Celebration in Utah | GlobalWarming.org

A politically active friend in the Beehive State reports a gleeful mood among colleagues over the apparent pending departure of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. — a Schwarzeneggar/Crist clone on global warming — because of his selection by President Obama as ambassador to China. His message:

A great day for Utah - how can we ever thank the people of China?!

Intrade Exchange News

This market assumes that Gore and Armstrong made a gentlemen's wager (with no money), with a starting date of 1st Jan 2008. Whose prediction would be more accurate after three years?

This contract will settle (expire) at 100 ($10.00) if Scott Armstrong is more accurate

This contract will settle (expire) at 0 ($0.00) if Al Gore is more accurate

Australia: Greenpeace heads into red as costs bite

Judging from accounts for calendar-year 2008, the eco-political concern will need to pay attention to its soaring wages, salaries and superannuation bill, which jumped 31 per cent and swallowed up $7.6 million.

The personnel costs take a decent chunk of money raised from Greenpeace's supporter base, which, over time, has been falling alarmingly. Six years ago the outfit had nearly 130,000 supporters but the latest accounts said the base was "approximately" 100,000.
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...The donations were swallowed up by what Greenpeace described as "fund-raising expenditure" of $7.2 million, "campaigning expenditure" of $11.5 million and "organisational support" at $1.9 million.
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Travel looked to have soaked up a pretty penny, with Greenpeace personnel visiting Tokyo, Niue, Pohnpei, South Korea, Poland and Papua New Guinea, while Greenpeace vessel MV Esperanza toured seven east-coast Australian cities and treated more than 5000 visitors to its take on climate change.

Ethanol rebellion building in Congress

House ag chair says he'll 'bring this climate bill down' over indirect land use

American Thinker Blog: Climate Change legislation won't reduce emissions

This is not about protecting the planet but about power and money - big surprise, huh? Even the Democrats aren't stupid enough to buy into the idea that we can cut emissions to deal with climate change and not destroy the economy. Even those who are the biggest believers in global warming can't escape reality.

I'm with the environmentalists on this one - not for their reasons but for the simple fact that if Democrats are not going to deal with a problem they claim is the most serious challenge facing planet earth, why bother at all? It appears that this is going to be just one more corporate welfare project that will earn Democratic politicians gobs of money in donations while making energy more expensive for the average American.

[Indian alarmist] Pawan Chamling: School dropout to fourth-term chief minister

Pawan Kumar Chamling, who dropped out of school after Class 5, was Saturday set to become the state's longest-serving chief minister as his Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) swept the assembly polls. This would be the fourth term in power for the man whose aim is to merge the people of his state with mainstream India.
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Declaring Sikkim a totally organic state and an eco-tourism destination as well as the constitution of a committee to fight global warming are some of the feathers in Chamling's cap.

Uganda People News: Journalists to win Climatic Change [Fraud] fellowships

The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has called upon journalists in developing countries who report on climate change to apply for the 2009 Fellowship Programme.

This programme comes during a critical year of negotiations that ends in December with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen where a new global deal could be struck.

According to a press statement, forty journalists will be awarded fellowships which will give them skills training and access to world class experts to enhance their knowledge. The deadline for submission of application is 5th June 2009.

The threat of a cap-and-trade swindle

Efforts to contain greenhouse gas emissions seem prone to this sort of flim-flam. The Democrats' evident determination to use global warming to mask a transfer of wealth from one part of the country to another mirrors the ill-starred Green Shift proposed by former Liberal leader Stephane Dion, which began as a means of fighting emissions and ended up as an anti-poverty pro-gram financed by Alberta for the benefit of more Liberal-friendly parts of the country.

It's unfortunate but perhaps not surprising. So much of the climate debate is wrapped up in emotion, posturing and evangelical zeal, it makes a natural habitat for politicians on the make. [via Climate Change Fraud]

Science not settled?: Obscure sun data now in demand

Readings begun 15 years ago by Lowell astronomers are helping to explain climate change.

Winter [fossil-fueled] travel splurge | Herald Sun

RUDD Government ministers spent almost $1.8 million travelling the world last winter, but did not release the details until Tuesday night as the Budget was being delivered.
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Topping the spending list was [Environmental Minister Peter] Garrett, whose 11-day trip to Chile and the US cost taxpayers $226,010.

Starin: The politics of science : Columnists : Boulder Daily Camera

Just as an imminent ice age was assured in the 1970s, global warming may one day be regarded as more junk science. This would be a shame if it resulted in a further delay of our necessary transition off fossil fuels to more clean and efficient means of energy conversion. One thing I teach my children is to think for themselves and not to assume something is correct, just because of popular opinion or perceived consensus. The process of impartiality as well as a willingness to consider dissent must be adhered to in the scientific method or we might lose something much greater in the end: objectivity and independent thought.

YouTube - The Occult Crime Squad Presents the Global Warming Hoax

Global warming is a scam & hoax
Watch these politicians lie through their teeth for millions of pounds of bonuses.

Note to politicians: Whatever you do, you better keep the power on

KARACHI: A group of people traumatized by persistent power outage went on burning tyres, blocking roads, pelting stones and voicing slogans in protest against the continued power outage in the city, especially in their area at Aisha Manzil, Feederab B Area here.

The demonstrators said that they were getting electricity supply only for few hours, as power breakdown and load shedding continues most of the time, which has made their life unbearable, especially in this hot and humid weather in the city.

Police baton charged and fired teargas shells for dispersing the demonstrators and restoring traffic on the Super Highway.

Capitalism Begets Environmentalism? | KXNet.com North Dakota News

For instance, I don’t buy into the global warming hype at all. I think it’s a bunch of hooey invented by alarmists with too much time on their hand and co-opted by politicians who use it as an excuse to consolidate their influence and wealth. That being said, if you tell me that I can save $40/month on my gas/electricity bills with a new thermostat or something I’m probably going to listen.

Of course, I’m less likely to listen if that message gets lost in a sea of politicians telling me they’re going to regulate my thermostat, what I drive, what I eat and generally how I live my life for me

Climate hysteria nothing to worry about (OneNewsNow.com)

A "man-made climate change" skeptic says as public support for climate change wanes, the predictions of destruction will become more outlandish.

Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com says every generation has had their doomsday soothsayers, and this generation is no different. Morano is referring to the many predictions of utter destruction being lauded by those who believe in the theory of "man-made global warming."

Clearly, it's time to spend $45 trillion trying to make the world a little bit colder

Indiana's planting progress is about 17 days behind the five-year average. Delayed U.S. plantings -- due to cool, rainy weather -- inspired traders to buy more corn and beans on fears low yields may cause a squeeze on bean supplies. Late-planted crops also may be more vulnerable to diseases or early frost damage.

More from Indiana:

Our normal last date for a frost across our area is anywhere from May 1st through May 6th. So, if we do end up getting a frost over the next couple of days, it will be a good 10-15 days later than normal. My thoughts are that there will only be spotty frost, mainly in the countryside, when you get up on Sunday morning, May 17th. That's because I still expect a light breeze, which will help keep the frost from forming. The coldest morning should be Monday, May 18th, and I expect a widespread frost to occur, especially outside of town. Although I wouldn't be surprised to hear of some frost right in South Bend. The winds should be calm and the skies clear, which are ideal conditions for frost to form. The thing that might save us are some clouds...so let's hope for a few clouds Sunday night. Our record low temperature on both Sunday and Monday is 30 degrees. If conditions end up just right, we might actually get close to that on Monday.

