Waxman buys time with pledge to produce climate [swindle] bill next week - NYTimes.com

"I think it's the wrong time for a cap and trade," said Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), the co-chairman of the centrist House New Democrat Coalition. "I think health care is achievable. It's doable. And when I move around my district, and my state, and people ask me what is Congress going to do to fix health care. They don't frankly ask me what Congress is going to do to fix climate change."

Davis, who is running for governor in 2010, said he could count on about 40 to 50 House Democrats who would vote against the climate proposal despite President Obama's request earlier this week to push ahead on the issue.

"It's not my role to stop anybody," Davis said. "I'm just saying there's a significant body of members who are not going to vote for a cap-and-trade regime. And you can dress it up in a lot of different ways, but if it's still a cap-and-trade regime at the end of the day, it's still going to be hard to sell to a lot of members."

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: If global warming is catastrophic, why do Greens act the way they do?

A certain subset of environmental advocates claim that global warming will produce a catastrophe on this planet. And yet they oppose measures that would help, and they don't act as if that were the case when it comes to personal decisions in their life.

If global warming is going to destroy human civilization, why does the movement's self-appointed spokesperson, Al Gore, use so much energy in his personal life? If the seas are going to rise 20 somethings (sometimes he says feet, sometimes meters), why did he buy oceanfront property here in San Francisco?

If global warming is such a dire threat, why do activists convene in such remote locations to discuss it, guaranteeing the expenditure of a large amount of fuel and the creation of very large amounts of CO2? Why not teleconference?

BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: theory that Atlantic Ocean is warming due to climate change laid to rest

The North Atlantic is hotting up fast but it's not because of climate change, say scientists in the most recent edition of the journal Science. No, it's because there's less dust around to keep the water cool.

Over the past 30 years, the North Atlantic has been warming up at a rate of a quarter of a degree Celsius per decade. (That's pretty fast for a tropical ocean basin, apparently.)

Like the left-handed man in a Sherlock Holmes novel who limps, smokes Indian cigars and carries a blunt pen-knife in his pocket, suspicion immediately fell upon climate change. But the real culprit, it now emerges, is a drop in the amount of dust and sulphate in the skies above the Atlantic.

Desperate Demographic Drill-Down - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Might I suggest a strategy on how to reach out to this new, key demographic? Dust off and update an old favorite: "World to End: Asian-Americans to Be Hardest Hit."