Nancy Pelosi: Climate change [fraud] game-changer for China relations

I believe that two priorities of my service in Congress - protecting the environment and promoting human rights - are coming together in addressing the challenge of the global climate crisis.

The crisis can be a game-changer in the U.S.-China relationship; it is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. Our governments will have to make difficult decisions that must be based in science. The challenge of the global climate crisis must be met with openness, transparency, respect for the rule of law, and the government must be accountable to the people. The principle of environmental justice must be upheld, especially when poor people are more adversely affected by drastic environmental changes than others.

RealClimate fraudster Gavin Schmidt doesn't sound happy

Alert readers will have noticed the fewer-than-normal postings over the last couple of weeks. This is related mostly to pressures associated with real work (remember that we do have day jobs). In my case, it is because of the preparations for the next IPCC assessment and the need for our group to have a functioning and reasonably realistic climate model with which to start the new round of simulations. These all need to be up and running very quickly if we are going to make the early 2010 deadlines.
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However there is still cause to engage - not out of the hope that the people who make idiotic statements can be educated - but because bystanders deserve to know where better information can be found. Still, it can sometimes be hard to find the enthusiasm. A case in point is a 100+ comment thread criticising my recent book in which it was clear that not a single critic had read a word of it (you can find the thread easily enough if you need to - it's too stupid to link to). Not only had no-one read it, none of the commenters even seemed to think they needed to - most found it easier to imagine what was contained within and criticise that instead. It is vaguely amusing in a somewhat uncomfortable way.

Oh, the inanity: If you pay for a bicycle rickshaw ride, will that really improve the world's weather?

As countries around the world mark World Environment Day Friday, members of the U.S. Congress are preparing to debate new legislation aimed to slow global warming. From Washington, VOA's Kate Woodsome examines how actions in the United States may influence the international debate on combating climate change.

Blocks from the U.S. Capitol building, John Mulqueen navigates a bicycle rickshaw through the traffic on a rainy Washington street.

Mulqueen is one of many drivers in a growing fleet of bicycle taxis that carry tourists, and sometimes business people, around the capital. He says his customers enjoy the open-air ride, and feel good they are not polluting. "There are definitely people you get who are doing it because they don't want to take a car, or they want to take it because it's eco-friendly," Mulqueen observed.