Waxman-Markey: What’s new, what’s old? | GlobalWarming.org

The bill instructs gas and electric utilities to use the free allocations to “protect consumers” from ”price increases.” This is odd. The whole point of cap-and-trade is to raise energy prices. As candidate Obama said in a moment of candor, electricity prices will “necessarily skyrocket.” That’s how cap-and-trade discourages consumption, which reduces emissions. It’s also how cap-and-trade rigs the market in favor of non-carbon energy, which also supposedly reduces emissions.

The Washington Independent » Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal

The message is clear: If climate change reforms are ever to clear Congress, they can’t confront industry too severely — even if those industries are responsible for same carbon emissions creating the problem.

Canada: Cool weather slows seeding

Cold spring creates 'a huge issue' on farms: commodities expert
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Tom Abrametz woke up to nearly a foot of snow covering his fields Friday morning, a sight that told him seeding would not be on the agenda this weekend.
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Weber has been angered during the last 10 days over media reports that Saskatchewan is only a few days behind the normal seeding pace, or equal to the five-year average.

"The real story is that we've got seeds sitting in the ground for 10 days. They aren't out of the ground yet."

Seeds can freeze, rot or just grow too slowly when they don't germinate in time.

"It was minus seven Wednesday night, Thursday night it was minus three and Tuesday it's forecast for minus seven again. The ground's not warming up and it's the 15th of May," Weber said on Friday.

He received a BlackBerry message from a farmer near North Battleford Friday morning, saying the ground was frozen one and a half to two inches down.
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Abrametz said someone in his area testing the soil on Tuesday broke his thermometer, as it hit frozen earth a foot into the ground.

Fake scare used to push fake scare | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Associate Professor Abigail Smith wants us to remember a fake scare based on dodgy evidence that caused great harm, because she thinks it should make us now freak over the latest fake scare based on dodgy evidence that will cause great harm...

Think about that exhaust, puffing out the back of every car, each little bit of CO2 heading into the air, into the sea, a little drop of poison for our planet.

Investor's Business Daily -- Bear Necessity

Environment: Once again, the president finds it's not so easy to scrap the policies of his much-maligned predecessor. As with Gitmo and military tribunals, so it goes with offshore drilling and even Arctic wildlife.

Bravo, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) [Video: talks about the "green jobs" disaster in Spain] [Via Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farms]

Monbiot tries to disprove Christopher Booker, then admits he boobed « An Honest Climate Debate

Arctic ice levels above average? Perhaps the Telegraph’s columnist should take just half a minute to check the facts...

The Steamboat Pilot & Today: Former governors debate climate change at Energy Summit

Owens, who served from 1999 to 2007 and is a senior fellow at the institute Lamm helps lead, said there is no proven evidence that greenhouse gases are the cause of the warming people see today and cited his own scientific support.
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Lamm added the financial cost tied to climate research and mitigation is worth the investment.

“Being in public policy is like sleeping with a blanket that’s too short,” he said. “Your shoulders get cold, and you pull up the blanket around your shoulders and your feet get cold.

“I think it’s not only a matter of the odds, it’s the stakes. When you really read the world’s top scientists, and they’re saying that our grandchildren’s future might be at stake in this thing, I always said that gets my attention big time.”

American Thinker: The Catlin Ice Follies

Meanwhile, a Russian expedition simply drove to the North Pole in trucks which might be described as HumVees on sterioids, with none of the discomforts the Catlin team experienced. But the Russians were more interested in oil than ice thickness. The Russians want to stake a claim to the oil rights in the Arctic Ocean while the Catlin team wants to save us from oil.
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With all the concern about the environment, we were surprised that there was no data released by the CAS about the extent of their carbon footprint for this expedition. So we decided to do it for them.

By using fuel consumption data for the De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft along with cruising speed and distances, we estimate that 84,000 lbs of CO2 were released into the atmosphere by the aircraft alone. There would be additional CO2 from flights from the UK to Canada.

The Russian expedition, by comparison, was far more environmentally friendly. We estimate their trucks released about 22,000 lbs of CO2, or about one quarter the amount of the CAS.

The bottom line is that the Catlin team did little to advance the knowledge of the condition of Arctic ice. But they did show that the Arctic weather can be brutal, cold and dangerous.

Climate fraud babble

I argued within can that supporting legal differentiation between non-Annex I countries will weaken can’s influence with developing countries. It’s not that such differentiation is not necessary; I am the co-author of the Greenhouse Development Rights framework, which quantifies obligations for all countries, North and South, on the basis of responsibility and capacity. But we also argue that the failure of the Annex I countries to meet their unfccc and Kyoto obligations means non-Annex I countries can’t yet be expected to agree to any new, binding targets. This is not to say non-Annex I countries should not make strong efforts to reduce emissions, but Annex I countries must not dictate terms. can must bring this perspective into Europe and the US.

Paul Baer is the research director of EcoEquity, a US-based organization that promotes climate justice

Scientific Jargon – “Would” “Will” “Could” “Might” “Maybe” « Watts Up With That?

And how many other global catastrophes have been forecast over the last 30 years? Seems like a new one nearly every week. The article goes on -

“A sea level rise of just 1.5m would displace 17 million people in Bangladesh alone,”

Sea level is currently rising at 2.378 mm/year. At that rate, it will take 631 years for sea level to rise 1.5 meters. During that time hundreds of billions of people may have lived and died – the ultimate displacement.

Jennifer Marohasy » Climate Change in Mississippi

INSTEAD of rising temperatures, the annual average temperature in Mississippi has declined over the past century. Instead of an increasing frequency of drought, the state’s moisture conditions have improved over the long run. Instead of failing crops, the state’s agricultural yields have been increasing. Natural cycles in the regional climate can largely explain changes in patterns of hurricane activity.

Power and Control: Wind Scam

...Turbines here are normally owned by investor groups that exist primarily to market the tax credits. The total cost of the turbine can be recouped in 3-5 years with these credits. The investor groups contract with the turbine manufacturers to install and operate the turbines for the 5 year warrantee period. By the time that the warrantee has expired, the turbines are paid for and any further running time is pure gravy. When they fail, shut them down and there is no loss.

Except, of course, to the tax payers that support this scam.

Energy deal clubs Obama tax hopes - Washington Times

"If the president gets an opportunity to sign a bill that puts into law this nation reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 83 percent by 2050, I think it will be hailed as a substantive achievement by all of those involved," [White House spokesman] Mr. Gibbs contended.
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No price has been set for the permits, although estimates have ranged from $12 to $200 per ton of carbon dioxide.
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The legislation keeps some of the more controversial provisions, including a provision that allows individuals to file "citizen suits" against the government if they can show harm from global warming and a "grandfather clause" for coal-powered plants backed by a powerful lobbying coalition that represents energy companies and other businesses.

Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill Advances | GreenBiz.com

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Public Citizen and TheCLEAN.org coalition are calling for politicians to dump the bill and start over.

“Despite the best efforts of Chairman Waxman, this bill has been seriously undermined by the lobbying of industries more concerned with profits than the plight of our planet,” Greenpeace USA Executive Director Phil Radford said in a statement. “While science clearly tells us that only dramatic action can prevent global warming and its catastrophic impacts, this bill has fallen prey to political infighting and industry pressure."

Obama: Yes we can [emphasize green jobs fraud more than climate fraud]

For the first time, utility companies and corporate leaders are joining, not opposing, environmental advocates and labor leaders to create a new system of clean energy initiatives that will help unleash a new era of growth and prosperity.

