Republican candidate answers students’ questions | Flat Hat News

The Students for a Better Williamsburg political action committee and the College Republicans co-hosted a question-and-answer session with Virginia attorney general candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R-37th) at the Sadler Center Sunday.
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During the question-and-answer session, one student asked Cuccinelli about alternatives to the federal cap-and-trade policy, which was recently adopted in an effort to control pollution.

“The planet has actually been cooling down over the past ten years,” Cuccinelli said, reaffirming his belief that global warming is not supported by conclusive scientific fact.

Hansen calls for a moratorium on new coal plants. | Gather

from an interview with Dr. James Hansen in Earth Island Journal Autumn 2009 issue:
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[Q] What would you say has made you different than many of the climate scientists who came before you?

[Hansen] I guess what seems to have made me different is that I am willing to say a little more bluntly what a lot of scientists are already beginning to think but are a bit reluctant to say publicly or at least not in a clear enough way that the public recognizes what they're saying.

[Q] How do you feel President Obama is doing on the climate?

[Hansen] Well, I am disappointed that he has not become a little more involved. He seems to be letting the politics just play out, and perhaps planning to be a judge in the compromises. But it's a case where we clearly need leadership. And he is still our best hope in achieving that.
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[Chris W] And how about China, the elephant in the corner of the room? If we are not willing to stop building coal plants, how do we get them to stop? Answer: we don't. And so the Copenhagen climate summit is doomed before it even starts.

Sunspots not behind warming | Political Opinion | Wichita Eagle

At a Kansas State Fair town hall meeting, Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, argued against cap-and-trade legislation, stating that we needed a review of international climate science and claiming that climate change is predominantly caused by changes in sunspot cycles ("State Fair politics decidedly GOP red," Sept. 13 Eagle).
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Regardless of whether cap-and-trade is the right political solution to this scientific problem, it does not mean the problem does not exist. As a climate scientist, I ask you to please take the time to inform yourself on this topic before you blindly listen to the latest fad. The IPCC (at the Web site www.ipcc.ch) report is a great place to start.

JOHANNES J. FEDDEMA