Now China lays down challenge to Obama on climate « THE BLOGGER

[photo caption] Gisele Bundchen, supermodel and activist, called for agreement on a global deal to fight climate change at a pre-UN Assembly rally in Washington Square Park, New York. She was speaking in her new role as a UN ambassador for the environment

Norm Kalmanovitch: CYCLES OF WARMING AND COOLING UNCONNECTED WITH CO2 IN RECENT HISTORY

...Today, two decades later, they are still making this claim with incontrovertible evidence that the Earth has been cooling since 2002 in spite of the continued rapid increase in global CO2 emissions, clearly demonstrated in the IPCC's own reports. There is absolutely no rational basis for the claim that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are causing or have caused causing global warming, and anyone making this claim under the guise of "consensus science" is guilty of committing scientific fraud.

This fraud is not trivial. It has been perpetuated for so long that it is now accepted as fact and forms the basis for government programs worldwide, and these programs have had nothing but detrimental effects on the world population and world economy.

FT.com /  Scientific consensus over dire consequences

The gap between the glacial pace of negotiations and the rapid progress of global warming is now endangering the safety of the planet, scientists are warning.

CapitalClimate: FT Features Comprehensive Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Coverage

Today's Financial Times features a package of articles relating to Tuesday's climate summit meeting in New York leading up to the Copenhagen conference in December (registration required).

The Federal ‘Green’ Superhighway: 3,000 Miles to Nowhere? (Part I: siting politics and state wealth transfers) — MasterResource

But, this court decision doesn’t bring an end to the push for federalizing transmission siting authority. Far from it. The next page of the game plan uses the supposed need for a “green” coast-to-coast transmission superhighway as cover for nationalizing all future transmission siting decisions.