It’s a plan that will finally reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and cap the carbon pollution that threatens our health and our climate. Most important, it’s a plan that will trigger the creation of millions of new jobs for Americans, who will produce the wind turbines and solar panels and develop the alternative fuels to power the future. Because this we know: the nation that leads in 21st century clean energy is the nation that will lead the 21st century global economy. America can and must be that nation – and this agreement is a major step toward this goal.

Pelosi backs House energy bill [claiming that our economy needs energy rationing along with more bureacracy and fraud]

House speaker Nancy Pelosi backed U.S. energy policy being proposed by the House Energy and Commerce committee, saying it will help grow the economy and create jobs.

"If we not move on to a new energy policy it will be very costly to our economy," Pelosi said in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood that aired Friday. She added that energy, along with education and health care are top priorities of President Barack Obama's administration.

Canary head flying to nation’s capital | Aspen Daily News Online

City of Aspen Canary Initiative Director Kim Peterson will join more than 100 government climate and energy leaders from across the country in Washington, D.C., next week as part of the Local Climate Leadership Summit.
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“I’m very excited to be meeting with our elected representatives to encourage them to pass climate legislation and keep local governments ‘on the front burner’ of climate change,” Peterson said in a prepared statement. “Aspen is a leader on climate change, and we will be an important voice in Washington at this critical time.”

Lack of global warming strikes North Dakota cattle

...After all, that moisture was the result of an especially harsh winter.

First, ranchers were hit with calving deaths, estimated at more than 70-thousand across the state.

Now, they`re beginning to see losses among the calves that managed to survive the winter.

It`s spring. The grass is green, the sky is blue, but winter is still hanging on in cows all across the state.

"It doesn`t just end once the grass greens up," says Jonathan Marohl, of Novartis Animal Health. "It`ll affect these calves, and some of them it`ll affect lifelong performance on these calves."

One problem is disease. After spending a long winter in cramped conditions, cattle, especially the younger ones, are susceptible to things like scour and pneumonia.

"I hate to use the word snowball after this winter but it does have a snowball effect," says Marohl.

You know, since plants hate a little extra warmth and CO2: Climate Change [Allegedly] Raises Threat of Global Starvation - Bonnie Erbe (usnews.com)

Before the Green Revolution, it was fashionable to blame overpopulation for mass starvation. The explanation fell out of favor as the Malthusian claims in Paul Ehrlich's 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb proved wrong. Perhaps Ehrlich was just 40 years too early with his book, as the Malthusian catastrophe argument seems closer to reality now than four decades prior. This time, overpopulation combined with global warming (which is of course a product of overpopulation) may produce the next generation of food shortages.

Climate Change Truth

Marc Morano is the Executive Editor and Chief Correspondent for ClimateDepot.com, a global warming and eco-news center.

According to Marc, the environmental "left" has always had to have a crisis. In the '60's it was the scare that focused on chemicals such as DDT. In the '70's it was the overpopulation crisis and global cooling. In the 80's the concern was over the rain forests.

The ancient Druids were afraid of the weather and today we have people living in similar fashion as they go about communicating scenarios of environmental doom.

What does the scientific data really say about climate change? Could the hysteria have something to do with population and/or people control? What affect is global warming ideology having on young people? Get the answers to these and other questions concerning climate change on this edition of Crosstalk [MP3].

Australian Climate Madness: US climate madness

It's incredible that elected officials of the worlds only remaining superpower can spout such utter nonsense, and not be laughed out of the room. Such is the power and influence of the AGW religion. Fortunately, however, the bill has virtually zero chance of ever making it into law - the Republicans and a significant number of Democrats who can see through this charade will see to that.

450: GOP aims to lard climate bill - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

Republicans in the House Energy and Commerce committee are considering introducing about 450 amendments during the mark-up of climate change legislation next week, according to a working list obtained by POLITICO. Many of the potential amendments would lower the environmental standards set forth in the bill, or could make it more difficult for Democrats to vote to support it.

More from Gore's Climate Fraud Summit

David Suzuki shares insights about why the environmental movement is failing.
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Kathy Mattea in 2 hours-a gifted Tennessee songwriter. Kaki King last night;Kathy Mattea tonite; Elton John & Billy Joel tomorrow.All good

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Waxman and Markey divvy up [potential climate fraud billions]

Anyway, here is how the allowances are split up — summary courtesy of Greenwire...

Why WOULDN'T we blow a fortune to scrap perfectly good vehicles?: 'Cash for clunkers' bill hits speed bump

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation that would give car buyers a government voucher up to $4,500 when they trade in gas guzzlers hit a speed bump in the Senate amid concerns that a compromise between the White House and House Democrats doesn't go far enough to protect the environment.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who authored the "cash for clunkers" bill in the Senate, said Wednesday that she can't support the compromise announced last week after House Democrats met with President Barack Obama on global warming.

"Essentially what it means is that perfectly good vehicles would be scrapped, so that vehicles with below average fuel economy could be purchased," Feinstein said.

Twitter / Alan De Smet

What about Slashdot draws so many global warming deniers to post comment? Usually it's very pro-science.

How Fat Is a Polar Bear?: Maybe this could help explain why they've failed to go extinct even one time?

Some bears can carry almost 50% of their body mass as fat.

But of course: Riding your bike improves the weather

The House climate bill requires every state and metropolitan area with more than 200,000 residents to devise plans for reducing transportation-related carbon emissions. The bill directs states and localities to draft plans that "consider transportation and land use strategies" that encourage transit use, walking and bike riding, as well as equal access by all users.

The Washington Independent » More Fire From Environmentalists Over Dems Climate Change Bill

...environmentalists are calling for Democrats to scrap this proposal and start the process anew — this time focusing their climate change bill on alleviating climate change, not catering to the polluters causing climate change.

Bill opponents might yet be in luck. That’s because even in its watered down state, the Waxman bill is still too radical for most Republicans to swallow. That won’t matter so much in the House, but this thing might easily die in the Senate.

A ‘Breakthrough Technology’ - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Of course, building a solar house in a state that is in winter overcast six months out of the year might seem a tad ambitious. But its green builders promised that the home’s full-roof solar panels would not only provide electricity, but also charge a home battery system that would store energy for all heating needs.

Or not.

Lead Auditor / Climate Change [Fraud] Project Manager  - Los Angeles, CA

We are seeking a Climate Change Project Manager / Lead Auditor to oversee and participate in the verification of GHG inventories and emission reduction projects throughout the western United States.

Are we sure that carbon dioxide caused the North Dakota floods?

The crest of 1897, more than 100 years ago, was a foot higher than this year’s crest. Were farmers draining less then? How about 15 years of an extreme wet cycle — might those not have something to do with flooding? What about building in flood-prone areas?

Then, there’s the fact that this past winter saw extreme cold (thanks to Al Gore’s global warming) and caused “concrete frost,” an abnormally hard frost because of the moisture content in the ground.

How Green » Blog Archive » Fears of Global Decline in Bees Dismissed as Demand for Honey Grows

The threat of a world without bees has been described as more serious than climate change. But world honeybee colonies have actually increased by almost half over the past 50 years, according to an analysis of U.N. figures.

From alarmist Chris Mooney, 2005: Some Like It Hot | Mother Jones

Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil.

CNSNews.com - ‘No Child Left Inside Act' Would Spend $500M Teaching 'Environmental Literacy' Starting in Kindergarten

(CNSNews.com) - Surrounded by elementary students from the Green School in Baltimore and charming critters – including an armadillo, cheetah and an Asian Toddy Cat – Democrats declared that the introduction of the “No Child Left Inside Act of 2009” was “historic” legislation that would connect children with nature. Some critics, however, said it is a way to spread environmental propaganda in the public schools.

