Report: UVA official tries to ban discourse after global warming movie shows on campus – Maligns climate skeptics as ‘scientifically illiterate’

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University of Virginia official tries to shut down debate after movie showing 

February 19, 2014 (Charlottesville, VA) – This past Monday, after Phil Valentine’s movie, An Inconsistent Truth, screened on the campus of the University of Virginia, a university official from the environmental sciences department blasted the College Republicans for allowing Valentine on campus and tried to shut down the debate.

In an editorial published in the student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, Thomas Forman II, the president of the UVA Environmental Sciences Organization, maligned all global warming skeptics as “scientifically illiterate” and said allowing “Valentine to speak is misguided.” It’s one of the most blatant attempts to date of censorship by the guardians of the myth of manmade global warming.

Valentine pointed out that one of the foremost experts on the skeptic side is Dr. Fred Singer, an emeritus professor in environmental science at Mr. Forman’s own University of Virginia. “Surely he (Forman) knows this,” Valentine stated. Dr. Singer is prominently featured in Valentine’s documentary. Valentine went on to point out that almost everything Gore laid out in his movie has proven to be untrue.

“The fact that such a high-profile official in the environmental sciences department felt so compelled to write a scathing editorial about me and our movie tells me we’re on the right track,” Valentine said. “Notice he didn’t dispute anything in our film. He simply said the debate is over. The debate is far from over and we intend to continue to spread this film to college campuses across America despite efforts like Mr. Forman’s.”

Read Thomas Forman’s editorial:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/02/forman-not-up-for-debate

Read Phil Valentine’s rebuttal:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/02/valentine-challenge-the-theory

To learn more about An Inconsistent Truth visit http://AnInconsistentTruth.com

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Obama Wants to Waste a Billion on ‘Climate Change’

Obama Wants to Waste a Billion on “Climate Change”

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2014/02/obama-wants-to-waste-billion-on-climate_19.html

From Alan Caruba’s Warning SignsBarack Obama will be remembered for many things during his two terms in office, but high on the list, right after lying to everyone about everything, will be his determination to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on every Green scheme from solar and wind energy to electric cars, and now on “climate change.”He is calling for a billion-dollar climate change fund in his forthcoming budget, due out next month. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the fund “would be spent on researching the projected effects of climate change and helping Americans prepare for them, including with new technology and infrastructure, according to the White House.We don’t need any research and we don’t need any new technology. The National Weather Service has hugely expensive computers that enable it to predict what the weather will be anywhere in the U.S. with some measure of accuracy for up to three or four days. After that, it gets fuzzy. What will the weather be next week? Well, maybe a bit warmer or a bit colder.As for the effects of weather events, we have centuries of knowledge regarding this. We know what happens after a blizzard or a hurricane, a drought or a flood.When a huge storm like Sandy hit the East Coast, we had FEMA that was supposed to come in and help the victims. The federal government also came up with a couple of million for the States most affected, but it is still a problem that local first responders and utilities have to address most directly.Obama was out in California to show his concern for the drought-stricken farmers and the administration is speeding delivery of $100 million of aid to livestock farmers, $15 million for areas hit hardest, and $60 million for California food banks to help the poor. Rep. Kevin McCarthy(R-CA) pointed out that the drought has been “exacerbated by federal and state regulations” including an environmental rule that placed “the well-being of fish…ahead of the well-being” of communities.Like Rep. McCarthy, those on the scene point out that the drought is in part the result of the failure to restore the water flow from California’s water-heavy north to farmers in the central and south. House Bill 3964 does that, but only if the Senate will stop holding it up. Rep. McCarthy is joined by Rep. Devin …