Financial crisis no excuse to slow carbon [scam]

EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas echoed Carlgren's views, saying the crisis was "no reason to slow down" but more of an "opportunity for decisive action."

Dimas said moving towards low-carbon economy would allow the 27-member bloc to take advantage of "the fast-growing markets for environment technologies, services and products."

"We would also increase the security of our energy supplies," he said.

Global warming skeptic: 'People adapt'

Staccato-voiced scholar and global warming skeptic Dr. Pat Michaels feasts off the hyperbole of Al Gore, and delights in debunking the United Nations' Nobel Prize-sharing Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Michaels' bottom line: "Global warming extremism" has ratcheted a nation's anxiety level to extremes, while warming of the earth stopped in 1997 and has "not declared itself since."

"We live in a world where the wildest, craziest things are said about climate change," he told a Thursday conference entitled "How Do You See Our Climate's Future?" put on by the right-thinking Washington Policy Center.

Judges lay out challenges of climate [fraud] legislation - MontereyHerald.com :

If David Bookbinder, the Sierra Club's top lawyer, believed the Waxman-Markey bill making its way through Congress was going to become law, he would be losing a lot of sleep.

"But let me tell you, I've been sleeping 10 hours a night since I got here," Bookbinder quipped Thursday at the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Conference in Monterey.

He and four lawyers discussed a slew of possible law enforcement aspects of climate change legislation at the annual gathering of federal judges and court officials from the Western United States.

"This is the most complex piece of legislation in the history of our country, which may make it the most complex piece of legislation in human history," Bookbinder said.

Kerry threatens war over climate change

So why is the rhetoric at fever pitch regarding global warming anyway? Because it’s rapidly losing intellectual purchase, and if Kerry and his ilk can’t use this threat to control our economy then they’ll have to spend some time dreaming up the next boogeyman.