Canada: Cold weather prompts ideas of more flax acres

(Resource News International) -- Continued cold and wet weather conditions across much of Manitoba and into eastern regions of Saskatchewan are forcing producers to look at alternative crop choices, including flaxseed.

"Over the past week or so there has been a lot of producers in both provinces picking up flaxseed from seed dealers as the lateness of seeding has begun to cause concern," said Ben Friesen, a grain buyer with Keystone Grain Ltd. at Winkler, Man.

Flaxseed may not have been their first choice of a crop to put into the ground, he said, but the fact that it can handle the cold better than others at harvest time is attracting some attention.

Portland presenting at climate change conference in South Korea – OregonLive.com

Two city of Portland sustainability officials will travel to Seoul, South Korea this weekend to represent the city at a global conference on how cities can address climate change.

Big Dogs House » Blog Archive » Al Gore Is Mistaken

The fact remains, Al Gore was critical of George Bush earlier than the two years he claimed in the CNN interview. In his rush to smear Cheney and defend Obama, Gore made himself look like a fool. Not that the MSM would follow up on that and not that Gore needed this to look like a fool.

Romney's critique - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

President Obama is anxious to impose a new cap-and-trade carbon tax on Americans. I wish he understood that if we unilaterally place a very substantial cap-and-trade burden on ourselves, the major energy-using industries will simply pack up and go elsewhere.

You don’t deal with global problems by penalizing only our own citizens. They don’t call it “America warming.” They call it global warming!

Dialogue yields no easy answers on climate change legislation

While congressional leaders were working out a compromise on climate change legislation Thursday in Washington, D.C., debate was tempered during a half-day mini conference in downtown Charleston on the same topic.

Environmental and citizens groups made statements, asked questions and challenged some assertions made by climate researchers during the four-hour forum; but, in the end, no one offered any solid answers on how the pending legislation would specifically affect the environment or economy of South Carolina. A study by a Clemson University economist offered a stark view of how the legislation would affect the national economy.

Just what we need: A government-regulated carbon derivatives market layered on top of the cap-and-trade swindle, layered on top of massive climate change fraud, all in the name of US government global weather control

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. regulator that oversees futures markets, such as the New York Mercantile Exchange, would also have jurisdiction over the trading of new derivative contracts based on carbon emissions, under a new bill introduced in the House of Representatives.

The bill, sponsored by Representative Bart Stupak, comes as the House Energy and Commerce Committee aims to pass next week separate legislation that would cut U.S. carbon emissions linked to global warming and require companies to have permits to spew their emissions.

Stupak told reporters on Friday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should oversee the carbon derivatives market that will be created from the climate change bill to prevent speculators from manipulating the market.

"The carbon derivatives market should be based on a strong regulatory framework," Stupak said. "The finite nature of carbon credits and absence of a physical commodity leave it particularly vulnerable to speculation."

Poverty: the real threat to health - modernghana.com/feature article

A major new report from doctors at University College, London, and medical journal The Lancet claims that climate change “is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” Their solution means permanent recession, more famine and more disease.

Global Warming Regs Will Hand Our Children a Lower Standard of Living » The Foundry

A cap and trade plan is doing nothing but increasing that monthly payment for our children. By a lot. In an attempt to protect our children’s future, we’re doing just the opposite – all for a temperature change they’ll never notice in the first place. And in addition to more debt, we’re leaving them with a world with lower income, higher unemployment and higher energy costs.

In truth, the only thing we’re protecting our children from is a better life.

Question Whether CO2 is a Pollutant and MSNBC's Schultz Calls it 'Psycho Talk' | NewsBusters.org

According to Schultz, human-emitted CO2 and so-called industrial CO2 are two separate things.

Al Gore brings climate [swindle] campaign to Nashville

At least 500 "presenters" trained earlier will attend the two-day event, which includes panel discussions and a plan for activism. The architect of that plan is Steve Hildebrand, deputy director of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Oklahoma Farm Report - House Ag Minority Leader Frank Lucas Dubious About Cap and Trade Benefit for Agriculture

These comments line up with what he told a group of wheat producers on Monday May 11 in Canadian County, Oklahoma in his home district. He sees Cap and Trade as a massive transfer of wealth in the name of saving the planet- with the real reason for it to be moved at any cost is the need of having that pot of money to pay for nationalizing health care in the US and putting every health care professional in the country to work for Uncle Sam. And the Congressman adds that there is little chance that agriculture will benefit from Cap and Trade- but rather will have more regulations and more cost piled on in virtually every farming or ranching activity they are involved in.

If this is a climate bill, why so little mention of the climate in this announcement?!

Chairmen Waxman and Markey Introduce “The American Clean Energy and Security Act”

Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward J. Markey introduced "H.R. 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act." The Energy and Commerce Committee will begin markup of the bill on Monday, May 18, 2009, at 1:00 p.m., and will complete consideration before the Memorial Day recess.

"The legislation will create millions of new clean energy jobs, save consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs, promote America's energy independence and security, and cut global warming pollution," said Chairman Waxman. "In support of these goals, this legislation ensures that consumers and industries in all regions of the country are protected. I look forward to working with all members of the Committee to approve this legislation to make America the world leader in new clean energy and energy efficiency technologies."

"This bill marks the dawn of the clean energy age," said Subcommittee Chairman Markey. "This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revive our economy and create millions of good-paying clean energy jobs. After months of hearings and discussions with my colleagues, I am pleased that we have produced a bill that has widespread support from all regions of the country."

Live near coal ash? 1 in 50 chance of cancer. | MNN - Mother Nature Network

The Bush Administration buried a report by the EPA that came out in 2002 that found that people living near coal ash ponds had a 1 in 50 risk of developing cancer.

Radiation Information About the Odds of Cancer | Radiation Information and Answers

Number of Cancers That Occur over a Lifetime in a Population of One Million People Odds of Cancer (natural occurrence):
Cancer Baseline 420,000*  [1 in 2.4]

US Draft Climate Bill Could Spark House-Democrat Tussle

"The approach of giving away allowances to one special interest after another may have political appeal, but it is a costly and inefficient way to address climate change," Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Tex., said in a statement to Dow Jones Newswires. "And every allowance given away represents revenue denied to consumers."

Another Ways and Means member, Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., said there could be political peril for Democrats if consumers don't get a large enough benefit from the cap-and-trade system.

"The way to approach this is with 100% give-back to consumers," he said in an interview with Dow Jones. "If we don't we're going to be blamed for every rate increase for the next 50 years."

Remember, the alleged purpose of this bill is to improve the world's weather.  Why don't opponents of this bill continually hammer on the complete insanity of that proposition?

A World Sliding Into Danger - Forbes.com

We fret about the possibility that our light bulbs might in some uncertain and marginal manner affect the climate of the planet, thus requiring mankind to adapt. Meanwhile, we forget that until Thomas Edison arrived on the scene, less than 200 years ago, mankind had to adapt not only to a climate that was in any event constantly changing, but also to the costly inconvenience of nothing more than oil lamps or candlelight after the sun went down.

Here’s one you won’t hear from Al Gore — VOICES for REASON

So a warmer and more humid climate could be a huge benefit to flu sufferers. It’s too bad that global average temperatures have plateaued and currently appear to be declining.

» The Cap and Trade scam >> blogmocracy.com: lgf 2.0

The proposed Cap and Trade Bill is really just a scam. It is pork bill where the US Government will give out energy credits to companies for carbon. If they need to exceed the credits, they trade with another company. This really sounds like a scam that will give the government power. Speculators will get rich and the average American will pay higher energy rates. In other words, this is a scam.

