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Note, incidentally, that the sole period of warming which the IPCC concludes shows a human influence - that rising carbon dioxide concentration - amounts to just 25 years. Bear that in mind when alarmists tell you that eight years of cooling since is, of course, far too short a period to make any conclusions about climate trends.

Ron Smith - Global warming alarmism enriches Gore, bankrupts the rest of us - baltimoresun.com

Let us begin today with full disclosure: For those who don't know my position on global warming alarmism and its insidious uses, it is that this phenomenon is the greatest hoax in modern times and is being used to achieve things - bad things - quite apart from its ostensible goal of "saving the planet." Al Gore wanders the spheroid he is determined to save, spouting increasingly inane observations as his bank account grows and his "carbon footprint" becomes ever more Godzilla-like, considering all the jet fuel burned as he hurtles from appearance to appearance. I have read that his speaking fee is now $175,000 a pop, a fee for which his audiences are fed what seems to me to be an amazing concoction of lies, distortions and flights of fancy.

Despite Obama's pledge, G-8 makes little headway on global warming - Los Angeles Times

Reflecting the challenge on the home front, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), head of the committee drafting the centerpiece of Obama's climate change legislation, announced that she was pulling back from a promise to act swiftly and would not finish work on a bill until at least September.

I Love CO2: Protest at Al Gores breakfast in Melbourne Mon July 13th

We are inviting all those sceptical that CO2 causes dangerous Global warming to join with us in an Educational protest outside where Al Gore will have a breakfast with 1,000 invited guests starts. The breakfast starts at 7 am at the Docklands Peninsula (just opposite Docklands stadium) on Harbour esplanade. Those wishing to protest that either "Al Gore has got the facts wrong" or "Carbon trading will destroy our economy for no good reason" or "Gore should publicly debate the evidence of CO2 causing dangerous global warming" can assemble at 6.15 am at Southern Cross station at the southern end up stairs next to where it opens straight onto the Collins Street bridge.

European Hot Air - WSJ.com

The economic reality of climate-change policy is sinking in at last.
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 The fraying of the anti-carbon consensus in Western Europe is especially striking.
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Meanwhile, the supposed economic benefits of climate-change amelioration are evaporating. In Germany, government subsidies for installing solar panels -- and, it was presumed, thereby creating domestic manufacturing jobs -- backfired when it turned out that it was cheaper to make solar panels in China. A recent paper by Gabriel Calzada Álvarez, an economics professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, said that since Spain starting investing in "green jobs" policies in 2000, the country has lost 110,500 jobs in other parts of the economy. That amounts to 2.2 jobs lost for every new "green job" created.

This has politicians worried. They might have been willing to sacrifice a few jobs when they signed Kyoto in 1997. But economic times were flush then. Now a global slowdown is forcing a rethink on whether emissions control is worth the cost. With the scientific debate about the causes, effects and solutions of climate change growing more vigorous, that's a question worth asking.
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In other words, Western European leaders are the latest to discover that climate-change talk is cheap, but carbon-emissions regulation is expensive. That might be bad news for green activists, but it's very good news for Europeans worried about their jobs and their economy.