ACORN to get cap-and-trade cash in NY « Green Hell Blog

Democratic legislators in New York want to give ACORN part of the $112 million that the state has raised from the sale of carbon allowances through the Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

EPA News - Greg Pollowitz - Press release from Reps. Issa and Sensenbrenner:

“EPA is moving swiftly to consolidate its power over U.S. energy production through regulation of CO2 and other GHGs under the Clean Air Act. The NCEE was an internal stumbling block that raised concerns about an ideologically driven agenda. Now EPA is taking actions to dismantle the office,” said Rep. Issa, the Ranking Republican Member on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “This proposal reeks of Chicago style politics – eliminating voices that dared to question.”

[Antarctica: Still cold] | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

Of course the weather for any given month rarely follows the average, and this September has been a colder than average September, with most days up until the past few days having temperatures below -30 degrees C at Pegasus, and many days having temperatures below -40 degrees C. This made our attempts to fly the Aerosondes very difficult.

[Money manager buys into global warming fraud] - thedailygreen.com

"I am deeply concerned about the investor risks climate change presents, and the human cost of inaction is unthinkable," said New York's Comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, who is in charge of investing the $116.5 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund. "As investors in the global economy, we can lead the way toward a future of lasting prosperity."

The Reference Frame: Kyoto II: Obama vs Eurocrats

The declared purpose of the December 2009 negotiations in Copenhagen that will hopefully fail completely is to save the Earth if not the multiverse. The UAH AMSU data see the average annual and global brightness temperature of the Earth to be close to minus 15.5 °C. Ban Ki-Moon and similar stellar scientists have calculated that if the temperature exceeds f***ing frying minus 13.5 °C which is by 2 °C higher, all of us are going to evaporate or transform into plasma and the Universe may decay into a different state, too. And I don't have to explain you the staggering statistical implications for the whole multiverse. ;-)