Nashville - Why Do So Many Nashvillians Hate Al Gore?

So I'm having lunch yesterday with a friend--intelligent, educated, 30-ish--and I bring up the subject of Al Gore and his Nashville-based Climate Project, which held its North American Summit this week at the Hutton Hotel on West End.

"I hate Al Gore," she blurted out, before I'd had a chance to finish the sentence. She's particularly irked because she feels he's just an opportunist trying to cash in on the global warming panic. Oh, and he was rude to her and other workers at a restaurant, allegedly tipping the server 10 percent after running her ragged.

Cold weather in Manitoba delays mosquito season

There is a bright side to all the cold, snowy weather drifting through Manitoba: Mosquitoes are taking a hit.

The City of Winnipeg's insect control branch said on Friday that the cool temperatures have resulted in slower larval development. That has allowed helicopter and ground crews to get a jump on them by applying larvicide to a significant number of standing water sites.

Insanity: EPA suggests that you can use your ceiling fan to improve Earth's climate

“These are good, common-sense tips that can help everybody contribute to the effort to do something about climate change,” said Cheryl Newton, director of the EPA Region 5 Air and Radiation Division.

Here are some tips to save energy and help protect the environment at home and at work:
• Set your programmable thermostat to save while you are away or asleep. Using it properly can save up to $180 per year in energy costs.
• Run ceiling fans in a clockwise direction to create a wind-chill effect that will make you “feel” cooler. Remember that ceiling fans cool people, not rooms -- so turn them off when you leave the room.

Economic Strangulation: The Environmentalist/Democrat War Against Energy

This green agenda is more than absurd, it is sinister. The real goal of greens is not “clean energy” but less energy. Energy is essential to economic progress, and many greens want to halt and reverse economic progress. Some radical greens have praised Fidel Castro for de-developing Cuba. Al Gore wrote in his book “Earth in the Balance” that U.S. policy should aim for slower economic growth. President Obama’s chief science advisor John Holdren’s top two environmental goals are to shrink the human population and to slow economic growth.

So here we are, in the midst of a severe economic crisis, and the ruling party is pursuing an anti-energy agenda that would further cripple economic activity. They seem oblivious to the fact that poverty is the most lethal environment for human beings. (Life expectancy in the United States declined during the Great Depression.) What a grim price we will pay for the green agenda.

Worth waiting for - theage.com.au

WHEN you're regarded as one of the country's top wine producers, especially of riesling, it's depressing to think a lousy 500 cases of wine is all that was made from the 2007 vintage. Damn the frost that did most of the damage at Crawford River in western Victoria's Henty region. This remote winery normally makes about 7000 cases, including a stunning riesling with fruit sourced from 34-year-old vines that produces a more complex wine than the zippy and zingy one made from eight-year-old vines.

House Energy Democrats to Give Away Majority of CO2 [Swindle] Credits - WSJ.com

Few Capitol Hill watchers think a climate bill can pass this year in the Senate, but if the deal passes through the committee, it could alter prospects in the other chamber. The Senate is seen has having a stronger moderate base than in the House, though with many of the same concerns.

Still, success in the House would give the president bargaining leverage at a major international climate summit later this year.

On June 2, why not throw a house party to promote the greatest scientific fraud in history?

3. Throw a house party on June 2 to help us launch our Big Picture campaign, which will keep up steady support of Obama's climate-change policies in the coming year. The EPA ruling on global warming pollution is one of many administrative decisions we expect, and they'll need strong public support. During the house parties you'll watch "behind the scenes" videos of the EPA hearings, participate in a conference call with Sierra Club leaders who are closely tracking the issue, and discuss which actions we can all take to move us toward a clean energy future. If you can't host a party, look for one near you.

Zagat Nightlife: Fight Global Warming With A Drink At Greenhouse

Imagine fighting global warming, while partying at a hot new night club. That's the idea behind Greenhouse, the city's first eco-friendly lounge.

Smoking Gun Memo on C02 Myth

RUSH: The EPA put out a memo. It's an Obama administration memo. This memo admits that CO2 is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. This memo alludes to the fact that there is no proof. Somebody in the Obama administration really goofed up.

Now, you haven't heard about this, you had to have seen C-SPAN to know about this, but this memo is out there that CO2 is not a pollutant, that there's no evidence that CO2 is leading to the warming of the planet. There is a memo that pretty much debunks everything environmental wackos and global warming people are putting out, and it came from the Obama administration. And what's interesting about it is that the EPA was just given the authority by the Supreme Court to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. So the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee had a hearing on the proposed fiscal 2010 budget for the EPA. Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, had a conversation with the EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson. Now, Barrasso opened and he said this.

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The internal combustion engine has seen it's day: Al Gore at #tcpsummit

Waxman-Markey Bill: It’s Giveaway Time for Emissions [Swindle] Permits - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Using the administration’s ballpark estimates of what the permits would be worth, the first-year giveaways amount to about $55 billion.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce sharpens critique of House climate [fraud] bill - NYTimes.com

Major climate and energy legislation moving through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would create an expensive, complicated, regulation-heavy system that would not spur developing nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce charges in a letter to lawmakers.
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Dave Hamilton, who directs the Sierra Club's global warming and energy programs, dismissed the chamber's letter as "fear-mongering."

"This letter doesn't attempt to explain the program detail," Hamilton added. "It's just trying stir up hysteria."

Anyone for a $900k, 800-square foot unsafe house?: Troy's celebrated solar house left in dark | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Troy -- It was supposed to be a shining example of the green movement -- a completely independent solar-powered house with no gas or electrical hookups.

Seven months ago, officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the $900,000 house owned by the city of Troy that was to be used as an educational tool and meeting spot.

But it never opened to the public. And it remains closed.

Frozen pipes during the winter caused $16,000 in damage to floors, and city officials aren't sure when the house at the Troy Community Center will open.

"It's not safe right now, and there's no estimated opening time because it depends on when we can get funding," said Carol Anderson, director of the city's Parks and Recreation Department.
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Its students built the 800-square-foot home, which was supposed to be livable year-round, free from the grid and churn out enough solar power to support a home-based business and electric vehicle.

Global warming explorers in Arctic get nasty shock: polar ice caps blooming freezing :: James Delingpole

"For the sake of our children and grandchildren, I pray that we will heed the findings of the Catlin arctic survey," said the Prince of Wales when he launched what he called this "remarkably important project."

For once HRH and I are in complete agreement. Thanks to this expedition's selfless heroism, we now know that:

1. The Arctic is extremely parky.

2. Even parkier in fact than we could ever have suspected.

3. We can put our melting ice cap terror on hold for a while.

4. And our fears about melting polar bears.

5. Drinks all round, I say. Creme de Menthe frappe, anyone?

Fractured Thinking - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Instead, next week, Rep. Diana DeGette (D., Colo.) is expected to slip a 97-word amendment into what was a 670-page cap-and-trade bill (that has since ballooned to 1,000 pages, reportedly — because, as James Hansen notes, it takes a lot of pages to buy votes for such an odious enterprise). This gem would give the EPA the regulatory reins over hydraulic fracturing — which, if you’ve ever had to deal with them, and if you’ve read the newspapers lately, is code for stopping it.

Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills « Watts Up With That?

A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California.

The new study shows the oil content of sediments is highest closest to the seeps and tails off with distance, creating an oil fallout shadow. It estimates the amount of oil in the sediments down current from the seeps to be the equivalent of approximately 8-80 Exxon Valdez oil spills.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cap-and-trade [swindle]: Imperialism of the populous states?

