Is global warming a media driven myth?

Hysteria... says James Inhofe on Fox News Saturday this morning.

CNN made 8 accusations against Inofe, all in error, he says. Talk about hurricanes, polar bear population being affected, simply not true...

Inofe makes some comment about Kyoto, too bad Fox doesn't provide the full transcript.

US did sign on to Kyoto Treaty? I didn't think we did, or if former President Clinton did, President George Bush rejected and reversed that.

Site don't believe...

Inhofe: Global-warming scientists, media "doomsayers" and tools of "hysterical Left"
Posted by Bob Geiger at 12:36 PM on September 27, 2006...

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/42224/

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=97

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74

Kyoto Treaty. Did US sign it? OK apparently, somebody "signed" the Treaty, maybe the United Nations US delegate? but Clinton didn't send it to the Senate to ratify it? Neither has President Bush...

Ratification. For the United States to ratify the Protocol, the treaty must be
submitted to the U.S. Senate for advice and consent, with a two-thirds majority
vote in the Senate required for approval. If the United States does not ratify
the treaty, it is not subject to its terms and obligations. President Clinton
has voiced strong support for the Kyoto Protocol, though criticizing it for not
including commitments for developing countries. The United States signed it on
November 12, 1998. The U.S. signature was criticized by several Members of
Congress who oppose the treaty on a number of grounds, including questions about
the scientific justification for it and about the likely economic impacts that
might occur if the United States were to attempt to meet its emission reduction
commitments in the treaty. In recognition of the opposition expressed in the
Senate by S.Res. 98,
which passed 95-0, to a Protocol that does not include requirements for
emissions limitations by developing countries, the President has indicated that
he will not submit the treaty to the Senate for advice and consent until
meaningful developing country participation has been achieved...

http://ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/Climate/clim-3.cfm

Not quite the whole story?

The United States signed onto the Treaty under the Clinton administration, but the Bush Administration has refused to submit it to the Senate for ratification.

http://www.globalsolutions.org/programs/glob_engage/Treaties/kyoto.html
kyoto treaty united states

It's a Protocol, not a Treaty? It's an amendment to an already signed Treaty?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

Kyoto Accords Take Effect
February 16, 2005 · An agreement to fight global warming goes into effect Wednesday in much of the world. The Kyoto treaty was ratified by 140 nations, with some notable exceptions -- the United States and Australia did not sign the treaty. Signatories are legally committed to meeting emissions targets by 2012...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4501636

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http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/search?q=global+warming

Election hijinks

Worse, because Foley's name cannot be reomoved from absentee paper ballots in time for the election, whomever is named as Foley's replacement for the unexpired term will receive any votes Foley receives in the Florida election!

OK everybody take a deep breath... not too deep as the stink is spreading nationwide.

http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/voting_info.shtml

Foley Scumbag

Not much more could be said about Tom Foley - what a scumbag. His entire congressional record should be reviewed to determine how long this scumbag has been "protected" and operating in secrecy. His name should go down in the history books as is. His only saving grace would be if he was on some kind of pharmaceutical drug that caused these kind of side effects.

Sept. 30, 2006 Foley Resigns Fox News

ABC Report
Sep 29, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six-term Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida will resign from the U.S. Congress following allegations he sent inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old male congressional intern, Republican sources said on Friday.
Foley, who represents a district in southern Florida, has served as chairman of a House caucus on missing and exploited children and was a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax and trade policy.

County commissioners nay rezoning, yet maintain unequal tax exemptions

Two of three Fayette County, PA commissioners voted against a contentious rezoning request by land developers, yet maintain the tax exemptions known as Keystone Opportunity Zones on the property. The KOZ designations were applied to thousands of acres in the county back in 1999, and subsequently in expansion zones, known as KOEZ. A previous board of commissioners which included current sitting-commissioner Vincent Vicites, authorized the KOZ for so-called blighted properties in late 1998. When a rezoning request was made for the Springhill Township acreage, opposition arose because the land was already designated KOZ and would include plans for housing development. Many contended forgiving local property taxes (and other taxes) for residential property particularly would be unfair to other local taxpayers. At that time, two commissioners voted for the rezoning with Commissioner Vicites voting nay.

Faced with a new group of developers with an interest in expanding the original proposal for housing development, two current commissioners made the decision to deny the rezoning request.

When will the two commissioners revisit the KOZ designation for the property and remove the KOZ from the residential portions if they believe as others do it is unfair treatment?

Why don't commissioners look into original plans to develop this property?

2001 Annual Report Executive Summary

...Finally, Springhill Township contracted for a land use study of the KOZ-designated property located in their township. All of this economic development activity...

http://www.ezec.gov/01_Exec_Summaries/fayettepa.html

Related material

Zero Taxes (for some)

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2002/10/14/story4.html


Residential rezoning application rejected

By Chris ForemanTRIBUNE-REVIEWFriday, September 29, 2006

Fayette County commissioners voted 2-1 Thursday to deny Crystal Springs Investors' application to rezone 229 acres within a Keystone Opportunity Zone to expand a residential development plan.

Commissioners Vince Vicites and Angela Zimmerlink opposed the application, which requested the rezoning of four Springhill Township parcels from agricultural-rural to medium-density residential. Commissioner Joe Hardy, the founder of the 84 Lumber building supply company, voted to approve the rezoning.

Crystal Springs, of Monroeville, has been negotiating with Fay-Penn Economic Development Council to purchase the properties. The existing zoning allows for single-family housing and duplexes, but Crystal Springs' representatives were hoping to include multifamily housing in their project.

A KOZ is a 10-year designation in which a property buyer receives forgiveness on state and local taxes for an economic development project.

In this case, those purchasing the homes also would receive an abatement on state and local income taxes until the KOZ expires on Dec. 31, 2013.

Vicites reiterated yesterday that he is against using a KOZ for residential development. Zimmerlink has said she believes it would create unfair competition between developers and residential homeowners. ...

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/fayette/s_472760.html

Fayette commissioners adopt zoning ordinance
By Amy Zalar, Herald-Standard
09/29/2006

Vicites and Zimmerlink voted to deny a rezoning application by Crystal Springs Investors to rezone 229 acres from agricultural to residential in Springhill Township. Hardy voted against the denial. In voting against the rezoning, Vicites said he has been consistently against residential development in a Keystone Opportunity Zone.Crystal Springs wanted the zoning change to allow for construction of multi-family homes at the site, where single-family homes are already allowed because the former board of commissioners changed the zoning from industrial to agricultural. Vicites voted against the prior zoning change as well, while former Commissioners Sean M. Cavanagh and Ron Nehls voted for it. Crystal Springs plans to construct 300 single-family homes that will cost upwards of $300,000 in a gated community. The property owners will not have to pay property or wage and income taxes until the expiration of the KOZ in 2013.

http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17260468&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

Glint in the "Party" Eye

MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan
By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- The youth-heavy online hangout MySpace.com is launching a voter-registration drive to engage its members in civics. In partnership with the nonpartisan group Declare Yourself, MySpace is running ads on its highly trafficked Web site and giving members tools such as a "I Registered To Vote On MySpace" badge to place on their personal profile pages...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MYSPACE_VOTER_REGISTRATION?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT