US Congress told 'climate change is not real' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The United States Congress has been told to ignore President Barack Obama's plan to place limits on carbon emissions because climate change does not exist.

"The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing," said British aristocrat Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, a leading proponent of the 'climate change is myth' movement.

The Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - who was an adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher - argued before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee that for 14 years "there has been no statistically significant global warming."

The House hearing - titled Adaptation Policies in Climate Legislation - discussed ways to address Mr Obama's cap-and-trade proposal in his $US 3.6 trillion ($5.1 trillion) budget plan, presented to Congress in February.

Rudd gives emissions trading advice in US - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

As the United States debates an emissions trading scheme, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has talked to America's Senate leaders about Australia's experience.

Australia is further along the road in developing an emissions trading scheme than the Obama administration, and Mr Rudd has discussed with the US Senate leadership the complexity involved in designing such a scheme.

Did alarmist Katey Walter really see a lot of melting in Siberia "a few weeks ago"? - 25 March 2009 - New Scientist

I AM shocked, truly shocked," says Katey Walter, an ecologist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. "I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them."

Budget reconciliation talk for climate bill refuses to die - NYTimes.com

"I think frankly at this point it may be very difficult for us to pass a serious global warming bill if we need 60 votes, that's the bottom line," Sanders told E&E. "Because by the time you've got to that 60th vote, I'm afraid the bill has been watered down to a degree that it may not be able to address the very serious crisis that we have today."