We’ve reviewed Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade policies from a number of angles, but Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana has a unique analysis that bears consideration. He sees cap-and-trade not just as an overall tax burden on the energy consumer, although he certainly agrees that it is, nor as a penalty for fossil-fuel producers, which Daniels also sees. Daniels suggests that the real reason for cap-and-trade is for liberal, coastal states to suck tax dollars out of the Rust Belt in a case of interstate imperialism...

A Romantic Candlelit . . . Surgery? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

OK, so that's a bit of an exaggeration. But Mayor Bloomberg wants carbon cuts from the city's hospitals...

Where's Jim Hansen?: The Climate [Fraud] Project Brings Together Historic Gathering of World's [Climate Change Fraudsters]

The following are some of the experts and leaders that will attend:

--Honorable Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President, Founder of The Climate Project, Founder and Chairman of The Alliance for Climate Protection
--Mrs. Tipper Gore, author, photographer, former Second Lady of the United States
--Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Price with Gore
--David Suzuki, scientist, broadcaster, environmental activist
--Steve Hildebrand, Democratic political strategist, Deputy National Campaign Director for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
--Steve Bouchard, veteran political strategist and Repower America Campaign Manager

Imperial Valley News - NASA Announces Global Climate Change [Propaganda] Grant Awards

Washington, DC - NASA has awarded $6.4 million in grants to institutions of higher education and not-for-profit education organizations nationwide to enhance learning through the use of NASA's Earth science resources.

the energy report - The Old Days

And what about building that summertime hurricane premium into the oil and gas market? You know that as Al Gore warned us about those darn inconvenient truths that because of global warming we are going to always see those massive hurricanes. In fact Al has proven to himself that the two main causes of hurricane Katrina were global warming and the Bush administration. So surely again this year with another year of greenhouse gases we should be getting ready for the mother of all hurricane seasons! Well not so fast. In a first time interview with Reuter’s news Colorado State University hurricane forecaster Bill Gray said he may reduce his next Atlantic season forecast because sea temperatures are cooling and a weak El Nino may appear by late summer. "Things are looking better and better for fewer storms," Gray told Reuters in an interview at the Florida Governor's Hurricane Conference in Fort Lauderdale. "Off the west African coast there's colder water. There's increasing high pressure in the Azores Islands that typically makes the trade winds stronger." How could there be colder water in this era of global warming?! Why are global temperatures falling instead of rising this decade? Does this mean that hot head Al Gore should chill out? Maybe he will have to give his Oscar back!

The Soda-Pop Taxers Are Back by Phil Kerpen on NRO Financial

There’s also a much bigger energy excise tax on the table. The president’s cap-and-trade proposal for the 2010 budget is a de facto excise tax on items that throw off carbon emissions during production, as well as on every other technology that relies on the most affordable energy sources (natural gas, oil, and coal). In the budget blueprint, this tax is projected to raise $645 billion, but White House economist Jason Furman has said it could raise two or three times that amount.

Lack of global warming strikes University of Hawaii graduation

People wanting to give fragrant, locally grown lei for tomorrow's graduation at the University of Hawai'i most likely will have to settle for imported orchids that don't smell nearly as nice.

An unusually wet and cold growing season stunted this year's crop of tuberose, pikake, puakenikeni, ginger and other flowers popular for lei — just as demand has spiked for May Day, Mother's Day and high school and college graduations.

The dark and wet conditions also made the crops vulnerable to rot and fungus, and the continued rains often washed away chemical treatments.

"It was very cold for most of February and March and well into April," said Edwin Mersino, a county extension agent who works with growers on O'ahu. "It was unseasonably cold on average — 5 to 10 degrees colder. So the plants were set back and things didn't grow as fast. For many of the growers, they're going to miss graduation."

Lack of global warming strikes Edmonton: Mother Nature gives cold shoulder to May long weekend campers

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fires are so -- umm, banned.

With low temperatures forecast to hover around or slip below zero over the next few days -- with up to 10 centimetres of snow predicted for Tuesday -- Mother Nature is testing the mettle of Edmontonians this May long weekend.

Not only will long weekend campers be forced to bundle up against the unseasonable chill, but dry and windy conditions have resulted in several fire bans across the province, meaning campfire comfort may be out for some.

It's Alive!: Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter. - Reason Magazine

Obama has promised to “invest” $150 billion in new energy research and development during the next 10 years. “To truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change,” the new president declared in his February address to Congress, “we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy.” What he presented as bold new policy has a long and decidedly untransformative track record. The main difference in 2009 is that an unfounded fear of depleting global resources has been replaced with an exaggerated fear of global warming.
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Nearly all of the $3.4 billion in stimulus money for fossil fuel research is expected to be [blown] on carbon capture and sequestration projects, which are intended to demonstrate the feasibility of capturing carbon dioxide produced by power plants and injecting it underground, thus preventing the gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to global warming.

If climate change were not a concern, humanity could easily power its economic development using abundant coal and natural gas supplies for decades to come.

Video - Gore pitches climate fraud on CNN

CNN's John Roberts talks with former Vice President Al Gore about global warming. [Roberts actually asks a question along the lines of "Why don't the American people care about your 'crisis'?"]

Shenanigans: The lighter side of politics - POLITICO.com

Barrasso’s a YouTube hit

Sen. John Barrasso is quite popular on YouTube. His grilling of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson over the EPA’s “smoking gun” memo has outranked “America’s Next Top Model” in YouTube rankings, which says a lot either about people’s obsession with EPA hearings or about “ANTM.”

Days Late and a Few Euros Short, Amigos - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Someone informed me today that the White House has decided to stop invoking Spain's "green jobs" experience. This is on the heels of a devastating report widely carried in U.S. and Spanish media revealing that this supposed example for America to follow was actually a bit of a disaster — one that Spain had been hoping we would help bail them out of by buying into, specifically by buying their windmills and solar panels. The latter objective comes to us courtesy of the head of Spain's renewable-energy association, who was reduced to calling the study's author unpatriotic for letting the cat out of the bag, and who would save them now?

ABC admits: we shouldn’t have flogged Earth Hour | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

To explain, those cited sections of the ABC’s editorial policies prohibit the broadcast of material likely to compromise the ABC/’s independence, directly promote a political issue and take a position on a contentious issue. How did Robyn ”100 metres” Williams not know his announcements would offend the ABC’s rules on three grounds?

Environmentalists make life difficult for people with respiratory disease - Megan McArdle

It would be one thing if this was necessary to save the ozone. But it's just mindless bureaucratic indifference. The amount of CFCs used for all pulmonary uses peaked at 1% of total peak industrial output in 1999. They were not the culprit behind the hole in the ozone layer. And testing these things on only mild-to-moderate asthmatics for short periods of time, which is all the FDA did before phasing them out, seems borderline criminal.

Marx in a Pony Tail - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

This piece by Fox News addresses a small number of the things that make a video aimed at terrorizing children an outrage. It skips over thrashing the Marx and Malthus, though they allowed me to note it (and on the tube, here). The gentleman on the show with me admitted the scare tactics — indicating this is a little more attention than filmmakers expected and, more importantly, than they'd hoped for — and that they're scrubbing out, say, the skulls and crossbones. Now, how about taking out the things that are untrue?

Lisa Jackson, Head Of The EPA, Talks Climate Change And Small Business On The "Daily Show" (VIDEO)

Jon then questioned whether or not global warming was a bad thing, citing New Hampshire in winter. Ms. Jackson laughed but held to her strong message of fossil fuel reduction and a commitment to economically efficient green initiatives.

Interestingly, even Jon Stewart sounds a little skeptical about the idea of government climate control.

