I'm planning on being around in ten years, Lawd willin'. And I'm really looking forward to holding up all these global-warming deniers, like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and all their absurd guests running around their shows screaming that "CRU e-mails prove global warming is a hoax!" for some serious, serious ridicule.
Like Hannity last night on his Fox show, hosting the best author Exxon/Mobil money could buy, Chris Horner, to natter at length about the fake CRU e-mails scandal. At the very end, Hannity comes up with an epithet for global warming:
Hannity: Biggest scientific fraud, I think, in our lifetime.
Yes, that's what we'd call it too -- not global warming, but this fake scandal, as Media Matters explains in thorough detail.
Particularly when it comes to Hannity's and Horner's doubts that the e-mails were "stolen" (Hannity says: "I don't think that's an accurate story," and Horner says, "There is no evidence this was a hacking.") As MM explains:
CRU officials have stated that emails were obtained through "a criminal breach of our security systems." In its initial response to the reported theft, officials at the University of East Anglia stated: "Recently thousands of files and emails illegally obtained from a research server at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have been posted on various sites on the web." In a statement about the controversy, CRU vice chancellor of research Trevor Davies stated: "We are committed to furthering this debate despite being faced with difficult circumstances related to a criminal breach of our security systems and our concern to protect colleagues from the more extreme behaviour of some who have responded in irrational and unpleasant ways to the publication of personal information."
But beyond the fact that this is just another right-wing water-muddying exercise to advance their own propaganda, you really have to wonder how the rest of the media can so eagerly lap up such a non-story. Especially when confronted with the actual evidence of what in fact is occurring in the Real World, i.e., the natural world, to wit:
Climate change speeds up since 1997 Kyoto accord
Since the 1997 Kyoto international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest warnings made back then.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the Arctic's once-frozen summer sea ice. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.
And it's not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the years leading up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen:
• The world's oceans have risen about an inch and a half.
• Droughts and wildfires have turned more severe, from the U.S. West to Australia to the Sahel desert of North Africa.
• Species now in trouble because of changing climate include not just the polar bear, which has become a symbol of global warming, but also fragile butterflies, colorful frogs and entire stands of North American pine forests.
• Temperatures over the past 12 years are 0.4 degree warmer than in the dozen years leading up to 1997.
"The latest science is telling us we are in more trouble than we thought," said Janos Pasztor, climate adviser to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Here's why: Since an agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution was signed in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, the level of carbon dioxide in the air has increased 6.5 percent.
From 1997 to 2008:
• World carbon-dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased 31 percent.
• U.S. emissions of this greenhouse gas rose 3.7 percent.
• Emissions from China, now the biggest producer of this pollution, have more than doubled in 12 years.
We're also starting to see things we've never seen before, like massive killer algal blooms. We don't know that climate change is causing it, but we do know we've never seen this stuff before.
In ten years we're going to be in a world of hurt and these well-paid morons are going to have some explaining to do.
Of course, we know this crowd: They'll somehow try to claim that they were really right.
Right. Morons.
Hey, when is this prick going to be waterboarded? "For the troops."
fraud. If we need water to survive, those fools claiming water can be dangerous must be full of sh*t... according to Mr. Hannity.
Hannity believes that the singular Barack Obama can destroy America but that 7 BILLION PEOPLE can't effect the planet.
What a douche!
"But beyond the fact that this is just another right-wing water-muddying exercise to advance their own propaganda, you really have to wonder how the rest of the media can so eagerly lap up such a non-story."
I do not have to wonder at all. I think I'll go back to the Tiger Woods story.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
At last...someone with PRIORITIES.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/immigration...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
...none of this matters as long as you only understand science as much as you understand the bible...
It really doesn't matter to me if man is responsible for climate change; the potential threat is greater than the tangible costs.
Just turn on the air conditioning.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
The folks at Fox are experts when it comes to frauds. The are one every day.
I think we all knew when the news broke about the emails that the right was going to jump on it like flies on fecal matter. They live to tear down any and all things liberal or intelligent.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
InSannity hasn't seen the light of day in quite a while, what with his head being where it is.
the magnitude of Hannity's mental retardation.
Hint: It's in an area filled with methane gases.
genetic, contracted, or degenerative.
Discuss.
be all three?
Willful.
I would wager that Sen Inhofe's little soldier stood and saluted when he heard about the hacked emails. And it was probably the first time in a very long time.
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This is the best Hannity's got?
No wonder he's irrelevant. He may be forced to waterboard himself, simply to gain ratings.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
count as waterboarding?
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Many people in America live and breath off what (ins)Hannity says as being truthful. Sad, NO?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
More embarrassing than sad.
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Then what about those that live and breath what Glen Beck says?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Achtung, achtung!
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Do brain dead people "live and breath"?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
It's only embarrassing if you believe (ins)Hannity.
