Arctic temperature headed below freezing « Watts Up With That?

The temperatures from the buoy have been hitting -2°C regularly the past nineteen days.

EDITORIAL: Bury the messenger - Washington Times

The White House muzzles a global warming skeptic
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If the office can't analyze the science in order to determine a regulation's economic effects, it won't have any basis for figuring out those effects. Hiding scientific research is not what Americans expect from a president who boasted that his administration would "restore science to its rightful place." And for a president who promised to "strengthen whistleblower laws," this attempt to marginalize a true whistleblower smacks of insincerity. Its implications for economic and environmental policy are dangerous.

Scientists and intellectuals 'key to new green economy,' Ban says

17 August 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an academic forum in Seoul today that scientific and intellectual leadership is the key to creating the new green economy of the 21st century.

Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"

"The European Union's carbon permit trading scheme is not even a market, much less a successful one. The UK's solution to their emissions pledges is to place the responsibility on utility companies to get ever higher percentages of their energy from 'clean' sources, passing the costs through to customers in the form of higher bills. Here in the U.S., it seems as if we will learn both bad lessons and incorporate them both in some kind of hybrid non-solution."