Gore talks about politics, polls and protests - NYTimes.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Former Vice President Al Gore has "not ruled out" engaging in civil disobedience against new coal plants.
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Gore's first comments about civil disobedience occurred in March, when he encouraged young people to engage in peaceful protests against coal plants. Since then, activists across the country have been arrested, but Gore himself has not taken to the streets.

Yesterday, he said that he didn't think his time would best be used in such action, even as he said his friends have been out there and he has "not ruled out" the possibility of joining in.
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He said he hoped Obama would attend international negotiations later this year in Copenhagen to forge an international agreement on global warming, but said getting a bill through Congress was "more crucial."

As part of a push to help that process, Gore's Repower America project is targeting swing votes in the House Energy and Commerce committee via new television, radio and Internet advertisements. This week, Gore-backed advocates will be holding some 36 town halls in the congressional districts of committee moderates. They already have sent about 59,000 letters to the editors of media outlets and flooded congressional staffers with phone calls about the bill, the former vice president said.
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Asked whether he is too much of a political lightning rod to to be effective, Gore said he "doesn't buy into" the argument that he is the root of the partisanship. Polls also show that people across the political spectrum care about congressional action when asked about global warming separately, he noted. He added that he speaks with many Republicans and never has difficulty "convincing people."

Solar firm PV Crystalox warns on sales, shares hit | Green Business | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - British solar company PV Crystalox Solar warned on first-half revenues, on the back of order deferrals, and said it could not guarantee achieving planned 2009 volumes, sending its shares down over 20 percent.

U.S. steelmakers fear burden in climate rules | Green Business | Reuters

Ward Timken Jr, chairman of Timken Co, which makes specialty steel and industrial bearings, is a vocal opponent of the proposed legislation and has warned politicians to take their time to consider the implications.

"The national policy of cap-and-trade has serious implications for the competitiveness of American manufacturing and I urge Washington legislators to pause in the rush to approve cap-and-trade," he said.

CPC, Socialist Int'l urge developed world to help fight climate change _English_Xinhua

The Communist Party of China (CPC), with more than 70 million members, and the Socialist International (SI), which brings together 170 political parties and organizations worldwide, devoted the one-day talks to global warming, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

More pure climate fraud from Al Gore

Emissions from fossil fuels are rising faster than projected, former Vice President Al Gore told hundreds gathered Thursday night for The Climate Project's North American Summit in Nashville.
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"Temperatures are rising more rapidly," he said. "The ice is melting more rapidly."
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"This is our time," Gore said. "This is our opportunity."
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Colette Divine, an actor from Los Angeles, had come to be one of a small group of about 50 who would be newly trained to give presentations.

"I'm doing it because I care about the environment," she said, admitting a bit later with a laugh that she had originally thought she was signing up for a paying job.
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Elsewhere, two old hands — Laura Waters, an environmental consultant from Atlanta, and Sandy Hoyte, a physician from Raleigh, N.C. — chatted, saying children are the most receptive audiences for their talks.

"They've got a lot of curiosity," Hoyte said, adding that they also have enough science knowledge to understand.

Every group of adults invariably includes one skeptic who seems to be there just to try to "rile people up," Waters said.

Chamber of Commerce Details Opposition to Waxman-Markey Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Anyone who thought the specter of Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions would push the business community into the arms of Congress’ current climate bill appears to have been mistaken. And what was dubbed the “starting point” for climate legislation is turning out to be the starting point of an increasingly acrimonious debate.

Cap and Horse Trade - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit, Mich. — Coastal Democrats cannot get their cap-and-trade bill passed without Midwest members of their own party who are concerned about its impact on industrial states. So on Thursday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.) announced a deal paying off the Michigan delegation by guaranteeing that three percent of all revenue from the “Obama Energy Tax” will go to the auto industry.

Using carbon revenues as a kind of slush fund, Waxman has been cutting a series of deals to bring wary industrial-state Democrats and their constituent industries on board.
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In addition to the auto bribes, Texas Reps. Gene Green and Charles Gonzalez are talking to Waxman about setting aside over 5 percent of total carbon-tax revenues for the refining industry. Waxman has also brought key Rep. Rick Boucher (D., Va.) on board after throwing money at the coal industry.

Of course, the original purpose of the bill was to redistribute wealth to green projects and low- to middle-income Americans. So all this horse-trading with Big Business is making some Democrats nervous. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D., N.C.) says that — after accounting for industry giveaways — only $18 billion in carbon revenue is left for the poor. That’s “woefully inadequate to provide the safety net,” he says.

Rep Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.), is similarly concerned. “Whether you call it a tax, everyone agrees that it’s going to increase the cost to the consumer,” said Rangel. “At the end of the day . . . if there’s nothing there to repay (consumers) for their financial expenditures, it might be difficult to fight Republicans who call this a tax.”

Global warming may be last on Americans’ priority list, but it is big business for Washington’s political class.

The great global warming debate, Phase 2 - On Line Opinion - 15/5/2009

Hopefully future debate will be informed more by scientific evidence than convenient ideology, and here both scientists and media have a critical role to play as the science needs to be communicated much better.

There are growing signs that scientists are willing to speak out on these issues, which is an important development. In playing their usual limited role - to merely generate the science to inform debate undertaken by others - they just left the field open to the so-called sceptics who managed to convey the impression that the science was much less certain than it is.

Yesterday in parliament | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary, was accused of making the "largest financial errors ever made by a minister".

Peter Lilley, the former Tory cabinet minister, said the Climate Change Act would now cost every single household about £20,000 and urged Miliband to make a statement to MPs.

Harman said she would raise the matter with Miliband.

Dispatch from an allegedly overheated world: Recession freezing out cold-weather baseball teams - mlb - SI.com

Even in boon times, weather has been a major problem for programs north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Most cold-weather programs start the first month of the season on costly road trips down South. It's often far from tropical when they return home, making it tough to generate local interest and revenue from fans unwilling to bundle up for spring baseball. All that puts a serious damper on recruiting, making it tough to lure top-notch prospects.

The numbers paint a chilling picture. Nebraska and Wichita State were the only schools in the North or Midwest to crack the top 20 in average home attendance in 2008, and Oregon State's national titles in 2006 and 2007 went against the grain in the College World Series, which has been dominated by warm-weather teams since the 1960s.

And another dispatch from an allegedly overheated world: Mechanical wind ease frost damage - 15/05/2009

He produces 100 tonnes of fruit a year, and hopes the new machine will protect it from frosts, which have destroyed whole crops.

"The damage that a frost does to a stone fruit crop can be devastating, even worse than a hail storm, and that is what has happened the last two years," he says.

"The cost of the machine is $23 000.

"In one morning last year, there was a $100,000 frost. If that happens again, it is paid for four times over."

Global warming bill becomes another Washington porkfest Opinion Articles

Rather than stopping the rise of the oceans, President Barack Obama’s push for greenhouse gas regulations is turning into another all-you-can-eat porkfest. As Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., prepares to introduce a climate bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee he chairs, big businesses and their well-connected lobbyists are lining up with the hope of getting rich off these regulations.

An early winner looks to be the power companies, represented in Washington by the Edison Electric Institute. U.S. automakers, soon to be controlled in part by the labor unions who so generously fund the Democratic Party, are also among a handful of likely beneficiaries of this legislation.
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Cap-and-giveaway is not a matter of toothless regulation as much as an instance of regulatory robbery. The companies being given free credits are not being given free passes from new regulations—they are actually being given free money.

