seventh Generation’s Free & Clear Glass and Surface Cleaner to clean our bathroom mirrors and a glass-top table. Their claim that it cleans without streaks is true. I’m really impressed. No smelly ammonia, no perfume. That makes me very, very happy!

I also tried the Natural Citrus Shower Cleaner, which has a very light orangy fragrance. It also worked great. I have been using Simple Green, but I don’t care for the smell. Plus it makes my eyes water.

If every household in the U.S. replaced just one 32 oz. bottle of shower cleaner containing chlorine bleach with our hydrogen peroxide based shower cleaner, we could prevent 1 million pounds of chlorine from entering our environment.

This Sunday is Earth Day. It’s weird, but I haven’t paid much attention to environmental awareness campaigns and movements. Mostly because they’ve been so political and polarizing. But now almost everyone understands that our planet needs some TLC.

While visiting the Seventh Generation site, I saw a link to TreeHugger.com. I’ve never hugged a tree. I tend to stereotype tree-hugger types as a bit loopy. But I checked out the site anyway. I’m glad I did. Despite some areas of disagreement, there’s a lot to like. They seem to strike a nice balance in their approach to sustainability and environmental issues — an approach critically needed to bring sustainability into the mainstream. From their About page:

TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information….

Why is TreeHugger Doing This?

Our environment is currently facing huge obstacles that have the potential to seriously disrupt our future and the future of all our fellow flora and fauna friends. Keeping that in mind, TreeHugger also sympathizes with the fact that most people aren’t willing to compromise their current lifestyle in order to improve our shared environment, so we have created a place where you can discover how to maintain or improve your quality of life while reducing your harmful impact on the earth.

TreeHuggers know that you don’t need to run off to live with the wolves to contribute to the betterment of Mother Nature. (We do, however, prescribe this to anyone with strong urges to pursue cave art and moon howling). TreeHuggers live in the 21st century, make quotidian decisions, consume, have fun and maintain their aesthetic je ne sais quoi.

Knowing that apocalyptic predictions tend to paralyze the masses instead of mobilizing them, we also prefer an enthusiastic, upbeat outlook.

We live green, through education and action.

TreeHugger’s Simran Sethi is appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show today to talk about going green. Should be a great show. I hope I can watch without talking back about global warming

I’m definitely happier today than yesterday. I had a migraine to beat the band — something I haven’t experienced in years. A perfumed product triggered it.

As I lay in bed with the shutters closed, I thought how hard it must be for those who suffer day after day with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. I knew a woman who was so ill from her environment that she had to sleep on glass.

One of my dreams is to own a natural house. Actually, my dream is for the whole world to live in a clean, nontoxic environment. I think we have a lot more to worry about than the “problems” of global warming. Yes, I’m a fence-sitter on the global warming debate. If you’re interested in hearing more than one side of the story, visit http://junkscience.com.

I think it’s truly scary that journalists and columnists are making toxic pronouncements such as this one by Ellen Goodman:

I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

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Uh, oh. I feel another migraine coming on…