Climate-change alarmism runs into a reality check | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

The new century has cooled the case for climate alarmism. Global warming has stalled — not accelerated as expected. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere have increased, but temperatures have been flat for the last eight years and have slightly fallen since 1998's El Nino-driven temperature spike.

If the cool-off continues until 2015, as could be the case according to a study published in Nature magazine, we will have had a see-saw of global warming (1900-45), global cooling (1945-75), global warming (1975-98), and flatness (1998-2015).
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The retreating climate scare has direct policy implications for the new Congress and the Obama administration. The federal deficit should not be swelled by quixotic "green jobs" — public-works programs justified as a "climate policy." Wind and solar power are the least efficient energies and translate into more cost and less reliability for energy users. Rationing carbon dioxide via a cap-and-trade program is all pain and no gain.

Peter Foster: Climate rains on Aussie drought - Full Comment

Tim Flannery’s apocalyptic global warming projections have proved way off
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There are signs that some climate change skepticism — or at least greater objectivity — is at last stirring within the CBC, although the corporation still has a long way to go.

globeandmail.com: Obama's energy quick fix bound for the slag heap

"Energy systems are inherently inertial," Prof. Smil said. "Energy transitions take decades to accomplish. Anyone who expects Mr. Obama to transform the world will be disappointed [and] the degree of disappointment that must follow such naiveté will be phenomenal."
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"And now Al Gore is telling us," Prof. Smil says, "that the United States can completely repower its electricity generation in a single decade ... can produce 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable, carbon-free sources within 10 years." He does the math to show that such a transition would cost more than $4-trillion (U.S.) - and would still fail. It is physically impossible, he says, to do six decades of rebuilding in 10 years. Such romanticism, he says, is delusional: "None of the promises for greatly accelerated energy transitions will be kept."