[Alarmist journalist Gwynne Dyer weighs in] - The Japan Times Online

The catch is that Japan's 25 percent offer and the EU's 30 percent offer both depend on other developed countries — by which they mean the U.S. — adopting a similar target. But President Barack Obama isn't promising any cut at all on the 1990 level of U.S. emissions. He's just offering to get back to that level by 2020, citing as an excuse the growth of U.S. emissions during eight years of denial under the Bush administration.

It doesn't really work as an excuse. Japan is also significantly over its 1990 level at the moment.

Charlie Crist's strong support may have shaky base among GOP - St. Petersburg Times

After infuriating conservatives for, among other things, campaigning for President Barack Obama's stimulus package, Crist more recently has criticized the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, bashed Obama's health care reform plan as "cockamamy," backed off his global climate change initiative and stood by his hand-picked state party chairman in attacking Obama's plans to address schoolkids.

EU Referendum: A triumph for propaganda

Interestingly, the BBC is now downplaying the hype, referring only to "German ships", and admitting that the route has been "passable without ice breakers in 2005", neglecting to tell us that this journey required substantial assistance from ice breakers. So much for global warming.

Not from The Independent though are we allowed to know the truth. Its editorial proclaims that, "One hundred years ago, the news of a ship successfully traversing the treacherous North-east Passage would have prompted popular celebrations and wild enthusiasm." Yet, despite the feat of the Vega in 1879, this is now "a confirmation of just how rapidly and dangerously our climate is changing."

There are lies, damn lies, and then there is The Independent.