Conrad Black, National Post - Tired lefties on parade

...That over-indulged industry will have to do better than that to deal with the rising tide of doubts about human-caused global warming. Australia and New Zealand have rescinded their carbon-emission legislation. The Polish Academy of Sciences has renounced its previous faith in the Al Gore/ UN conventional wisdom about climate change. Hundreds of scientists have apostacized, including Nobel Prize winner (Physics) Ivar Giaever; the world's first female PhD in meteorology, Dr. Joanne Simpson; and the Japanese environmental chemist Dr. Kimimori Itoh, who participated in the UN climate reports of recent years, but now regards the theory of man-made climate warming as "the worst scientific scandal in history"

The Earth's temperatures generally have not changed in the last eight years; and the polar ice cap, rising oceans, and the health and weather horror stories that have been used to frighten the world into harebrained self-inflicted economic wounds and nostrums have been scientifically debunked. (This includes the aptly named Obama/Pelosi Cap and Trade Bill; if passed into U. S. law in its present form, it will earn its authors dunce caps, and trade economic growth for the national poor house.)

The fact is that the world has almost been railroaded by scammers like Al Gore, he who inflicted famine on millions with his nonsense about the potential of corn as a fuel, which priced it as food beyond the reach of much of the developing world.

Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Delusion is bliss - Full Comment

We’re pleased to see the Ottawa Citizen’s Susan Riley at least concede that President Obama’s bold climate change initiatives might come to naught. Too many of her fellow global warming alarmists—Jeffrey Simpson, come on down—are willing to take other countries’ goals as faits accomplis when they denounce Canada’s obviously poor climate change record. However, having made that concession, it becomes rather more difficult for Riley to argue with certainty that in 25 years Canada will still be a filthy oil-based economy while America’s will run purely on the wind, the sun and the tides. The Globe’s John Ibbitson helpfully explains the political reasons why Obama’s climate change legislation may be defeated in the Senate, or vastly watered down and hugely delayed to avoid such a fate.