Posts Tagged ‘ Global Warming ’

Obama’s Weekly Address: Progress with the G-20 in Pittsburgh

September 26, 2009
By Chris Prevatt

WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama recounted the progress made this past week in advancing America’s national security and economic prosperity at the United Nations and the G-20. The administration established the U.S. as a leader in the pursuit for clean energy, and agreed to reform the global financial system to...
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The Cost of Fighting Global Warming Less Than You Think

September 25, 2009
By Dan Chmielewski

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Princeton professor and NY Times columnist gets to the bottom of of the Right Wing’s claim that we can’t afford to fight Global Warming. From Krugman’s piece in the NY Times: Some of them still claim that there’s no such thing as global warming, or at least that the evidence...
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Conservative Education Foundation to Train Teachers in the CSU system

August 11, 2009
By Chris Prevatt
Conservative Education Foundation to Train Teachers in the CSU system

The Powell Memorandum, authored in 1971, was a memorandum written by Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. to Eugene B. Sydnor, Jr., Chairman, Education Committee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memo called for corporate America to become more aggressive in molding politics and law in the United States and may have sparked the formation of one...
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Solar: Innovative Way To Save Schools Money

August 6, 2009
By Chris Prevatt
Solar: Innovative Way To Save Schools Money

The OC Register’s Fermin Leal reported yesterday on the Santa Ana Unified School District’s effort to assist in the battle against global warming and rising energy costs. Santa Ana school adding solar power system Saddleback High may soon produce up to 70 percent of the electricity it needs. SANTA ANA – Saddleback High School will soon have...
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NY Times: Industry Group Ignores Its Own Scientists Findings on Climate Change

April 28, 2009
By Dan Chmielewski

If you count on the Register for climate change coverage, go to the news pages where they actually do a nice job.  But go to the Orange Punch blog, and you’ll get anything but unbiased coverage.  Climate change and global warming are not a man made problem which is the mantra over there, even...
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10 Year Old Launches Civic Education Web Site Promoting Passage of New Education Bill

November 26, 2008
By Misha Houser

Sent to us by Mike Matsuda…  10 Year Old Launches Civic Education web site promoting passage of a new education bill, The US and The World Education Act (HR 7063). See www.usandtheworld.org WHAT: Ethan Matsuda and his dad, Michael, have created a website supporting The US and the World Education Act (HR 7063).  The inspiration for...
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Al Gore’s Rocky Mountain High

August 28, 2008
By Dan Chmielewski
Al Gore’s Rocky Mountain High

While I am really looking forward to Senator Obama’s historic address to the Democrats at Mile High Stadium tonight, I frankly can’t wait for former Vice President Al Gore to address the corwd and discuss Global Warming. Why? Because the Register’s Mark Landsbaum (Global-Warming-is-a-Hoax) will be writing about it and working overtime to debunk Gore as...
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