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Sad and pathetic , I am ashamed to be an American these days .
Don't be ashamed to be American...
... Because being American comes with great responsibilities and Principles.
I'm ashamed that the people in the media platform ulterior motives and principles that work to undermine what America has long stood for.
I'm ashamed at a media that teaches these bastardized principles to Americans, as if it is normal, natural.
I'm ashamed that our media is all but silent on WAR CRIMES, LIES, DECEIT, PROFITEERING, CORPORATISM RUN A MUCK. But then, they'd be ashamed to admit that they're players in this game, too.
I'm ashamed that America is turning Fascist in my lifetime. And that shame enrages me. NOT IN MY NAME! My Country has Principles to defend that I am NOT ashamed of.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
I think I am making progress , this ass hole doesn't even phase me anymore . Hannity is just a fountain of bull shit , period .
Yup. Hannity prides himself on being an attack dog. But he just sounds vicious. He is all bark, no teeth.
Potholer54 on YouTube is a reliable source for science education and science reporting and commentary. Check out his video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nnVQ2fROOg
We might want to slide through a law now, when the rich and powerful won't admit to global warming, that they can't abandon their beach mansions when the oceans rise, but must spend 3 months of every year inside those homes, (or the volume formerly contained by those homes.)
... us scientists never rest until we gain the validation of an attorney and a functional illiterate moron who dropped college after a couple of weeks, both with ZERO education and expertise in science.
Tyler, are you a scientist?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
... although my advisor swore I was doing solid state physics.
The reason I asked is that my husband is a scientist and your comment reminded me of something he would say about the likes of Hannity.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
... you have very good taste! You better take good care of the guy, at least a good martini tonight is in order!
Scientists always manage to marry well beyond what they deserve. I guess that's the upside of draining your will to live for 5 - 7 years living in a cat-infested fire-trap.
play one on TV once.
And stayed at a Holiday Inn.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn once and I did get smarter. I got smart enough to never stay at one of those places again.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
But you should have asked "Is you a scientists."
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I tries to talk good most of the time. There are timers when I forget to thought.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
John Ensign's vacation in the Hampton catching up to him.
http://barbinmd.dailykos.com/
all over Texas today...I'm waiting for the inevitable trolling dickhead to claim that this disproves global warming. Might want to learn the science of weather vs climate.
I think some of its regents are doing exactly that right now.
while Cali. goes up what, 32%. Progressive my shaky fault line.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
...meeting for the U.C. mucky-mucks. Protesters were outside, and one regent walks in carrying a gift box with a white ribbon, easily identifiable as being from Tiffany's.
So while they can afford to fling expensive gifts around, they can't keep costs in line.
Betcha the pay raise is next.
the UC regents had just approved a salary increase for the board, right after passing mandatory pay cuts and furloughs for all campuses with a 30% tuition hike thrown in for good measure.
The best part were the interviews in which UC's regents were "genuinely" surprised about the negative reactions.
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"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
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unless you count me and the City Council.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Because we got the equivalent of a frozen tropical rain here in Houston, and the places it would snow heavier got little moisture.
I think that was about the same year we got a little snow in south florida.
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No worries. It's only one of the signs of the coming Rapture.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Comeone Jebus...get your followers out of here, so sanity can return.
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Let's pray NOT!!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
http://www.blondie.net/tourschedule.php
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Green jobs plan will jump start global warming
fraud, others ignore the greatest scientifc discovery prooving life begins at conception....from deep in the heart of Texas. Too bad Dr. Durden, PhD. has to miss it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091203/ap_on_fe_...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
just some chick story?
Rednecks always get X-mass and Easter confused...
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Hardly. Try 'Creationism.'
if your spewing more then your share of CO2 I will sell you cheap carbon credits. I got a mulberry, two walnut trees, a magnolia, a box elder, and the big honeysuckle bush is half price.
U.S. launches Operation 'Cobra's Anger' in Afghanistan
we now return to to our . . .
So the proper acronym is Operation C-Y-A.
How bout that instead?
"Operation Bottomless Money Pit"
"Operation Cobra's Anger"
Where do they come up with these names? Sometimes I think the military brass who comes up with this shit are a bunch of 10 year olds thinking they are playing with G I Joe's. Only these G I Joe's aren't plastic, they bleed and they die.
I kinda find Hannity funny. He puts so much authority in his voice and tries to sound like he has done great research into everything he talks about. He reminds me of that guy on Fox and Friends that isn't the blond guy, in that he is so screwed up on so many subjects that his fellow fox-holes have to correct him very often.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
He really should know from frauds. There's one staring back at him every time he preens in a mirror.
me-oww!
I would like to ask Mr. Hannity, if this was the biggest scientific fraud of our lifetime, what were some of the lesser scientific frauds of our lifetime.
