Spring snow slams Denver - The Denver Post

Moderate to heavy snow was falling in downtown Denver and the western and southern suburbs this morning as a late spring storm moved through the Front Range.

Areas of Lakewood, Highlands Ranch and Golden had seen accumulations of 3 to 4 inches.

Al Gore makes a lot of money off of global warming. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

Now, I’m not an innocent here: there’s going to be money in “going Green.” A lot of money: it’s the latest fad, on a scale comparable to the tulip craze of a few centuries ago. But we crested this wave a year or so back, and if it’s all the same to everybody else I’d personally prefer that we not further enrich a bunch of cynical fearmongers quite so much before the eventual crash. If for no other reason than because we’re actually in a problematical economic state right now, and I don’t think that it’s a good idea to pursue policies that will result in more people having anxiety about whether the light and/or heat will come on when they flip the switch.

I mean, we’re not all in Al Gore’s shoes, here. He’s protected for anything less than complete societal breakdown. The rest of us aren’t that lucky.

Bjorn Lomborg - Don’t Waste Time Cutting Emissions - NYTimes.com

WE are often told that tackling global warming should be the defining task of our age — that we must cut emissions immediately and drastically. But people are not buying the idea that, unless we act, the planet is doomed. Several recent polls have revealed Americans’ growing skepticism. Solving global warming has become their lowest policy priority, according to a new Pew survey.

Moreover, strategies to reduce carbon have failed. Meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, politicians from wealthy countries promised to cut emissions by 2000, but did no such thing. In Kyoto in 1997, leaders promised even stricter reductions by 2010, yet emissions have kept increasing unabated. Still, the leaders plan to meet in Copenhagen this December to agree to even more of the same — drastic reductions in emissions that no one will live up to. Another decade will be wasted.
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No green energy source is inexpensive enough to replace coal now. Given substantially more research, however, green energy could be cheaper than fossil fuels by mid-century.

Sadly, the old-style agreement planned for Copenhagen this December will have a negligible effect on temperatures. This renders meaningless any declarations of “success” that might be made after the conference. We must challenge the orthodoxy of Kyoto and create a smarter, more realistic strategy.