Miles to Go Before Alarmism Sleeps - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

While the lure of ratings surely retains its currency, in recent years we have seen the express abandonment of objectivity — so as to even coin the phrase “balance is bias” for the specific climate context — and yet one more manifestation of the media being a self-selecting universe where certain types now go to make a difference — that is, to be an activist, to promote change. And the global-warming agenda is the kind of change they can believe in. I submit that there will be many more Miles to go before they finally put their global warming alarmism to sleep.

A sagging global economy and a shift in public opinion make next year’s international climate treaty less likely

Further mitigating the prospect of an Obama bounce, new data on global temperatures is raising significant questions as to whether climate change is manmade. For the past decade, the Earth’s warming trend has ceased, despite steady increases in global carbon dioxide emissions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s temperature peaked in 1998 and has shown marked cooling over the past three years. That reality combined with the dangers of hamstringing industry amid a sagging global economy could be enough to cool climate alarmism well past next December’s deadline.