The price the government charges for GHG credits doesn’t determine the price at which the credits will sell on the open market. A free GHG credit is not worth zero just as a World Series ticket won in a sweepstakes is not worth zero. The price will be set by supply (how many total credits, auctioned or given away, are in circulation) and demand (the difficulty of reducing emissions and the fine for over-emitting).

So, when government gives credits to electric companies, it is simply giving money to those companies while making it more expensive for everyone else to do business. The utilities could sell the free credits unless Congress prohibits selling some credits, which would defeat half the purpose of cap-and-trade.

Viewpoint: The high cost of climate fear-mongering -- baltimoresun.com

There you have it, a perfect piece of legislation: ridiculously expensive and totally ineffective in its stated purpose - so in keeping with the times.

American Thinker Blog: More Carbon: The Only Answer to Global Freezing

Etcetera ad infinitum. You've heard it before. Just flip the temperature story from high to low. The polar bears are all going to live, but the desert jackals are all going extinct. Along with James Hansen and the other global fraudsters.

Now watch the political class jump on the Global Freezing bandwagon. They don't care. Doom is doom! Money is money. Power is power.

Global Freezing? Goody! It's another jackpot!

C3: Require All U.S. States To Achieve Zero CO2: What Would Be Impact On Global Temps? Familiar With 'Nada'?

This third recent analysis confirms what our site reported here, and what the MasterResource blog reported based on their analysis last week. The conclusions: Fundamentally, that if the U.S. could reduce CO2 emissions to zero, the impact on global temperatures of that reduction will be negligible (barely measurable) by years 2050 and 2100. Literally, we can throw trillions of dollars down the CO2-reduction rat hole and gain absolutely nothing in return. This is especially true considering China's unbelievable growth of CO2 emissions.

David Frum: Cap and trade is a racket. And Democrats are ready to cash in - Full Comment

Who says Democrats wish to take from the poor to give to the rich?

In practice, they much prefer to take from everyone to give to their friends!

In the name of environmental protection, Democrats are readying just such a transfer on a scale that would have impressed the Pharaohs. Tens of billions of dollars, possibly hundreds of billions, will be shifted from American consumers of electricity to shareholders of favored utility companies in primarily blue states. Under the leadership of uber-liberal Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Democrats are determined to make their plan so complicated that taxpayers will not notice the flocks of dollars migrating from the middle of the country to the coasts.

Waxman’s Lower Standards Do Not Reduce Costs to Consumers » The Foundry

In truth, these concessions should be read as redistributive policy that attempt to mask the economic costs of the bill. Unfortunately, even if government selects a few winners, it’s the consumer that still ends up on the losing side.

Paul Krugman - Empire of Carbon - [How about we start a massive trade war over the greatest scientific fraud of all time?] - NYTimes.com

As the United States and other advanced countries finally move to confront climate change, they will also be morally empowered to confront those nations that refuse to act. Sooner than most people think, countries that refuse to limit their greenhouse gas emissions will face sanctions, probably in the form of taxes on their exports. They will complain bitterly that this is protectionism, but so what? Globalization doesn’t do much good if the globe itself becomes unlivable.

It’s time to save the planet. And like it or not, China will have to do its part.

The Reference Frame: Paper: Greenland melt will add 18 cm by 2100

Their simulation rules out catastrophic hypotheses about the melting ice in Greenland, e.g. those by James Hansen (do you remember scientific reticence where he waved his hands about similar feedbacks and predicted 10-meter rise of sea level per century?). The simulation predicts 18 centimeters of rising sea levels by 2100 from this major source.

Skeptic's Corner: The Catlin Arctic Fraud (2)

Discussed previously was this teams’ questionable supporters, radical environmental groups with political agendas; their sentiment for this mission, “to secure a solution" in Copenhagen; and their funding sponsor, Catlin, an insurance company in the market to profit from global warming. Now that they’re off the ice and the ‘data’ has been collected one still must consider their motives and question the statements coming from this group.

For example, upon reaching Resolute the expedition leader, and most vocal member regarding climate change, Pen Hadow, said that the teams’ decision to end their mission was due to “an earlier than expected start to the summer melt season”. One must wonder how Pen didn’t come to the same conclusion in 2003 during his solo mission to the North Pole when sea-ice extent was over a quarter million square kilometers less than the same date this year.

Torture? Gore: “And slideshows are being shown intensively in the districts where undecided members of Congress are…trying to decide how they’re going to vote on this bill”

“Slide shows are being shown intensively”? That’s certainly torture to me. I think I’d rather be water-boarded than watch Gore’s AIT slideshow one more time.

The AP is reporting that Al Gore is in full-court desperation mode...

Does Edward Markey have any freakin' idea what the world will be like in 2109?

Under the Democrats' compromise bill, the free emissions permits for electric utilities would begin to phase out in 2026. By 2030, 100 percent of pollution permits would have to be bought by the utilities, Boucher said.

"We are creating a 100-year solution to carbon, but we create a transition to protect the consumers," said Representative Edward Markey, one of the authors of the bill.

Evangelicals Disagree on Climate Change Bill| Christianpost.com

The We Get It! Campaign, a Christian grassroots movement that believes the seriousness of global warming has been overhyped, shares EEN's concern about how the new climate change policies might affect the poor. But unlike the EEN, the We Get It! campaign is against the cap-and-trade system.

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, founder and national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation as well as a spokesman for the We Get It! campaign, believes the cap-and-trade and similar policies to fight global warming will further push the world’s poor into poverty by denying them basic needs such as abundant, affordable energy.

“We face important environmental challenges, but must be cautious of claims that our planet is in peril from speculative dangers like man-made global warming,” wrote Beisner in an e-mail to The Christian Post.
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Groups that have signed the We Get It! declaration include the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Family Research Council, and Concerned Women for America.

Australian Climate Madness: Climate change [fraud] lawyers ready to pounce

"Goldmine" - that says it all! Virtually all corporates of any size will, when the ETS become law, require advice on their obligations under it, which will no doubt be convoluted and labyrinthine. And where do these corporates get the money to pay the lawyers bills? By charging their customers more for their products and services, which, at the end of a very long line, means you and me paying more for our products and services.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Global warming--err, sorry--make that twenty days and twenty nights

What it should mean for all of us is that we have to make sure that the data is being collected properly, being made available to the entire community for examination and evaluation, and that the siege mentality that was the natural reaction to having their theory criticised is replaced by an acknowledgment of the need for an extra pair of eyes on the facts as they are discovered.

This isn't happening. Respected scientists are calling each other names, refusing to release data to the public, and in general acting like third graders. And this at a time when we are debating how to spend $650 billion over the next 10 years on their specialty. It's a recipe for disaster.

Coincidence watch: Markey's Mass. would gain from Markey's climate swindle bill

WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts is poised to receive about $200 million in federal money for energy research and efficiency programs under a sweeping climate change bill to be unveiled Friday, according to one of the measure's chief negotiators.
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"It's terrific,'' said Ian Bowles, Massachusetts secretary of the Executive office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. "We are going to be the disproportionate beneficiary of the transition to a clean energy economy.''

Rant - Global Warming Skepticism Reviewed

A fellow RantRaver and I have dueled, in the verbal sense, on the topic of global warming. The Cypress Gang has been decidedly in the skeptic camp, and I am decidedly in the "it's inevitable" camp. I appreciate the skepticism. I think it is healthy. I am a relatively unabashed skeptic most of the time. I tend to need proof of things. So, I thank Cypress Gang for the opportunity to evaluate and comment on sources he has found which he sees as supporting a case that humans are not the cause of global warming. I hope by evaluating each of these sources he has found, reading them thoroughly, and commenting, I can shed some light on this complex issue.