Forget Al Gore: Gordon Brown is the new Scaremonger in Chief – Telegraph Blogs

If Obama does go to the UN Copenhagen climate change summit in December it won’t be because of Brown’s pressure, but because his administration is even more left-wing than the one across the Atlantic.

Ice Age Terminations: Orbital Cycles, Ocean Circulation and Shifting Monsoons | The Resilient Earth

One last observation: an interesting exception cited by Cheng et al. is a termination that does not fit neatly into the 100,000-year paradigm. Anomalously weak sunshine 229,000 years ago apparently allowed the accumulation of a massive ice sheet within a short time, causing an exception to the normal glacial-interglacial rhythm. So we see it is not just the Milankovitch Cycles on their own that drives the ice ages, they require a collaboration of orbital dynamics, solar activity and Earth's own climate engine to effect such changes. Yet the supporters of catastrophic climate change insist that humanity will cause unprecedented and irreversible change through the release of CO2. The climate catastrophists are unable to comprehend the truth—the interaction of our planet and its star is what drives climate change.

Punked: Chamber of Commerce Says It Was Victim of Climate-Policy Hoax - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The business lobby says it was the victim of an elaborate hoax this morning, when a group passing itself off as the Chamber announced at a press conference in Washington that it dropped its earlier opposition to the pending climate bill and was now “throwing its weight behind strong climate legislation.”

The fake announcement included prepared remarks by a “Tom Donahue”—the Chamber is led by Tom Donohue—and used a website similar to the business lobby’s. One news outlet, Reuters, briefly ran a story on the Chamber’s “about face” before correcting it.

Business Lobby Warming to Climate Bill? A Balloon Boy Moment - Washington Wire - WSJ

The surprising announcement of an “about face” by the Chamber included a bogus version of Chamber President Tom Donohue’s remarks this morning at the National Press Club, saying “Climatologists tell us that if we don’t enact dramatic reductions in carbon emissions today, within 5 years…that would mean a disruption of food and water supplies worldwide, with the result of mass migrations, famines, and death on a scale never witnessed before. Needless to say, that would be bad for business.”
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Yet the “news” was reported by CNBC, Reuters and Fox before the Chamber burned up the phone lines to correct the error.