From California (Where Else?) - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yet all proposed schemes are all pain, no gain. It seems hard to believe that Sen. Feinstein has not been informed that no one claims that Waxman-Markey would, under any set of assumptions, qualify as "climate action" — whether we act "now" or otherwise. Heck, her fellow Dems — ranging from centrist-ish Evan Bayh (in his constituent mail) to fellow traveler John Kerry, in his recent editorial — admit that anything we do is "all for naught" considering that India, China, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia and other major emitters are telling us to go pound sand.

California is welcome to and deserves all of the Moonbattery it can vote for. But stop imposing your policies on the rest of us.

Oregon Eases Ethanol Requirements - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Gas stations across Oregon will now be allowed to sell premium gasoline not blended with ethanol, in accordance with a bill signed into law last week by Gov. Ted Kulongoski.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: NOAA Explains the Global Temperature "Slowdown"

Kudos to NOAA for being among the first to explicitly state what sort of observation would be inconsistent with model predictions -- 15 years of no warming.

World Will Warm Faster Than Predicted In Next 5 Years? | QandO

I’m an AGW skeptic. And this study does nothing to change that. In fact, it reinforces what the Australians did. The globe my very well warm in the next 5 years. But I still am not seeing anything that definitively links that to man. I’m seeing a lot that links it to nature though.