'Global warming is baloney' signs put the heat on Burger King


Leo Hickman
guardian.co.uk,
Friday 5 June 2009 19.56 BST

A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming "global warming is baloney".

The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC) that owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, has described Burger King as acting "kinda like coc… Continue

Snow falls in western ND, in June
Jun 6 2009 2:49PM
Associated Press

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.

National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday.

Vining says snow in North Dakota in June is uncommon, though it's not unheard of. She says other parts of the state have seen June snow within the… Continue

Climate change causes 315,000 deaths a year-report
Thu, 28 May 2009 22:22:42 UTC
CLIMATE-HUMAN/ (EMBARGOED)
(Embargoed for release at 1000 GMT May 29)

By Megan Rowling

LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.

The study, commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), estimates that climate change… Continue

Obama's green guru calls for white roofs
President Obama's energy adviser has suggested all the world's roofs should be painted white as part of efforts to slow global warming.

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:33PM BST 27 May 2009


Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun's rays.

More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by re… Continue

May 21, 2009.

The Climate-Industrial Complex
Some businesses see nothing but profits in the green movement.

By BJORN LOMBORG
Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets.

The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. Presiden… Continue

Environmental alarms raised over consumer electronics
Charge your iPod, kill a polar bear?

By GREG KELLER

AP Business Writer

PARIS —
Charge your iPod, kill a polar bear?

The choice might not be quite that stark, but an energy watchdog is alarmed about the threat to the environment from the soaring electricity needs of gadgets like MP3 players, mobile phones and flat screen TVs.

In a report Wednesday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates new electronic gadgets will triple th… Continue

Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"?
Anne Minard
for National Geographic News

May 4, 2009
A prolonged lull in solar activity has astrophysicists glued to their telescopes waiting to see what the sun will do next—and how Earth's climate might respond.

The sun is the least active it's been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which lasted from about… Continue

May 2, 2009
Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus

By JOHN M. BRODER
WASHINGTON — The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.”

The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice and complex scientific disputes, according to extensive polling and focus group sessions conducted by ecoAmerica, a nonprofit environmental marketing and messaging firm in Washington.

Instead of grim warnings about global warming, th… Continue

'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

'Still Sun' baffling astronomers

The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century.

There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time.

The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.

The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At… Continue

Energy Secretary Offers Dire Global Warming Prediction
Speaking at the Summit of the Americas in the Carribean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Steven Chu says some islands could disappear if water levels rise as a result of greenhouse-gas induced climate change.
By Major Garrett

FOXNews.com

Sunday, April 19, 2009


PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- Caribbean nations face "very, very scary" rises in sea level and intensifying hurricanes, and Florida, Louisiana and even northern California co… Continue

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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow -- in April
Storm brings rain, strong winds to Las Vegas region

By MAGGIE LILLIS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Fernando Garlarza, Monique Chebat, David Butler and Angie Sabtino sled Wednesday at Mount Charleston, which received 5 inches of snow Tuesday night.
Photo by Duane Prokop.



At Mount Charleston, the view took o… Continue

AP Newsbreak: Obama looks at climate engineering
By SETH BORENSTEIN – 10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the u… Continue

Deep Solar Minimum
04.01.2009

April 1, 2009: The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.

2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: plot. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008.

Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009… Continue

Spokane residents smuggle suds over green brands

AP – Phosphate free dishwasher detergent is on display at a Rosauers Supermarket in Spokane, Wash. on Tuesday, …

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press Writer Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press Writ… Continue

Monday, Mar. 16, 2009
8 Dems oppose quick debate on global warming bill
By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Eight Senate Democrats are opposing speedy action on President Barack Obama's bill to combat global warming, complicating prospects for the legislation and creating problems for their party's leaders.

The eight Democrats disapprove of using the annual budget debate to pass Obama's "cap and trade" bill to fight greenhouse gas emissions, a measure that divides lawmakers, envi… Continue

Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity [still] lowest in 30-years

Tropical cyclone (TC) activity worldwide has completely and utterly collapsed during the past 2 to 3 years with TC energy levels sinking to levels
not seen since the late 1970s. This should not be a surprise to scientists since the natural variability in climate dominates any detectable or perceived
global warming impact when it comes to measuring yearly integrated tropical cyclone activity. With t… Continue

March 11, 2009
Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”

Most believe global warming is happening, but urgency has stalledUSA Climate Change Environment Social Issues Americas Northern America by Lydia Saad

PRINCETON, NJ -- Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reportin… Continue

Scientists meet to dispute global warming theory
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 3/8/2009 4:00:00 AM

NEW YORK CITY - The A-list of manmade climate-change skeptics is meeting in New York City for the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change.


The Conference is definitely international in scope. Opening the conference is Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic and the European Union. When it comes to manmade global warming, Klaus calls that a myth. He is also an outspoken critic of the… Continue

Out With A Shiver: Global Warming Protest Frozen Out by Massive Snowfall
It was snowing irony in Washington on Monday when global warming activists descended on the District like a storm -- but got beaten to the punch by a blast of wintry weather that incapacitated the city.
By Joseph Abrams

FOXNews.com

Monday, March 02, 2009


Global warming activists stormed Washington Monday for what was billed as the nation's largest act of civil disobedience to fight climate change -- only to see the nati… Continue

Global Warming: On Hold?
Michael Reilly, Discovery News

March 2, 2009 -- For those who have endured this winter's frigid temperatures and today's heavy snowstorm in the Northeast, the concept of global warming may seem, well, almost wishful.

But climate is known to be variable -- a cold winter, or a few strung together doesn't mean the planet is cooling. Still, according to a new study, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.

Earth's climate continues to… Continue