[Stop snickering]: The IPCC Wants to be an "Honest Broker"

Such a role would be a very useful step forward for the IPCC, and a marked change from the role taken by its leadership in recent years, which has been to advocate for particular policies that are not evaluated or even discussed by the IPCC.

Jeff Reinartz: Global warming bill a tax on middle class

My question to all this would be that if these people really believed CO2 was warming the planet, as Mr. Gore claims, do you really think they'd let us buy our way out of it? If CO2 is really the threat to civilization they say it is, aren't they negligent in allowing us to go ahead and keep pumping it out as long as we pay for it?

California’s expensive carbon tax delayed « Green Hell Blog

California regulators postponed a final vote on implementing a statewide carbon fee because of litigation fears from taxing imported electricity, according to ClimateWire. The measure would tax electricity imported from the coal-fired power plants located just over California’s eastern border.

Regardless of the imported electricity issue, ClimateWire reports that the new fee would cost a California cement plant about $200,000 per year and an oil refinery about $1.3 million per year.

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » A New Paper “A Case Study on Wintertime Inversions in Interior Alaska with WRF” by Mölders and Kramm 2009

The same type of inaccurate paramterizations is used in the multi-decadal global climate models that were used in the 2007 IPCC report.

Rasmussen Reports™: Today marks the first time Obama's overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among Likely Voters nationwide

Among those not affiliated with either major party, 37% offer a positive assessment.