Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Stop the presses! (Stop the servers?) Nancy Sutley: Obama to stake political prestige on passing US climate bill

Barack Obama is prepared to stake his own political prestige on getting climate change legislation through Congress, and would be willing to intervene directly to ensure passage of America’s first law to reduce the carbon emissions that cause global warming.

Nancy Sutley, who is pivotal in setting Obama’s green agenda as the chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, told the Guardian that the president is ready to use his considerable personal popularity to rally Congress behind a sweeping climate change bill.

If it’s true, this is the story of the month, from the UK Guardian (audio interview of the reporter is here).

Breaking: Rangel agrees to June 19 deadline for climate [fraud] bill from House Ways and Means, Ag Chair Peterson says “We’re not trying to stop this bill.”

Chairman Charles Rangel of the House Ways and Means Committee said he learned today that his panel has a deadline of June 19 to complete its version of the cap-and-trade bill now pending in the House.

The New York Democrat told reporters, “We’re going to make it” — referring to the deadline, which he said he was informed about by his staff. The staff apparently had gotten word of the deadline from the House Democratic leadership….

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Short Circuiting The Scientific Process - A Serious Problem In The Climate Science Community

What the current publication process has evolved into, at the detriment of proper scientific investigation, are the publication of untested (and often untestable) hypotheses. The fourth step in the scientific method “Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment” is bypassed.

This is a main reason that the policy community is being significantly misinformed about the actual status of our understanding of the climate system and the role of humans within it.