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On climate change: as Obama told the G8 how urgent action is needed, Sen. Boxer's committee delayed it.

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The squeaker vote on cap-and-trade has proven so popular in the Senate and the president’s words of encouragement so compelling that liberal Sen. Barabara Boxer is burying it — maybe forever.
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So this may turn out to be the worst of all worlds for the Democratic House leadership and the White House, who forced vulnerable members to walk the plank for nothing. Environmental groups will be furious if large Democratic majorities and a Democratic president can’t deliver. And yet those members who tried to deliver will be tagged by opponents in 2010 as disregarding bread-and-butter concerns during a recession.

Sometimes it pays to just say “no.”

What do you think? - OrlandoSentinel.com poll: [Currently, 13.9% of responses side with Al Gore]

Is global warming a serious problem or much ado about nothing?

Global warming: Junk explanations don't make case for global warming - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

I am not going to sit here and tell you that the hysteria the last few years over global warming is all because of junk science.

Because I'm not a scientist, I don't know that.

I do know, however, that the explanations and justifications for all the time and money being spent on global warming are a bunch of vague, bureaucratic junk.

What really bothers me is when politicians and so-called experts talk about "generall accepted" truths about global warming. We're even hearing such gibberish now at the G-8 summit. "Generally accepted" by whom? You can get 10 scientists to tellyou anything you want about global wamring, and another 10 who will just as quickly refute it.

Pembroke's Past: The year without a summer | Pembroke Express - Hometown newspaper for Pembroke, Mass.

Farmers of the period knew very little about scientific theories, so when this horrible summer was followed by a winter that was so severe that the mercury froze in thermometers, many must have believed that the change would be permanent.