Democrats duel over climate bill - Patrick O'Connor and Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

In the run-up to the meeting, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) argued in several newspaper interviews that the House should move cautiously on a cap-and-trade bill if it doesn’t look like the Senate will approve it. Van Hollen doesn’t want vulnerable House Democrats — especially the freshmen under his care — to be forced to take difficult votes on the measure if it’s not going to pass anyway.

But Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, a 34-year veteran of the House who knocked off his longtime predecessor last fall to push an ambitious climate change bill, took umbrage with Van Hollen’s public stance during Thursday’s leadership meeting, people present said.

Brandishing an issue of that day’s CQ in which Van Hollen laid out the merits of holding off, an agitated Waxman reminded his junior colleague that raising procedural concerns in public didn’t make it any easier for the Energy and Commerce Committee chairman to broker a compromise with the members of his committee — or help him pass an ambitious bill in the House.

FOXNews.com - Google Gets Goats to Mow Lawn at Company Headquarters

Last week, Google brought in a herd of goats to mow the grass on its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters rather than using lawnmowers.

The company said that it wanted to take a more "low-carbon" approach with the goats reducing the company's contribution to air and noise pollution.

The cost of hiring the 200-some goats is about the same price as mowing, but the goats were "a lot cuter to watch."

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Review of the Congressional Budget Office “The Expected Impacts of Climate Change in the United States” by Roger A. Pielke Sr. January 14 2009

This finding conflicts with the statement made earlier in the CBO that “The accumulation of warming substances has tended to dominate, triggering an irregular but accelerating warming of the Earth’s surface and various consequent change”!

This finding is an effort to cover a recently observed observation that global warming has stalled, at least for the present.