Omaha.com - Fossil indicates a frost-free past

KIMBALL, Neb. — A discovery of a giant land tortoise shell, at least 5 million years old, in a highway construction project shows that western Nebraska was once frost-free.

Forecasting the Earth’s Temperature « Watts Up With That?

[David Whitehouse] Lean and Rind estimate that 73% of the temperature variability observed in recent decades is natural. However, looking at the observed range of natural variants, and their uncertainties, one could make a case that the AGW component, which has only possibly shown itself between 1980 – 98, is not a required part of the dataset. Indeed, if one did not have in the back of one’s mind the rising CO2 concentration and the physics of the greenhouse effect, one could make out a good case for reproducing the post 1980 temperature dataset with no AGW!

Climate change talks ‘in danger’, warns David Miliband - Times Online

Hopes of a global deal to tackle climate change have receded after David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said there was a “real danger” that a UN summit in Copenhagen in December would fail to produce an effective treaty on cutting greenhouse gases.

New Paper Shows Staggering Cost to Americans of Waxman-Markey | GlobalWarming.org

To summarize, the authors of the study have conclusively demonstrated that the Waxman-Markey bill is actually a very bad deal for the United States, and their attempts to claim otherwise are just spin.

The Firm Hand of the Benign Strongman - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online

The New York Times's Thomas Friedman finally gets to where he's been wanting to go all these years. Everything would be so much better if we could just submit to the benign rule of an enlightened elite: