The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » Sen. Joe Biden Gets The Coal-ed Shoulder

The [Wall Street Journal] editorial concludes with this thought: “That an eminence like Mr. Biden is clueless about coal suggests how little official Washington has thought through the consequences of its anticarbon agenda.”

Amen.

Bush speech to U.N.: “terror” 32, “climate” 0 | Blogs | Reuters.com

U.S. President George W. Bush upset some delegates by failing to mention “climate change” or “global warming” in his final speech to the United Nations — in which he referred to terrorism 32 times.

Exactly a year ago, the United Nations held a special summit about climate change – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls fighting global warming his “signature issue” and many governments see it as the biggest long-term challenge.