Global warming still looks like a scam to some - www.record-bee.com

I stand by my belief that the Sun (and solar activity) is the major influence on our temperature swings, possibly followed by major volcanic activity. Man's contribution remains insignificant. In fact, the Earth has gone through 75 major temperature swings in the last 4500 years swinging from very warm to ice ages that will wipe out life as we know it. Man was not steering this course. Search the Internet and one will learn that hundreds of respected scientists with verifiable credentials consider human induced global warming to be the scam of our time. My conclusion remains valid, our elected officials should not be spending our money on such a fool's game.

Ed Calkins

Climate change: Melting credibility - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial

Remember how mankind's abuse of fossil fuels was going to cause the North Pole's ice cap to melt completely in 2008?

Remember how the beloved polar bear was in danger of soon becoming extinct because there was too little sea ice from which bears could hunt their favorite dinners of ringed seal pups?

It turns out that both of these global warming scare stories were as full of it as Al Gore's Oscar-winning docu-comedy "An Inconvenient Truth."
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Unfortunately, this scientific "surprise" will never get the attention -- or critical analytical spin -- it deserves from the green mainstream media. Nor will the good news about the long-term fortunes of the "imperiled" polar bear be heard by those who need it most -- the nation's brainwashed and unduly alarmed kindergartners.

But with the sea ice's dramatic return, there's no denying that the climate change industry has lost another million square kilometers of its melting credibility.

Oil giant comes in from the cold - Americas, World - The Independent

But Greenpeace – which has waged a multi-decade war against Exxon, its denial of man-made climate change and its secret funding of renegade scientists – warned Mr Tillerson's intervention was a smokescreen for its attempt to slow down the switch to alternative fuels. "A carbon tax is a political poison pill," said Kert Davies, a research director at Greenpeace. "No politician in the US would propose something with the word tax in it. Being in favour of something makes Exxon look like it is being intellectual, but this threatens to derail the prevailing international discussion."
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Yesterday, Greenpeace challenged ExxonMobil to come up with a detailed proposal for a carbon tax high enough to significantly reduce demand for its products.