Global Warming

(You probably read it here first; the next day the AP reported it locally.  We are often first to report breaking energy news of interest to our readers--in these pages and via more immediate email alerts for the more relevant items.  More than half the time, the tip comes from an observent reader.  We lament just beginning the category "You Read It Here First", today, since these pages are filled with at least scores of such breaking news reports to our readers.  But, better late than not at all.   -dh)

Yahoo News (From our NGP Reader Rocky Dipple):  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Just five years ago, Charles Monnett was one of the scientists whose observation that several polar bears (NGP Photo) had drowned in the Arctic Ocean helped galvanize the global warming movement.  Now, the wildlife biologist is on administrative leave and facing accusations of scientific misconduct.  The federal agency where he works told him he was on leave pending the results of an investigation into "integrity issues." A watchdog group believes it has to do with the 2006 journal article about the bear, but a source familiar with the investigation said late Thursday that placing Monnett on leave had nothing to with scientific integrity or the article.

As environmental extremism uses the good name of "Earth Day" to promote new initiatives, let's remember to celebrate American innovation, independence, resourcefulness, entrepreneurship and free enterprise by celebrating "Energy Day" this coming October 15: Thank you to Consumer Energy Alliance and the City of Houston for giving us this opportunity to remember our heritage!  -dh

We rose on this Earth Day, mindful of the great bounty God has given mankind and our responsibility to properly husband our resources while we are here.  We also recall that it is possible to do stupid things in the name of "environmental correctness".  One of the illogical things we can do, according to global warming guru Bjorn Lomborg (NGP Photo), is to tax productive, fossil fuels to subsidize as yet uneconomic alternative energies.  He likens that folly to the government of 40 years ago applying a tax to typewriters and carbon paper in order to subsidize a new computer industry.  Computers naturally evolved, Lomborg reminds us, when the Apple, Microsoft and IBM entrepreneurs among us engaged in basic research and invention to create the new computer technology that today is so ubiquitous.  Lomborg counsels us to subsidize research, if we must, not manufacturers producing uneconomic products.

Readers can view one of Lomborg's latest interview here.  Then, enjoy our brief, amateur clip as he appeared before a University of Alaska audience in 2008.  See his new book.

We also appreciate the visit -- also to the University of Alaska - Anchorage campus by veteran, Irish producers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney (NGP Photo) who presented their new film, "Not Evil, Just Wrong", which you may review here.

One notes today, that Barrack Obama's federal minions are pumping Earth Day for all it's worth and wasting taxpayer dollars in the process.   One example is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which is initiating a new, global warming, propaganda program today.  It launches a "50 Stories in 50 States Environmental Campaign", arrogantly adding that, "No geographic area is immune."  See below:                              -dh

As environmental extremism uses the good name of "Earth Day" to promote new initiatives, let's remember to celebrate American innovation, independence, resourcefulness, entrepreneurship and free enterprise by celebrating "Energy Day" this coming October 15: Thank you to Consumer Energy Alliance and the City of Houston for giving us this opportunity to remember our heritage!  -dh

We rose on this Earth Day, mindful of the great bounty God has given mankind and our responsibility to properly husband our resources while we are here.  We also recall that it is possible to do stupid things in the name of "environmental correctness".  One of the illogical things we can do, according to global warming guru Bjorn Lomborg (NGP Photo), is to tax productive, fossil fuels to subsidize as yet uneconomic alternative energies.  He likens that folly to the government of 40 years ago applying a tax to typewriters and carbon paper in order to subsidize a new computer industry.  Computers naturally evolved, Lomborg reminds us, when the Apple, Microsoft and IBM entrepreneurs among us engaged in basic research and invention to create the new computer technology that today is so ubiquitous.  Lomborg counsels us to subsidize research, if we must, not manufacturers producing uneconomic products.

Readers can view one of Lomborg's latest interview here.  Then, enjoy our brief, amateur clip as he appeared before a University of Alaska audience in 2008.  See his new book.

We also appreciate the visit -- also to the University of Alaska - Anchorage campus by veteran, Irish producers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney (NGP Photo) who presented their new film, "Not Evil, Just Wrong", which you may review here.

One notes today, that Barrack Obama's federal minions are pumping Earth Day for all it's worth and wasting taxpayer dollars in the process.   One example is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which is initiating a new, global warming, propaganda program today.  It launches a "50 Stories in 50 States Environmental Campaign", arrogantly adding that, "No geographic area is immune."  See below:                              -dh