Solar power plant to cost extra $25 million for tortoise (12/29/09, not in CCTimes)

25 so-called endangered tortoises are costing $25 million to move so that a new solar power plant can be built in California.
We here at CCTimesWatch will take credit for “told you so” when we blogged that enviro-nutjob rules would make building carbonless power plants near impossible. Now this plant apparently will be built by BrightSource Energy [...]

Health care reform big leap forward for America (12/29/09, page C2)

Steve Butler, Retirement Planner/Big Government Supporter
Time and again we’re baffled by how such a successful businessman could be so clueless about politics.
Mr. Butler jumps on the bandwagon regarding Obamacare and how the math adds up to savings for all of us and insurance for those of us uninsured.
What Mr. Butler never bothers to question is [...]

Scientist spends his energy gettings others to save (12/27/09, Page A4)

Dana Hull, San Jose Mercury News
Didn’t even take a paragraph for the poor education Dana received to show through:
” . . . a powerful tool in the race to combat climate change.”
Dana, humans have no control over climate change. The climate has always been changing. Hence the lack of icebergs throughout the northern part of [...]

Oh, the weather outside is frightful (12/27/09, page AA1)

Timberly Ross, AP
Plenty of examples of extreme cold in this story, but not a word about global warming. The CCTimes even published a photo of two women shoveling 3 feet of global warming.
It’s a simple question: How can we have extreme cold across the country when the planet is warming due to man generated CO2? [...]

A day of optimism, history (12/25/09, Front Page)

This is an inappropriate headline for a professional newspaper. Since bias is a way for life at the Contra Costa Democratic Times, it’s appropriate.
Calling the passing of socialist legislation “a day of optimism” is subjective. Newspaper used to be objective. In other words, the headline should have read, “Senate passes health insurance overhaul.” That’s a fact. No [...]

Russians accuse UK “climate scientists” of fraud (12/21/09, not in CCTimes)

Moscow’s Institute of Economic Analysis accused the Hadley Center of Britain’s Meteorological Office of selectively using Russia’s weather station reports in order to ensure the results of their ‘analysis’ fit the global warming hysteria model.
The Russians say that only 25% of their weather stations are being used in order to perpetuate the myth that the planet [...]

Teenage unemployment rate 25%, black teens 50% (12/21/09, not in CCTimes)

If this were the Bush Administration, this is front page. But it’s the halo’d one, Obama, so we’ll just ignore it. Just like we’ll ignore how Obamacare will leave 24 million people uninsured. No need to understand the details, we’ll decide what’s best for your family, not you.

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