President Obama’s First News Conference

Harshest Assessment By Cable Pundits of White House Press’s Performance: Bill O’Reilly and Bob Morris on Fox News:

O’REILLY: What struck me about this was it wasn’t a press conference. It wasn’t. It was tee it up, ok and he had the little list of questioners. If O’Reilly or Morris were there, trust me, he wouldn’t have gotten to us. And then he does ten, twelve minutes ruminating, and I want information. Look, I would have said, “Hey, Mr. President, you’ve got Nancy Pelosi loading this up with all kinds of global warming stuff. What was that all about?” How about that for a question?

MORRIS: He had ridiculous questions.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Four decades after first Surgeon General warning, Virginia House approves ban on smoking

So perhaps we have another decade or two before we get the same strong cultural reaction and serious political action on carbon dioxide emissions.

That doesn’t mean I don’t think we will get a cap and trade bill next year — I do. But such a bill, especially if it is watered down with rip-offsets, will only be the beginning of a journey that ultimately ends in either much stronger domestic (and international) action or a 1,000-year catastrophe.

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Current Ocean Temperature Distribution Points To La Niña Conditions

The large area of significant cold anomalies illustrates why we have not seen recent warming in the upper ocean, as discussed yesterday on Climate Science...