Alarmist Jeffrey Frankel offers an allegedly practical solution for the climate hoax

A total impasse. Or is it? I see one — and only one – practical solution to this apparent Catch-22: The United States agrees to binding emission cuts — something like those in the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House of Representatives on June 26; simultaneously, China, India, and other developing countries agree to a path that immediately imposes on them binding emission targets — but targets that in their early years simply follow the so-called Business-as-Usual (BAU) path. BAU is defined as the rate of increase in emissions that these countries would experience in the absence of an international agreement, as determined by experts’ projections.

The idea of developing countries committing only to BAU targets would provoke outrage from both environmentalists and US business interests, because it does not obligate these countries to cut emissions. But both of those groups should realize that this commitment would be far more important than it sounds. It would preclude the carbon leakage which, absent such an agreement, would undermine the environmental goal. It would mitigate the competitiveness concerns of carbon-intensive industries in the rich countries.

Yeah, right: "USDA: Farmers to profit from climate [fraud] bill" | Top AP Stories

WASHINGTON — Farmers stand to make more money than they will lose if Congress enacts legislation to limit the gases blamed for global warming, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Agriculture Department.

The study, the first to look specifically at the bill's toll on the agricultural sector, shows that higher energy prices will cut into farmers' bottom lines in both the short and long term. But the projected 1 to 7.2 percent loss in income is far outweighed by the tens of billions of dollars farmers are expected to rake in for projects to reduce greenhouse gases.

How do you stop San Francisco Bay from flooding the city? Hold a contest : Scientific American Blog

To help get the ball rolling on local solutions to the global problem, the commission partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to create the Rising Tide contest, which brought in 131 bright ideas from around the world for how to hold off the coming high tides (short of stopping glacial melt).

Global warming is all in the timescales

So when people talk about the dramatic temperature rises of the past 30 years, it's useful to remember that it's happened before, that we're still within the normal band of temperatures we've seen for the past ten thousand years, and that past changes in CO2 levels do not seem to match temperature swings.