Good News: Senate Climate Bill to Go Nowhere [Chris Horner]

I mean, how could it? This is about warming, right? And not just about getting a long-held wish-list enacted? Because on the warming front, there's only good tidings from Team Watts, who have finished their canvassing of Nevada's surface temperature stations — including Harry Reid's home town of Searchlight, host to one of Nevada's 14 lonely sensors.

We can breathe a sigh of relief that eco-socialism — National Environmentalism, choose the -ism you think best fits — isn't likely to be championed by the pride of that tiny Nevada town, now that its very own data confirms that it is cooler there since George W. Bush took office. And is cooler than when Clinton-Gore took office. Or when Ronald Reagan took office. Or when Reid was a Nevada boxing commissioner (ok, he was the gaming commissioner, but the Burns quote is just too much to pass up) . . .

Don't cut your throat. Just yet

[Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer] said the powers that be grossly underestimate the repercussions of fossil fuel use and the amount of time the human race has to save itself.
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"Global warming is coming at us considerably faster than the publicly acknowledged data and figures and predictions suggest," Dyer said.

As temperatures rise, crops fail, fresh water is depleted, mass migration occurs, international relations break down and wars over land, resources and climate policy become inevitable.