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Arctic Temperatures Since the mid-90s – Climate Sanity « Digital Diatribes

And here’s the truth, as I see it: The Arctic, over time, has most definitely warmed. In fact, it has warmed at times quite steeply over some short periods of time, and overall it has warmed over long time frames. This warming, however, has definitely stalled since 2001 and we’ve seen the anomalies cooling off in the most recent years. The slope in the short-term is quite negative.

Republicans and Democrats - Michael Barone: A Tale of Two Bases — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

On Capitol Hill, Democrats are much more beholden to their base than are Republicans.
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These constituency realities may help to explain why the House Democratic leadership has supported a solidly liberal agenda and has concentrated on whipping enough members from marginal districts to produce majorities on the floor—the large majority on the stimulus package in February or the narrow majority on cap-and-trade in June. It may also help to explain why the Republican minority has not coalesced around any coherent opposition program, and has avoided taking stands that appeal primarily to the party’s current base.

The carbon casino caught with it’s pants down (again): Another major carbon auditor goes down. « JoNova

Norway’s DNV (Det Norse Veritas, “The Norwegian Truth”) was the largest auditor of the infamous CDM’s (Clean Development Mechanisms) until it was suspended last December when it was caught selling carbon credits for projects it hadn’t checked. At the time it was so large it had approved fully half of all CDM credits on the market. Its excess workload was transferred to number two auditor, SGS, and shock, this week, SGS has been caught and suspended because it couldn’t prove it’s staff had properly vetted projects either. Indeed it couldn’t show that they were even trained to do that vetting. (Did SGS not see this coming?)