British Lord urges the 'courage to do nothing'

Monckton believes he has a slam-dunk case against the IPCC's apocalyptic view of the future, and that to the extent that the atmosphere might warm, adaptation is more cost effective than mitigation. The cost of one degree Centigrade means forgoing two trillion tonnes of CO2 emissions: For perspective's sake, the total U. S. annual output of CO2 is 30 billion tonnes. "In other words, we would be closing down the world economy, and going back to caves without even the right to light a fire within our own." Meanwhile, the diversion of grain agriculture to fuel (ethanol) from food is already driving up food prices and causing shortages in poor countries.

The solution? "Sometimes," Monckton tells audiences, "the correct response is to have the courage to do nothing."

How Republicans can save the climate bill | Marc Gunther

People are elected to the Senate to serve the nation, not to play politics with life-and-death issues like climate and health care.
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Obama himself hasn’t reached out to Republican leaders on climate. To the dismay of enviros, his actions suggest that climate ranks no higher than No. 4 on his to-do list, behind the economy, health care and Afghanistan/Iraq.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Magical Solutions from the IPCC

1. The IPCC explicitly does not make recommendations by design. In its 2007 report it certainly did not argue "that greenhouse gas emissions must peak no later than 2015." Pachauri lets the interviewer's error go uncorrected, giving the impression that the IPCC is in the business of making specific policy recommendations. It is not. Who then is he speaking for and where do the recommendations actually come from?

2. Pachauri asserts that: "all the technologies that are required for moving on a path of stringent mitigation are available." This statement is simply wrong as has been shown in a number of studies...

The Senate Bill Tinkers With Touchy Issue — Carbon Offsets | Carbon Offsets Daily

Yesterday, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), the new chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, further stirred the pot by indicating that she “likely” would hold a markup of the climate bill, a move that would create significant pressure to shift the Kerry-Boxer language closer to the House text (E&ENews PM, Sept. 30).

The Democratic aide said that the pool of international offsets was shrunk, since many members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which Boxer chairs, do not trust the environmental integrity of overseas projects as much as that of domestic ones [whose product is currently fetching a dime a ton?].