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..natural selection or evolution.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
he would draw a blank.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I want some fool to come along now and tell me how this is simply cyclical. Preferably someone so clueless in meteorological science that they would be unable to tell me even how the water cycle works.
..global warming is all a liberal conspiracy. Its a good thing we have global warming deniers like hannity out there keeping people in the dark; we just don't need none of that science thing now do we?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
.. to amount to a crime that could dwarf even those of the Nazis.
I do not say this lightly.
and Hanninty is trying to be one, also.
So, glaciers and ice-caps are melting all over the globe, seawater levels are rising, atmospheric CO2 levels are rising, and the oceans are getting warmer, and Hannity insists that it really isn't so? What a shite-for-brains Corporatist shill!
I suppose that the USA Department of Defense has also, somehow, been snookered into believing that "the sky is falling"? They are embarked in a program to place the US Navy into the opening Arctic Ocean with a surface fleet.
And in other news, the USA, Canada, Russia, Finland, Norway, Britain, Iceland, and Denmark (Greenland) are all vying for territorial claim in the United Nations over the natural resources being exposed by the melting polar icecap. The goal is dominion over the suspected vast mineral wealth there, including Oil & Natural Gas.
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt anymore.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
A species that does not adapt to live in a changing environment eventually goes extinct. The faster the environment changes, the quicker the extinction.
Homo sapiens has occupied the top of the evolutionary ladder for about 160,000 years. That's a pretty good run. The planets tired, it needs a break anyway. Who knows, in a few of thousand more years or so, it will be like we never existed.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
Let's not forget that Hannity is essentially uneducated. No college -barely got out of high school.
And without that mousey Alan Colmes sitting next to him he looks even more like a punk.
He was Limbaugh's butt boy. That's how he got where he is.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
More like a gut to butt boy. Limbaugh could never get it in.
send this post to a global warming-denier friend of mine, but these types of comments changed my mind. "Butt boy?" "Limbaugh could never get it in?" Can't you guys do better than that?
Nope. Took a lot of thinking to come up with that one.
I sure as hell can do better than that but it wouldn't be lady like and it would get my sweet ass deleted.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
you called it skinny. Isn't Skinny and Sweet what they served the boss in Nine to Five?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
It looks just the same, except for the little skull and crossbones on the label.
One of my favorite films.
I don't know about the boss in Nine to Five, but my ass along with the rest of me couldn't gain a pound if I ate three cows and a ton of potatoes. Just not in my genes to gain weight.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
;)
My sister got all the weight gain genes and at times in her life has been morbidly obese.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"Morbidly obese" is just a number, right?
Yes I guess so, but in her case it's a great big number.
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Hannity's mum was an overgrown anal cyst, that Limbaugh removed to show as proof of his inability to join the good fight in Vietnam. And his father was one of Cheney's "other priorities" which he used around the same time. One day, they were left in the lab unattended by a careless tech, and the rest as they say... it is history.
Hannity really is a freak of nature, in a very literal way. Some Nobel price in the future will surely descend on the team which manages to explain his life cycle.
There, better?
he were a Bush he could have graduated from Yale.
He applied for the University of Texas School of Law but was turned down. He did pull strings and managed to get into the Texas National Guard. Supposedly cut class a a lot.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
According to wiki, Hannity received an honorary degree from one college. Guess which one.
"In 2005, Jerry Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University, awarded Hannity an honorary degree."
His early life in radio seems to confirm he has always been an awesome asshole.
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Liberty University, the DeVry for Christofascists. Though I always thought "Rapture University" would have made a better name.
His early life in radio seems to confirm he has always been an awesome asshole.
Research how he got that gig.
As I said...I remember when Hannity was just a pimple on the ass of Limbaugh with aspirations of becoming a full blown hemorrhoid.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I kid you not, LOL.
So are the students there known as the Flamers?
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... or maybe they are the Fighting Flamers, or the Flaming Fighters?
Kinda funny that a religious school would call themselves the Flames. I mean with hell and flames and all it just seems strange.
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Maybe their flamers.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
is the biggest FRAUD. What a putz.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm...
there's no global warming (or climate change, if you wish). It's NORMAL that we in South Florida had two straight WEEKS of 90 degrees plus in October and yesterday's high temp in Fort Lauderdale set a record at 89 degrees!
Go back to school, you uneducated boor!
4 years running we have had 60 degree days in January in the Northeast.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I've been piping hot for at least the past 8 years. Though I don't know how much that has to do with global warming.
here in Houston today.....earliest snowfall on record. It's all about the extremes going on now....not "warming" per se, hence "climate change", although the planet as a whole is getting warmer.
Chances are it'll be in the 90s here come Xmas.
You live in Houston? That's the belly of the beast. You have my sympathies
But it's a pit now. Although they may get their first openly lesbian mayor soon. I'm trying to get out again, but chances are, I never will.
