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Global-warming advocates have used higher temperatures in the 1990s as a “sky is falling” data point, but have been thoroughly unable to connect that to carbon dioxide release as a primary or even minor cause. Their predictive computer models have failed to predict actual temperatures for the last eleven years, which for any other “science” other than that which means tons of government cash for scientists and state control of energy production would mean the discrediting of the models and the hypotheses of their authors. Even the BBC has begun to notice that global warming, like its predecessor hysteria The Coming Ice Age, is little more than hot air from environmental activists.

Climate Roadmap: Kerry and Graham Chart a Compromise Course–Of Sorts - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Embracing tariffs seems the only way to bring some wayward Democrats into the fold. But it’s not clear that will pass muster with President Obama, let alone spur greater cooperation from the interational community, as Sens. Kerry and Graham write.

China and India in particular are livid at the idea of carbon tariffs—and securing some concessions from those developing countries is also crucial to reaching 60 votes in the Senate.

BBC: Globe Not Warming, Maybe Cooling

Professor Easterbrook says: "The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling."

Climate change skeptics argue that this is evidence that they have been right all along.

They say there are so many other natural causes for warming and cooling, that even if man is warming the planet, it is a small part compared with nature.

[Alarmist Bill McKibben claims to be "in a good mood", but seems depressed]: In Climate World Series, Time to Call the Bullpen | Mother Jones

...the president's climate czarina, Carol Browner, said there was no chance it would make its way through Congress in time for Copenhagen anyway. Which everyone kind of already knew—but still, if there had been any buzz to begin with it would have been a buzzkill.