SAYS AL Gore, leader of the Al Goreans to the peoples of Ohio: “The planet has a fever.

“If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it’s not a problem.’ ”

The Wall Street Journal’s readers hear the words, and respond:

Fevers can be a symptom of either a bacterial or viral issue. A doctor can attempt a solution to a bacterial issue, but not a viral one. A virus has to run its course while the body fights it–and a fever is a sign of the struggle to eliminate the virus. Let’s see a scientific consensus that the Earth’s fever is bacteria-related.

And: 

Overreacting is common among parents. I remember one morning when my first child was still an infant. Imagine my horror when I discovered that her temperature had risen to 99.5 degrees, almost a whole degree in just under 12 hours. Naturally, I immediately sat down and built a computer model, which clearly projected that by age 30, her temperature was going to be a staggering 19,710 degrees!

Says Gore: “I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

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THE Daily Mail’s front-page headline says it all: “RUBBISH TAX WILL BE DUMPED.”

It’s a decent pun on Gordon Brown’s tax on household waste. And the pay-as-you-throw tax will be dumped.

The Mail has the scoop.

Or as the BBC puts it:

Trials of a scheme to tax householders who throw away too much rubbish are to forge ahead, Downing Street has said.

The Mail, of course, didn’t say which rubbish tax Brown would dump, only that he will…

Picture: Poldraw 

RICHARD Littlejohn versue “pet” Polly Tonybee on the BBC.

Is there a third way?

THE religion of global warming in the EU:

“an informal dialogue took place on 5 May in the headquarters of the European Commission, bringing together around twenty high-level representatives of Christianity, Judaism and Islam in Europe…This year, discussions centred around “Climate change: an ethical challenge for all cultures“. President Barroso declared: “Climate change obliges all of us to take urgent action. Each part of civil society must contribute to ensuring a sustainable future of our planet. Thanks to their outreach and role in our societies, religions and communities of belief are well placed to make a valuable contribution in mobilising them for a sustainable future“.

Which religion is the most environmentally friendy?

Clue: It’s not the Cargoists, who are polluting scum.

Let’s have a heated debate…

GLOBAL warming - the truth is out there:

On April 24 the World Wildife Fund (WWF), another body keen to keep the warmist flag flying, published a study warning that Arctic sea ice was melting so fast that it may soon reach a “tipping point” where “irreversible change” takes place.

This was based on last September’s data, showing ice cover having shrunk over six months from 13 million square kilometres to just 3 million.

What the WWF omitted to mention was that by March the ice had recovered to 14 million sq km (see the website Cryosphere Today), and that ice-cover around the Bering Strait and Alaska that month was at its highest level ever recorded

In Snowdon, where there’s no snow, tthe builders are getting snowed on (gerrit?)…

TIM Blair: “Awareness is always the goal when enviro targets aren’t met. Awareness is the participation medal of goals.”

START your engines:

Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.

VRRMMMMM!

EARTH Hour - start your engines: “Appropriately enough I arrived to find my mailbox teeming with entries for the 3rd Annual Iowahawk Earth Week Cruise-In.

TO the Oxbow Public Market in Napa, where  organic Three Twins Ice Cream can be yours for less-than-small sum…

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IN “Snowdon ‘to lose its snowcap by 2020′, says study”, Telegraph readers learnt that “Measurements taken at the University of Wales in Bangor show that snow levels have decreased by about 35 per cent over the past 10 years.”

That was back in December 2004.

Simon Bareham, the senior pollution and climate change adviser for the Countryside Council for Wales, which is also involved in the study, said the changing climate pattern could mean snow will disappear from Snowdon as soon as the 2020s.

We recall how Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson saw picures of Snowdown taken ten years apart and lamented:

“I was shocked when I saw these two photographs. It has been suggested Snowdon may have to be renamed but like other parts of the world it stands as a reminder of what is happening to our planet.” She went on to tell the launch: “We must act now to reduce the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change and respond to the impacts of the changes already underway as a result of previous emissions.”

Now the BBC reports: “Snow hampers Snowdon cafe build.”

Work on the Snowdon summit building is being hampered by snow, says the Snowdonia National Park Authority.

Workers on the project have had to dig snow off the railway track just to get to work every day.

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SAYS Windsor Mann on Styropolitics:

In the last two years, one city after another has rediscovered a common pariah in the form of polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam. More than 100 cities including Portland, Oakland and San Francisco have banned it from restaurants and supermarkets …

Because it is not biodegradable, Styrofoam is a nuisance to dispose of. Each year people throw away 25 million Styrofoam cups, which then make their way into landfills where they linger but do not decay. “Even 500 years from now, the foam coffee cup you used this morning will be sitting in a landfill,” reports the Environmental Protection Agency. Styrofoam is waste that doesn’t waste away.

This fact upsets environmentalists, who, though willing to give fossils and ancient artifacts a pass, abhor foam’s apparent immortality. An oped in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last year proclaimed Styrofoam to be “an environmental evil” that needs to be eradicated.

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HOW Green is London. Shane Greer:

“A few minutes ago we called Westminster council and spoke to a lovely chap called James who advised us that they do not provide commercial recycling facilities because they are currently running at capacity. Oh dear we thought. But ah, can’t we just use the recycling points dotted around Westminster? I mean, we don’t mind travelling a little bit. Apparently not.

You see the recycling points dotted around the place are for public use, not for businesses, and according to James (who wouldn’t provide a list of where they’re located) we’ll be fined if we’re ever caught doing our bit for the environment using them.

Could always try a post box?

THE killer Sun

A LOOK at the top ten climatology bestsellers at amazon.com:

1. Roy Spencer, realist (#116)
2. Bjorn Lomborg, realist (#959)
3. Fred Singer, realist (#1324)
4. Brian Fagan, neutral (#6156), a book about the little ice age
5. James Lovelock, Gaia priest (#8706)
6. Wallace Broeckner, alarmist (#9202)
7. Mark Lynas, alarmist loon (#10308)
8. Patrick Michaels, realist (#12027)
9. Tim Flannery, alarmist loon (#16135)
10. Henrik Svensmark, realist (#16309)
11. Dennis Avery and Fred Singer, realists (#19266)

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MEAT is science: “It sounds like a sci-fi nightmare: giant sheets of grayish meat grown on factory racks for human consumption. But it’s for real. Using pig stem cells, scientists have been growing lab meat for years, and it could be hitting deli counters sooner than you think.”

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AND then a vengeful Gaia did make it rain on the Al Goreans Earth Day.

Reports the Washington Post: “The Earth Day Festival, a free concert on the National Mall, was suspended just before 2:30 p.m. today when the skies cracked open with a rainstorm.”

When it rains you should cut the power, lest someone get electrocuted. Fortunately:

“I’m little, and it’s hard to see over everybody’s umbrella, but it’s fun,” 7-year-old Maya Friedson said as she tried to watch former American Idol finalist Blake Lewis sing a beat-box version of “America the Beautiful.” Maya and her family came from New York City for the festivities.

And there is always stuff to buy:

Perhaps the busiest booth promoted a product called Blade, a device that attaches to the tailpipe of a car or light truck and, its developers said, will reduce the emission of greenhouse gases while increasing fuel efficiency.

No, not a hose to kill the carbon exhalers inside the car. At least we think not. 

Happily:

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Less people equals less pollution,. Right?  E.U. politics at work:

The EU Commission on Monday rejected claims that producing biofuels is a “crime against humanity” that threatens food supplies, and vowed to stick to its goals as part of a climate change package.

“There is no question for now of suspending the target fixed for biofuels,” said Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.

“You can’t change a political objective without risking a debate on all the other objectives,” which could see the EU landmark climate change and energy package disintegrate, an EU official said.

Their comments came amid growing unease over the planting of biofuel crops as food prices rocket and riots against poverty and hunger multiply worldwide.

UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is “a crime against humanity” because of its impact on global food prices.

Food or people?

WRITES Lawrence Solomon: “As I’m writing this column for the Financial Post, I am simultaneously editing a page on Wikipedia. I am confident that just about everything I write for my column will be available for you to read. I am equally confident that you will be able to read just about nothing that I write for the page on Wikipedia.”

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