More stray cats around resort | Otago Daily Times Online

Cold weather is forcing more hungry and diseased, abandoned cats into the heart of Queenstown, in search of food.

C3: Is Global Warming Happening? Four Different Temperature Perspectives

The above charts show very little recent temperature change. But what about the long term? The below chart depicts average temperatures since 1895 through 2008. Despite growth of human CO2 emissions, average U.S. temperatures of 2008 differ very little from temperatures experienced in the early 1900's.

American Thinker Blog: Global Something

How do we know the globe is warming? Because glaciers are melting, silly.
Well recently, we found that glaciers have been shrinking for the last 700 to 6500 years , depending on where you look. I don't know about you, but I wasn't driving a car, cutting a lawn, barbequing, or even breathing that long ago. It wasn't my fault.

But apparently, not all glaciers are shrinking now. Discovery reports on a group of 230 glaciers that are growing, and have been for three decades.

Wrangling threatens Waxman’s cap-and-trade [scam] timetable

Waxman is trying to achieve a balance between auctioning and free distribution to secure support for the bill from moderate Democrats, but that has triggered accusations of vote buying by other members of the committee.

“That is not going to sell very well with the public,” said Garth Van Meter, deputy chief of staff for Representative Bob Inglis, who is circulating a proposal for a carbon tax.

Meanwhile, members of the House Ways and Means committee, which handles tax issues, want to maximise revenues from a federal programme, which means auctioning all allowances to pay for certain tax credits, Mashburn said.

Peterson cries foul on EPA ethanol proposal, vows not to support climate change bill | News | Breaking News | Feedstuffs

House Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson (D., Minn.) sent a message to the Obama Administration today not to count on his support for climate change legislation.

"I'm off the train," Peterson said May 6 during a strongly worded statement at a hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's new proposal for assessing indirect effects of ethanol production on greenhouse gas emissions. Peterson predicted that the EPA proposal, combined with the climate change legislation under consideration, could "kill off corn ethanol."

Peterson said, "I will not support any kind of climate change bill -- even if you fix this -- because I don't trust anybody anymore. I've had it."

Peterson said his position was not negotiable. "I don't have any confidence. The only way I would consider supporting any climate change legislation would be if it was ironclad that these agencies had no ability to do any rulemaking of any kind whatsoever ... (that) we could be absolutely guaranteed that these folks would not get involved," he said.

Following his statement at the hearing, Peterson told reporters he had notified both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Cal.) and the White House of his position.