NBC’s 'Today' Warns of Doom-and-Gloom Icecap Melt Catastrophes | NewsBusters.org

At a time when Americans increasingly aren't buying into the theory of anthropogenic global warming according to a recent Rasmussen poll, NBC and its cable news network MSNBC are bringing out the big guns to slow the rise of that mentality down.

On NBC's April 26 "Today," anchor Lester Holt previewed his special "Future Earth: Journey to the End of the World," slated to appear on MSNBC on the night of April 26. According to the preview shown by Holt, the TV special is remarkably similar to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," forecasting several doom-and-gloom scenarios.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Global waming can make your head explode

If this is the level of education people have about climate change, we won't need to wait for global warming to kill us off. Our heads will explode from the stupidity of general discourse:

“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap..”

This is not a third-grader reacting to too much Ritalin. It is Congressman Henry Waxman of California. This is the man who is now horsetrading exemptions to the Cap and Trade Act being considered by Congress.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Time to get it right

It would appear that over the past year the arguments of skeptics have gathered force. More scientists have expressed skepticism, to the point where exchanges of lists on both sides seem to have equal weight. But I think it is time we skeptics argue for a positive policy outcome.

I believe that we should make the case that at the very least, we have time to do the science right. Temperatures have plateaued over the past decade, and the impacts of sunspots and volcanic activity are likely to dampen any tendency for temperatures to rise for a few years. This offers us enough time to get the science right and to prepare a course of action that makes sense for us regardless of who's right on this subject.

Lord Mandelson has set up rival 'energy and climate change unit' | Business | guardian.co.uk

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has launched a section to "help create the conditions for UK business success through key energy and climate change policies".
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Lord Mandelson has set up an "energy and climate change unit" to lobby Ed Miliband's new energy and climate change department on behalf of business. Energy insiders said the move was further evidence of the peer encroaching on Ed Miliband's brief in a bid to water down green policies which may damage business.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Liberals can be skeptics too

Climate change has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to state one's position simply--but I will try and do so here. Climate change catastrophists classify those who disagree with their position as 'deniers,' Republicans in bed with big oil, etc. Well, there's at least one exception.