A big chill on global warming | Washington Examiner

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has formally requested that the Environmental Protection Agency, which helps fund CRU, "reopen the record" and allow CEI and others to submit newly uncovered information regarding the East Anglia data destruction. The conservative think tank also wants to submit information about flaws in other data EPA is using as it devises stringent new anti-global warming regulations. Congress should also investigate the dumping of data partially paid for by U.S. taxpayers and other suspicious global warming anomalies, such as the temperature readings taken from "ghost weather stations" like the one at Maine's Ripogenus Dam. It was officially closed in 1995 but allegedly is still transmitting climate data 14 years later. Such questionable data sources must be eliminated if credible policy decisions are ever to be reached.

Union workers upstage N.J. environmental groups' campaign against planned Linden plant | New Jersey Real-Time News - - NJ.com

But as the activists tried to make speeches from under a city promenade, sheltered from a steady, cold rain, the union workers stood in the down-pour, waving signs and shouting down the speakers’ every word.

"These are environmental extremists. These are the voices of ignorance," said Michael Mulvaney, business manager for the Steamfitters Local 475. "This plant is not experimental. It’s been done in the North Sea and other places, and it’s being done to help the environment. It also will create 250 permanent jobs here, along with 2,000 construction jobs for five years while this is built."

CNSNews.com - 'Green' Customers Get Discounts at Berlin Brothel

(AP) One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door.

Brrrr! First half of October the coldest ever | StarTribune.com

High temperature averaged a chilly 47 degrees for the first two weeks of the month - 16 degrees below normal.
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With 19 consecutive days of below normal temperatures and accumulating snow falling a few weeks before normal, news that this has been the coldest start to an October on record in the Twin Cities probably isn't all that shocking.

Apocalypse Or Extinction? By Guy R McPherson

If we abandon the industrial culture of death, we might persist until your children are old enough to die a "normal" death. But the odds are long and the time short. Barack Obama epitomizes the actions of every politician in the world by ensuring, with every political act, a miserable future and insufferable death for his wife and children.

Now I mourn because the solution is right in front of us, yet we run from it. We fail to recognize our salvation for what it is, believing it to be dystopia instead of utopia. Are we waiting for the last human on the planet to start the crusade?

Guy R. McPherson is Profesor Emeritus at the University of Arizona.

Conmen are already selling dodgy forest carbon - The Ecologist

REDD may look great from the windows of the skyscrapers where it was dreamed up, but cock-fighting, cowboys and sky money are there to trip up the money-men when they come down to ground level.