The Letterman/McCain braintrust weighs in

David Letterman and McCain Discuss Global Warming

Lack of breakthrough at climate summit does not worry India (Second Lead)

The world’s top green superstar Al Gore spoke to the delegates on the closing day of the summit with his usual passion, but appeared resigned that there would be no concrete outcome at the Poznan summit.

He asked the delegates to ensure that a new treaty to combat global warming was in place by the end of next year.

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer had already dampened expectation from this summit by saying: “This is a blue-collar conference, about getting a job done and not about a spectacle or a breakthrough. It has agreed on the agenda for negotiations in the coming year”.

In other words, they would keep talking.

EDITORIAL: Wrong Plan at Wrong Time: ARB Global Warming Plan Costly, Unnecessary

Not only are these government intrusions onerous and costly, they are unlikely to have any effect on temperatures, which aren't rising even though greenhouse gas emissions are. The ARB, which can't even persuade its own hired consultants, ought at least to have gone back to the drawing board before gambling with California's economic well-being.

Al Gore, New Orleans Snow, Obama and Global Cooling

Instead, Al Gore, Barack Obama, the United Nations and Hollywood are pointing to global warming as the crisis of the century. They should refrain from hysterical rhetoric and try to focus on what is really happening in places like New Orleans. In the Crescent City, snow is not seen very often, it has appeared only eight times since 1947. It was a rare event to say the least, almost as rare as Al Gore and his global warming fanatics actually making sense.