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This just in from Discovery.com:

“Earth’s climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat.”

The article goes on to say that it must be an exception. Why? Because the short series (say 30-50 years) of temperatures they analyze points to warmer climates.

How about looking at the last 10,000 years?

The Institue for Liberty has put together some figures detailing the very unGREEN inauguration set for Jan 20, 2009.

• *Celebrities, politicians, and bigwigs using 600 private jets will produce 25,320,000 POUNDS of CO2
  
• *Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 POUNDS of CO2
  
• *In the parade, horses alone will produce more than 400 POUNDS of CO2
  
• *The total carbon footprint for the Inauguration will likely exceed 575 million POUNDS of CO2
  
• *It would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of the new president’s housewarming party
  

Click here for the full 9 page report as PDF