Smithsonian Natural History Museum: Global Cooling Exhibit Under Attack

While global warming alarmists are rather miffed that this display is still being shown, it's a good lesson in the absurdity of basing policy on the fad du jour. Everything in the display is actually correct, but that isn't stopping the 'treehuggers' from wondering why it can even be seen, when the man-made global warming hoax should be the ONLY focus at the museum.

Climate bill seeds angst on the farm - TheHill.com

Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad of North Dakota have said they want to wait on climate legislation and instead pass a bill promoting renewable energy development, likely an economic benefit to the windy upper Midwest.

Stimulus money [to be blown on training] scientists to store carbon to fight global warming – OregonLive.com

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded nearly $1 million to the Seattle-based Environmental Outreach and Stewardship Alliance to develop a carbon capture and sequestration curriculum to train a regional workforce.

City of Chula Vista [to blow public money on climate swindle paperwork]

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 08, 2009 – Long Beach, CA—SCS Engineers (SCS) has been awarded a contract by the City of Chula Vista to provide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions report verification services for the City's 2008 GHG emissions.

Part concert, part political rally  - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports

Blankenship criticized the political action committee of railroad company CSX for donating to the campaign of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and also Caterpillar, a top manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, for supporting caps on emissions of carbon dioxide.

"In my view they are un-American, and I have told them so," Blankenship said of Caterpillar.
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He dismissed the notion of global warming, and criticized TV ads that say it's real.

"Only God can change the Earth's temperature, not Al Gore," he said, later adding, "Global warming is pure make-believe."
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"This crowd will scare these politicians to death," Blankenship said. "We all need to learn that cap-and-trade is a Ponzi scheme."

Clotheslines a hang-up for some communities - USATODAY.com

"What we're talking about here is a cultural shift," says Alexander Lee, founder of pro-clothesline group Project Laundry List. "It would be nice to go from community association to community association to have this discussion and change the rules, but there are 300,000 of them, and we need to hurry along now if we're going to cope with climate change."

[To compensate, let's all disconnect our cell phone chargers]: Delta Flies Empty Planes Across Atlantic

Delta is planning to stop its disinfection trips to Heathrow at the end of the month, but is expected to switch to a Chinese airport.