Planet Gore By Harry Graver June 20, 2012 6:30 P.M. Today marked the opening day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, and in a press release and video, Senator James Inhofe (R., Okla.) blasted the conference’s “radical global-warming agenda,” as well as President Obama’s political maneuvering around the topic. “The bottom line is simple: [...]

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Planet Gore By David Rothbard & Craig Rucker June 20, 2012 11:47 A.M. Green guru James Lovelock was right. He warned last week that “the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion.” Now at the U.N. Earth Summit, even the image of Christ has been made a forcible convert to the eco-faith, as the city [...]

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LIZ KLIMAS ‘Totally Weird’: Sustainability Org. Mocks Beck at Conference But Wants to Adopt His Tactics Newsflash: Glenn Beck is “totally weird,” or so one organization of local governments focused on sustainability says. But that criticism only goes so far: consider that the same group mocking beck, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, actually thinks [...]

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Keep an eye on National Riview Online’s “Planet Gore” for more updates from CFACT’s Mission Rio. Planet Gore Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, environmentalists and U.N. bureaucrats are back in Brazil. After a decade of railing about gloubal-warming climate-change “tipping points” — which were always just around the corner, [...]

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ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Wednesday June 20, 2012   U.S. Senator Inhofe to level strong criticism of Rio+20 – Will Ask ‘Where is President Obama?’ ABIDES Event — Wednesday, June 20, 2 PM, Major Groups – Pavilion T   (Rio de Janeiro)  U.S. Senator James Inhofe will deliver an important message to the Rio+20 summit [...]

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The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) insists we embrace “sustainable development” to save the planet. But when CFACT asked ICLEI members at their “World Congress” in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, we got more “umms” and “uhhs” than anything else! Tweet

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PAUL DRIESSEN & DUGGAN FLANAKIN Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” One clue to what he meant was his comment to now-congressional candidate Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher: “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Not necessarily – especially when activists, regulators, politicians [...]

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Mission Rio – Day 5 As the first full day of the 2012 ICLEI “World Congress” kicked off, my goal was to listen and learn. In any war, intel on the enemy’s strategies is crucial to success. So with dozens of workshops filled with panels of the world’s foremost “sustainable living” experts there was no [...]

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Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday June 18, 2012 CONTACT:  Russell Cook  1-602-753-9141  RCookMedia@cox.net  Rio+20: ICLEI Members Admit “Bait and Switch” to Boost Climate Agenda Belo Horizonte, Brazil. To advance public action on global warming, participants attending the ICLEI World Congress admitted today that they are deliberately employing new terminology to misdirect [...]

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‘Green’ agenda is not healthy for children and other living things DAVID ROTHBARD & PAUL DRIESSEN Thousands of politicians, bureaucrats and environmental activists have gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which runs through Friday. This time, 20 years after the original 1992 Rio Earth Summit, delegates are minimizing [...]

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