Global Warming Satellite Records Highest Atmospheric Temps Ever! « The Constitution Club

It may not have been aloft for long, but NASA’S “Carbon Observatory” has done its job! It recorded the highest atmospheric temperatures ever - over six thousand degrees - before crashing to earth.

More from alleged eco-hero Richard Branson: Would his new fossil-fueled auto racing team also carry instruments to measure climate change?

Critics claim the flights will be “fossil fuel-burning space tourism flights” but Branson has promised the crafts will carry scientific instruments for gathering new data on climate change.

With Virgin also being heavily linked to buying the Honda Formula 1 team, Virgin is walking a fine line in convincing the public of its green credentials.

Peter Foster: America needs China - Full Comment

Both the Obama administration and that of Stephen Harper have declared that China must participate in any successor to the disastrous Kyoto Accord. This provision may have been made with full knowledge that China would never comply. It thus provides a great excuse for the collapse of negotiations at the forthcoming mega-meeting in Copenhagen (which will inevitably be spun as indicating the urgent need for more and bigger meetings).

EurActiv.com - EU signals end of ‘free lunches’ on climate finance

China and India must play their full part in fighting climate change and accept that programmes financed by the West to modernise their industries will only come in return for making genuine efforts at home, warns the EU's chief climate negotiator in an interview with EurActiv.
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Western countries, he argued, should request the most advanced developing nations to make commitments in exchange for much-needed technologies such as carbon capture and storage. "Of course, if there is a free lunch, why should you not ask for three or four free lunches?," asked the EU official.

OBAMA’S BUDGET GAMBLE: COUNTING CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH

The budget's assumption of money from a revenue stream that does not yet exist provides a concrete indication that Mr. Obama expects a cap-and-trade system to be in place soon although Congress still must shape, write, debate and decide on a timetable for legislation that likely will be divisive even among Democrats.

"As someone who is very involved in the legislative debates on this, it's just very premature to be having any number like that," said Jeff Holmstead, Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator during the Bush administration.

THE AUSTRALIAN: IT'S FOLLY TO ENACT UNILATERAL CAP-AND-TRADE

BY committing Australia to a carbon trading scheme before the Copenhagen conference on climate change in December, the Government is setting its strategy in stone without knowing what the rest of the world will do. This does not bother Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, who is adamant her carbon pollution reduction scheme will go ahead and that anybody who wants to argue is either a job destroyer or a climate change sceptic.

YOUR PROBLEM NOW: OBAMA SHIFTS CLIMATE BILL BURDEN ONTO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON (AFP) — President Barack Obama urged Congress to draft legislation setting market-based caps on the emissions of carbon gases in a landmark move in the United States to combat global warming.

[Via Benny Peiser]