American Thinker Blog: Climate Change legislation won't reduce emissions

This is not about protecting the planet but about power and money - big surprise, huh? Even the Democrats aren't stupid enough to buy into the idea that we can cut emissions to deal with climate change and not destroy the economy. Even those who are the biggest believers in global warming can't escape reality.

I'm with the environmentalists on this one - not for their reasons but for the simple fact that if Democrats are not going to deal with a problem they claim is the most serious challenge facing planet earth, why bother at all? It appears that this is going to be just one more corporate welfare project that will earn Democratic politicians gobs of money in donations while making energy more expensive for the average American.

[Indian alarmist] Pawan Chamling: School dropout to fourth-term chief minister

Pawan Kumar Chamling, who dropped out of school after Class 5, was Saturday set to become the state's longest-serving chief minister as his Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) swept the assembly polls. This would be the fourth term in power for the man whose aim is to merge the people of his state with mainstream India.
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Declaring Sikkim a totally organic state and an eco-tourism destination as well as the constitution of a committee to fight global warming are some of the feathers in Chamling's cap.

Uganda People News: Journalists to win Climatic Change [Fraud] fellowships

The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has called upon journalists in developing countries who report on climate change to apply for the 2009 Fellowship Programme.

This programme comes during a critical year of negotiations that ends in December with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen where a new global deal could be struck.

According to a press statement, forty journalists will be awarded fellowships which will give them skills training and access to world class experts to enhance their knowledge. The deadline for submission of application is 5th June 2009.