The Washington Independent » GOPers Flip on ‘Cap and Trade’

Gregg’s reaction could signal a broad, if quiet, Republican retreat from the cap and trade concept. Less than a year ago Gregg backed the cap and trade concept...
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Obama’s plan also failed to get any support from Corker of Tennessee, another Republican who previously expressed support for the cap and trade concept.

Aging Satellites Threaten Climate Research Future : NPR

Wielicki says NOAA's top priorities have been fisheries and weather. NASA has focused on putting people in space and doing space science, not earth science.

"So you end up with two agencies, who are the primary climate agencies, having climate as the third priority," Wielicki says. "So how are you going to get climate done? And the answer is, you're not."

The Reference Frame: Klaus: Notes from a U.S. trip

Despite the long hours, one can't see much from the window. There is only one dominant thing that is so huge that it cannot be overlooked. It is nothing else than Greenland, a "green land" which is however, even in the era of the purported global warming, an empty white wasteland of ice and snow. That's a different situation than in the Medieval Warm Period, between the 10th and 14th century, when agricultural soil was being tilled at many places of the island. In those old times, people were not emitting much CO2 into the air. One could dare to think that other factors than CO2 were influencing the global temperature. But I am going to attend a global warming conference, so I should perhaps avoid blasphemies in advance.