Life in Africa is often short. AIDS kills 2.2 million every year. Lung infections 1.4 million, malaria 1 million more, intestinal diseases 700,000. Diseases that could be prevented with simple vaccines kill another 600,000 annually. War & malnutrition send countless more to early graves. And yet, day after day, Africans are told the biggest threat we face is – global warming. ...

So how have they done it? With emotion! Plain and simple. Human emotion. Hoaxsters play on human emotions, especially guilt. They do it because it works! Human emotion will run roughshod over human rationality every time. ...

There are often defining moments in the death of a movement and I think I may have spotted one when the Australian July issue of Rolling Stone featured a naked Miranda Kerr on its “Green Issue” cover, chained to a tree to advance the cause of koala bears. ...

The global warming scam has been invented to form a united front against “capitalist exploitation of Mother Earth” while the truth about global warming is being ignored. ...

Global average temperatures peaked in 1998 and since have cooled slightly, despite steadily rising CO2 levels. Except in its Western Peninsula, Antarctica is gaining ice, and Antarctic sea ice reached an all-time high in 2007. ...

Why do we need to know about CO2? Because the President-elect, several of his choices for environmental and energy agencies, the Supreme Court and much of the U.S. Congress has no idea what they are talking about and, worse, want to pass legislation and regulations that will further bankrupt the United States of America.