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I had found out.
Why is nobody in media pointing out that the same corporations that spread these lies in this country are the same corporations that are preparing for climate change everywhere else in the world? BP and Royal Dutch Shell are spending billions world wide to prepare. Yet they collude with their silence when paid shills are parading in front of American citizenry.
A week ago Sunday there was an article in the paper about how the beaches in Hawaii are disappearing. Wonder what is up with that? One of my pet peeves is how the right has changed the discussion from Global Climate Change to Global Warming. It isn't just warming, everything is fucked up and ass backwards.
LCforevah - you know who else is very concerned about Global Climate Change? The Pentagon. That is not hyperbole, it is true. I subscribe to "Proceedings" from the U.S. Naval Institute and there are periodic articles concerning this subject published.
NavSpecWarVet - do you think you could make those papers available to this website and even to R Maddow? Somebody has got to make this visible.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0222-...
the actual Pentagon report.
Baked Cobra?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
— LCforevah - I'll look for that article. It was in our local newspaper out here in Escondido, California but I think it was form the wire service. I'll let you know. Our paper is called the North County Times.
Beck is about to tie his dick in a knot tonight trying to connect the Jobs Summit to ACORN and well, socialist in general.
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There's an image.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
about to find out that he is lacking more than the rest of us to do that.
;)
Yes it is because I didn't call it his wing-ding or his pee-wee or his pecker. I do have some class, ya know.
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Pretty sure he's going to sprinkle in a little bit about Che Guevera and some Swedish art students.
LCforevah: I found it. I was wrong. It was on a Saturday. Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press | Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2009 8:05 pm.
NavSpec and BigDaddy
Meanwhile, we're having the longest, heaviest, earliest snowfall here in Houston's history.
There is actually SNOW ON THE GROUND right now. I've lived here almost my entire life (since age 3 in 1970), and I have never seen this much snow in Houston.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Mugsy - saw that this morning on the "Today Show." Also saw that it snowed in Shreveport, LA. Thought that was pretty weird. Like I said - it is Global Climate Change.
This country long ago abandoned the principles and responsibilities you are talking about , unlike some I cannot simply put blinders on and plug my nose while I sing "America the beautiful" .
I just don't care for the idea of saying "I told you so" while treading water.
And besides Sean, I'd have thought the biggest scientific fraud would have been the Bush administration covering up actual data PROVING global warming. Remember that you schmuck!
There is no hope what so ever for Hannity. He is completely and totally lost in some la la land of false realities and fake news stories ... he lives in a fake world with fake friends and meaningless conversations. He's a total lost cause for the human race.
most right wing talking heads? I fear that Sean, Bill, Glen, etc fully well know that they are lying strictly for the paycheck. This is also why Tweety, who started off in a different era and may have had some integrity at the start of his career, now looks like he doesn't know what he's talking about most of the time.
Tim Russert, RIP, also became completely softball at the end.
Reuters (YouTube): Climate shakes Greenland economy
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
I think the Exxon Valdez crashed into shammity's head.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
They are making long term plans to move their societies to higher ground, not because a large number of scientists are involved in a hoax, but because they witness ever threatening sea encroachments. Hannity needs to speak face to face with these people and tell them climate change is a hoax.
Sean Hannity To Daily Show's Jon Stewart "I Apologize"
Study the symptoms not the virus...
The unfortunate fact is that the planet IS warming. That's indisputable. All you need do is look at the glaciers. Temperatures HAVE been trending upwards. Of course the wing nuts are going to take the recent email hackings as irrefutable evidence that it's all a big left wing conspiracy intended to kill capitalism and steel freedom (whatever that means). In fact, there was a letter to the editor today that said exactly that. What's going to ultimately kill mankind is stupidity, and there's more than enough of it to go around. Please save this country from the stupid people, most of whom vote Republican.
Sure, Hannity is a full blown shill. Sure, Beck is a fear mongerer. Sure, fossil fuels ruin air and water quality, and we should do everything we can to get investment into renewable and cleaner forms of energy. But, a much as it pains me, after due diligence...
Watch this - Co2 is not the cause of global warming. It is the opposite. Stop believing the Gore talking points. Study a bit. The left needs to focus on the environment and stop this global warming fear. We can't do anything about it.
WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqqWJugXzs
Seriously. Stop taking the Kool-Aid. It just ain't so.
Here is a very sober, short, explanation. We are at worst, responsible for 4% of all co2, and co2 isn't even the problem.
The oceans and the sun are.
WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYLmLW4k4aI
Just the facts. Stick to the real threat - What fossil fuels and their extraction do to our air and water. Leave the global warming scares to the freaks.
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/climate-skeptic-g...
try this one mr hannity..
does fox news have $$ ties to oil companies?
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