Chilling Effect – News About Global Cooling!

*       UN plans ’shock therapy’ for world leaders on environment

*     A decreasingly popular President Obama is hoping to gain popularity by shifting to (TO????) global warming legislation…

*       … while Sen. Joe Lieberman may be alienating Greens to get moderate Republicans on board for some form of energy/environment legislation…

*       …so Green groups are opening a “war room” to avoid getting thwarted like socialized medicine’s forces …

*       … meanwhile, firms are starting to see how bad global warming legislation could be for profitability

*       … which may explain why opposition to climate change “persists” (in the words of a seemingly confused New York Times headline writer)

*       Windmills (or: Like Birds to the Slaughter)

BlueGrass Pundit has “Leading Global Warming Proponent Admits Earth is Cooling”

We’re not going to run out and rustle up some extra-cold weather gear because we take this information like we take global warming talk — with a grain of salt and with the understanding that the climate changes due to any number of factors (including many we haven’t yet figured out).

But it’s always interesting to see small turning points in the rush to call for a global warming “consensus.”

This is where the environmental movement gets ghoulish, and it’s important not to gloss over. A study in the British journal Lancet ties human population to the world’s climate — leading simple-minded, singularly focused Green activists to believe that reducing human population will be good for the planet.

In this case, the recommendation is to give birth control to people in developing countries. Even assuming the best intentions, it is little more than Eugenics 2.0 — picking on a disadvantaged population group and reducing their future for the benefit of those at the top of the social chain.

AP reports:

“There is now an emerging debate and interest about the links between population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and climate change,” the commentary says.

Whoa, wait a minute. There’s an “emerging debate”? If so, it’s being driven by one small, twisted sliver. There’s the environmentalists who want to set a two-child limit. And the ghastly woman who had an abortion to fight global warming.

Clearly the far-Green view of humanity as an evil plague upon the world has met another key aspect of its social views, and it’s deeply troubling news for the rest of us.

Be sure to check out Paul Chesser’s “Global warming propaganda infiltrates schools” in the Washington Examiner. 

Buy local…especially when taxpayers are paying! 

Gotta love Dana Milbank.   Finding the perfect locally grown, organic produce can be a challenge but not for First Lady Obama, who enlisted her trusty entourage to close down a portion of downtown Washington to make a quick trip to the market:

            “Let’s say you’re preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don’t have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?

    “Here’s how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:

    “The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.

    “Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. “Now it’s time to buy some food,” she told several hundred people who came to watch. “Let’s shop!”

    “Cowbells were rung. Somebody put a lei of marigolds around Obama’s neck. The first lady picked up a straw basket and headed for the “Farm at Sunnyside” tent, where she loaded up with organic Asian pears, cherry tomatoes, multicolored potatoes, free-range eggs and, yes, two bunches of Tuscan kale. She left the produce with an aide, who paid the cashier as Obama made her way back to the limousine.

    “There’s nothing like the simple pleasures of a farm stand to return us to our agrarian roots…”