Author opens “Pandora’s Locks” for audience at book signing

According to Alexander, “Though science and environmental protection measures are far more advanced than 50 years ago, I believe humans still tinker with natural systems on a regular basis.” He cites global warming as “the most extreme example,” saying, “Despite clear scientific evidence that global warming is real and poses grave economic and environmental consequences if not addressed, a surprising number of people dispute that the problem even exists.”

'Barbecue summer' hopes dashed

"These events and short medium and long range forecasts now active spell failure for the Met Office forecast of a 'barbecue summer' which we advised our own forecast users to ignore. This is the third wet summer for Britain and Ireland in a row where the weather has turned out to be opposite to the Met Office long range prognosis and has instead been in line with our long range forecast. Along with the Met Office spectacular failure to predict the icy & snowy winter of 2008/09 which also confirmed WeatherAction's forecast one has to ask: For how much longer will government, 'opposition' and much of commerce continue to follow failed methodology?

Cooler Heads Digest 17 July 2009 | Myron Ebell

Energy-rationing legislation has been moved to the back burner by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the Obama Administration. The Senate and the House are now concentrating on moving health care “reform” legislation as quickly as they can. The announced goal of having a health care bill passed by the Senate and maybe even the House before the August recess is clearly out of reach, which means that both chambers will still be working on health care in September as well as trying to finish work on various appropriations bills. Reid has told the chairmen of the committees of jurisdiction that they should have their pieces of comprehensive energy-rationing legislation ready by 28th September. That doesn’t mean that Reid will bring the bill to the floor in October, but rather that he will then be ready to bring it to the floor if and when sixty votes in favor can be assembled.

This slippage in the schedule is due I think mostly to the public reaction to passage of the Waxman-Markey bill in the House. The House Democratic leadership had to rush the bill to the House floor and pass it before people could find out what’s in it. But word started to get out quite quickly. I have heard several reports that quite a few Members who voted for Waxman-Markey were given hostile receptions by voters in their districts over the Fourth of July recess. A few at least are being hammered. Senators naturally hear about how voters are reacting in their States, and so it’s not surprising that several Senators are sounding less supportive of cap-and-trade than they did in June 2008 when they voted for the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill.
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It’s much too early to conclude that cap-and-trade is dead in the water, but it looks to be swimming against a fairly strong current.