[Another extremely dubious/misleading claim from] Nasa | Mail Online

Using NASA's ICESat spacecraft, scientists calculated that overall Arctic sea ice thinned about seven inches a year since 2004, for a total of 2.2 feet over four winters.

Chemical industry sells out America? « Green Hell Blog

American Chemistry Council head Cal Dooley has been tasked to appease the Senate climate gods by suggesting that the Waxman-Markey greenhouse gas emission reduction schedule be scaled back from 17% by 2020 to 14% by 2020, reports Carbon Control News (July 9). In return for that concession and more free emissions credits, the chemical industry is apparently willing to sell the rest of us down the river.

Study: Media and environmental doomsday – like peas and carrots « Watts Up With That?

In TV there’s been this saying forever: “if it bleeds it leads” referring to what story would be the lead story in the TV newscast. It stands to reason then that “environmental catastrophe” would get more airplay and print. This study confirms what I’ve known for a very long time – chaos sells newspapers and makes ratings. Except…now people are getting saturated. AGW has become the O.J. Simpson story of our time, it has worn out its welcome. – Anthony

Warming debate simmers as Obama poses in Europe | NewsOK.com

It gives a "ready, fire, aim” quality to the Italy summit and the Obama Team’s push to use taxes to force U.S. emissions reductions — best illustrated by the treatment of Environmental Protection Agency analyst Alan Carlin, who earlier this year wrote a report questioning the science underlying climate policy objectives. Carlin was told to be quiet and go away.

It’s a foolish and potentially dangerous approach. The science isn’t settled, and an emerging Senate majority is right to oppose cap and trade.

The administration better listen. Otherwise, it’s going to have a bigger problem than a bunch of kooks with a banner running rings around the rangers at Mount Rushmore.

The Coming Carbon Bubble: Beware the hidden dangers of a cap-and-trade system. | The Big Money

Beware the hidden dangers of a cap-and-trade system.
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Remember the nasty real estate meltdown? All those investors snapping up CDOs and CDSs and other acronyms nobody could really keep straight, but no one cared because we were all going to make a killing. And then the bottom dropped out of the market when somebody realized we had no idea what any of these exotic entities were actually worth but we started to worry that it might not be nearly as much as what we'd been told. So then the government had to come along and give the banks a ton of money and we're all OK now as long as you don't look at the national debt or foreclosure rate or a host of other, still-dismal numbers.

Well, it's good to see we've learned our lesson. We'll never get carried away like that again! Except that we might. If you thought the real estate mess was bad, fasten your seat belts and tuck all personal belongings inside the car because the carbon market is set to take off.

The [Alleged] Climate Ship Has [Allegedly] Sailed

Whether or not you believe the large and growing body of scientific evidence that humans are causing climate change, it has become a political and economic reality that every responsible person and organization must prepare for. Just ask big coal.

I have just returned from an international climate change solutions conference, held in Bismarck, ND no less.