EU: farmers need to do more for climate: Associated Press Business News

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union's agriculture chief says farmers need to do more to keep climate change under control through more efficient fertilizing and use of water.

Treasury Says Cap-and-trade is a Big Old Tax - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Other gems not noted in that story include the admission that cap-and-trade would cause the loss of steel, paper, aluminum, chemical, and cement manufacturing jobs which, as happened under Europe's scheme, tend to export themselves to saner environments. Windfall profits under the scheme of allocating the ration coupons, the Waxman-Markey approach, are also admitted to.

In short, a candid snapshot of what they're admitting to each other, while telling you a, ah, different story — to your face.

Media 're-open' North Eastern Passage • The Register

Thermageddon fever disappears 70 year trade route
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One of Russia's commercial maritime trade routes for the past 70 years has been "re-opened" by a press hungry for dramatic Global Warming scare stories - but who failed to check the most basic facts.

[As Arctic sea ice grows 20+% over 2007 lows, stunning climate fraud promotion from Vicky Pope at the Met Office]

Commenting on the new study, Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice at the UK Met Office said, "Decades like 1999–2008 occur quite frequently in our climate change simulations, but the underlying trend of increasing temperature remains. We cannot be complacent.

“Indeed, other signals of climate change are increasing as fast, or even faster than ever due to the combined effects of global warming and natural variability — the rapid loss of summer Arctic sea ice is one such example. Early action to reduce the extent and impacts of climate change remains vital.”