Al Fin: Arctic Warming? From Black Soot, Not CO2

Most of this soot comes from China. Since China has built a huge new coal plant every 10 days over the past year or so, there is no sign of slowing down for Chinese soot production. CO2, on the other hand, is a negligible contributor to arctic warming. Between soot and natural weather cycles, roughly 90% of arctic warming can be explained. CO2 may be responsible for under 5% of warming.

The World's Most Daaaangerous Band . . . of Skeptics - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So it seems that Late Night with David Letterman is looking for climate skeptics to have some editing fun with...As I noted to the producer in an email, we must really be getting under someone's skin to finally warrant A-list efforts at mockery...

Senate votes to kill cap-and-trade? | GlobalWarming.org

Nonetheless, the Thune amendment shows the path to victory. Cap-and-traders fear public retribution over high electricity and gasoline prices more than they fear the alleged horrors of global warming. Our task is obvious–keep calling cap-and-trade an energy tax, because that is what it is.

The inverted ideology of Earth Hour

Can you think of one part of your life that is not sustained by the use of energy, in particular the ingenious use of fuels like oil and coal? Earth Hour participants may enjoy an hour in the dark, though they will likely burn candles and battery power, safely knowing the life-saving benefits of industrial civilization are just a light switch away. If the draconian carbon-reduction policies that climate activists are demanding were actually implemented we would be trying to survive while shivering in the dark without heating, electricity, refrigeration; without power plants or generators; without any of the labour-saving, time-saving, and therefore life-saving products that industrial energy makes possible. Billions would die.

Bravo, Rosanna Pulido: Global warming is a "hoax"

IL-5 GOP candidate Rosanna Pulido's comments regarding global warming and immigration on the April 1, 2009 edition of WTTW's Chicago Tonight.