Investors.com - 'Nuts' To Copenhagen

Speaking at an Oxford University climate science conference on Monday, Schellnhuber blamed the U.S. for a decade of inaction caused by President George W. Bush. Ironically, it was a decade where the sun grew quiet and the Earth cooled as result.

Yet, ignoring the empirical evidence, he says it's we American cowboys who are "climate illiterates" for actually looking at the Earth's thermometer and daring to notice the snow in Malibu.

Greentech Media: Google’s Dan Reicher Throws Cold Water on Cap-and-Trade This Year | Green Light

Add Google's reluctant voice to the growing chorus of observers who doubt that a U.S. carbon cap-and-trade law can be passed this year.

Dan Reicher, Google's director of climate change and energy initiatives, said Tuesday that the American Clean Energy and Security Act may well "be caught in gridlock" in the U.S. Senate.

The bill passed the House of Representatives in June, and Senate Democrats are expected to unveil a very similar bill in the Senate as early as tomorrow, Reuters reported.

But "The likelihood of progress in the Senate is dimming," Reicher said in a speech at the REFF-WEST conference in San Francisco.