No rush on global warming -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Is it really the "Time to fight global warming," as suggested by a recent letter? If there has been no significant increase in global mean surface temperatures since 1997, what's the rush?

Shouldn't we try to figure out why the current cooling, even though carbon dioxide levels have increased? Could it be that solar activity determines whether we have warming or cooling?

Higher CO2 levels are actually beneficial, causing better crop yields, so maybe we should not reduce carbon emissions.

Russ Stabley, Fort Lauderdale

Carmel Citizen named 'Climate Change Advocate of the Year' | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

"We recognize Leslie for her untiring efforts to raise awareness about the extraordinary challenge of global warming, especially in the midst of a segment of our society appearing to dismiss the science underlying man-made climate change," said Jesse Kharbanda, Executive Director of the Hoosier Environmental Council.

Blowing Smoke on State Climate Action Plans

Many states have adopted Climate Action Plans (CAPs) that limit greenhouse gases by 2020, and nearly identical plans are advancing rapidly toward approval in other states.
But according to a peer-reviewed study of the Maryland CAP by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University in Massachusetts - an economics think tank - these cookie-cutter proposals are “seriously flawed” for multiple reasons. If implemented, the plans could take other states down the same road California is already traveling. Anti-business policies that were often justified mainly on environmental grounds, have cost Californians dearly. Millions of jobs fled to lower tax neighbors like Nevada and Arizona, the state’s 8.4 percent unemployment rate rivals Michigan’s, and political gridlock over a $40 billion budget deficit could leave California bankrupt early in 2009. [Via The Chilling Effect]