Why are We Still Dealing with the UN?

Boortz this morning:

The corrupt United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a summary for action on climate change. This summary says that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” Quite odd, really, since the Earth has actually

McQ over at O&O made a trip to an oil platform, and relates his experiences here.

There’s a lot going on in that post, but I do want to point up something  that relates to a discussion we had the

Here’s a little-used graphic of currently understood domestic oil potential, that the Washington Post ran some months ago:

(Drill the pic for full size)

Now, before you comment on the limitations involved, be aware most of the limits are man

SAO PAULO, Brazil: A monster offshore oil discovery and promising fields near the find could help Brazil join the ranks of the world’s major exporters, but full-scale extraction is unlikely until 2013 and will be very expensive.The “ultra-deep” Tupi field

The Science and Public Policy Institute, has released a report on Al Gore’s movie, that you will want to read.  It goes into great detail, listing of 35 different lies found in that movie, lies which the institute, in its

Last night, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck blamed California’s massive wildfires on the “damn environmentalists” and their “bad environmental policies.” He also claimed that global warming has nothing to do with the situation, stating, “[I]f I hear global warming

World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown. —

This is the headline

Paul Krugman, New York Times, has an column up on anthropogenic global warming.    As usual, Krugman is less than rational.  But heck, it is the Times, the sane need not apply.

In Washington Monthly, Kevin Drumm, takes up

George Soros, d.b.a. Think Progress, has his knickers is a twist because Fox dared to suggest that Al Gore has done little for world peace.  So what has Gore ever done to promote world peace?  TP goes so far

Al Gore, has joined Jimmie Carter and Yasser Arafat as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize:

OSLO, Norway – (AP)-Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

Heh…

LONDON —Fox- A High Court judge in London has turned film critic, highlighting “nine scientific errors” in Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The judge said some of the errors had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration”

John Tierney pose some Azinger article over the weekend entitled… “Diet and Fat: A Case of Mistaken Consensus”

In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes.

Stewart Dimmock, truck driver, Kent UK:

 “I care about the environment as much as the next man, … However, I am determined to prevent my children from being subjected to political spin in the classroom.”

Dimmock filed a lawsuit to

The Washington Times, on Friday:

 “George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire’s backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency,” Investor’s Business

Michelle Malkin notes that Al Gore could be the next Nobel Peace Prize recipiant:

Oh, mega-crikey:

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing