Author: David Ridenour

COP-15: A Chance to See What Life Would Be Like…

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Copenhagen, Denmark - COP-15 has provided a glimpse of what life might be like under a global climate change agreement... and it isn't "A Wonderful Life." It's been a real Frank Capra moment, only in reverse. I've already reported that ...
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Document: Copenhagen Accord

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David Ridenour e-mailed me a final copy of the so-called Copenhagen Accord; you can download a PDF of it here if you are interested. E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe to feed. | Follow the National Center for Public Policy ...
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More on COP-15 Walk-Out

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Climate Justice Action vowed Wednesday to take over the COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to convene a "people's assembly." Hundreds of people who'd been denied badges to attend Wednesday's events reportedly met at nearby Oredstad and Sundby metro stations, the ...
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Learning from Medieval Copenhagen

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A model of Copenhagen during medieval times. Note the sandbags around the perimeter. Green activists had planned to flood the area with water to show the devastating consequences of failing to take action on global warming now. Note that the ...
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Agreement Reached in Copenhagen… The U.N. Shouldn’t Be in Charge of Climate Change Policy

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After waiting hours in the cold with intermittent periods of snow on Monday and Tuesday in unsuccessful bids to get into the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, many of those who ...
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Non-Governmental Organizations Kicked Out of Global Warming Conference – Again

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The UNFCC Secretariat decided late tonight to kick out most participants from non-governmental organizations, claiming the action is necessary due to security concerns. After spending most of the day waiting for details on how I could obtain one of the ...
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Election Law-Violating Astroturf Group Misleads About Pebble Mine… Now There’s a Surprise

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Click to enlarge A group calling itself Alaska Wild Salmon Protection, Inc. recently ran full-page advertisements (see above) in Politico against development of the Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska. The Pebble deposit is one of the largest finds in America, ...
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Criticizing This Administration Is Getting Way Too Easy

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Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House has an op-ed in The Washington Post today entitled, "A Leap Forward to Better Care." The last great leap forward left more than 30 million ...
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Climate Alarmist Says “Do As I Say, Not As I Do”

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Concerned that the increasingly shrill warnings by environmentalists on the dangers of global warming are beginning to undermine the credibility of everyone calling for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists are calling for them to... um... cool it. One ...
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The Nobel Committee’s Not-So Unanimous Selection of Obama

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Image by Getty Images viaDaylife The Agence France Presse today reports that three of the Nobel Committee's five committee members had problems with awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama. Nobel Committee Secretary Geir Lundestad, however, insists that the ...
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