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Stewardship Notes
- Copenhagen Update: Clinton Pledges Away Cap-and-Trade Revenues
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 17, 2009)
Forget about a revenue-neutral cap-and-trade bill if Clinton’s pledge takes effect.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a packed news conference at the UN climate summit today that the United States would take the lead in raising $100 billion a year to help developing nations meet...
- Copenhagen Update: Natural Disasters: Acts of God, or Acts of Man?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 17, 2009)
Move over God, man is in charge!
That, anyway, is the implication of a comment UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is, according to the UK Telegraph, scripted to make at the climate summit in Copenhagen today.
In an impassioned speech, Brown is set to say, “Hurricanes, floods, typhoons and droughts...
- Copenhagen Update: Vegan Sandwich
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 16, 2009)
Would you like a vegan sandwich?
Well, to tell you the truth, when the Asian girl with the sweet smile on her face first offered me one from her large tray in the cold outside the Bella Center, where UN climate talks continued this afternoon, I was suspicious. Might it be poisoned? I turned it...
- Copenhagen Update: Population Control Freaks Hitch Their Wagon to Global Warming
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 16, 2009)
"Humans are overpopulating the world,” wrote Diane Francis in Canada’s National Post Tuesday. “A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.”
She’s not alone in that opinion....
- Copenhagen Update: Greenpeace Gets ‘Punked’
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (December 16, 2009)
Greenpeace, the radical environmentalist group, has a long history of invading factories and government buildings and hanging banners on them charging their targets with evil. Yesterday in Copenhagen, it got a taste of its own medicine.
Activists with CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow,...
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