Strange Bedfellows - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Politics breeds the oddest of couples. So it is in Virginia, where it seems Al Gore is flying today to help out Democrat candidate for governor, Creigh Deeds. This comes only days after Deeds aggressively fended off attacks over his previously expressed support for a signature issue of his party — "cap-and-trade" energy rationing — by disparaging it and its costs. In this week's debate, he went so far as to call claims that he supports cap-and-trade legislation an example of his opponent lying. Instead, he insisted, he opposes it. Gasp.

Which of Gore's regular name-calling applies to Deeds, then? "Denier"? "Delayer"? "Big Oil-funded shill"?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » AIP column: The cap-and-trade 3-card Monty

States that need to emit more have to buy credits. States that emit less than their allocation can sell credits. This plan does nothing more than force some states to send cash to other states, and cui bono? Why, it’s California, Henry Waxman’s state.

BBC - Ethical Man blog: Is the green movement too radical?

These arguments lead Greens to say that we need to smash capitalism - or at least radically change its priorities - if we are to successfully tackle climate change.

It is not a policy that is likely to engage most mainstream politicians [ya think?] - or for that matter - ordinary people. What is more, spurning market solutions means ignoring one of the most powerful mechanisms for changing behaviour ever developed.

Two days to go to The Cinematic Tea Party « JoNova

Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer have made a desperately needed and polished documentary. Once again, as resistance to the one-sided coverage of the greenhouse crisis grows we can marvel at the determination of people to find a new way to spread the word that there is another side to the story. Once again, grass-roots citizens rise up to fight the witchdoctors who promise to save us from their own exaggerated threats. The indomitable human spirit shines, but sadly so does the destructive power of ideology without rational debate.

Twentieth Century Temperature Correlation with no CO2 influence (update) by Dan Pangburn, P.E. | Solar Cycle 25

The attached work should interest you. It shows a rather simple procedure to accurately (standard deviation of differences between calculated and measured temperature anomalies = 0.0634 C) calculate the average global temperature history of the entire 20th century and to the present time using only the time-integral of sunspot count and an assumption of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) up trend or down trend duration of 32 years and a PDO temperature range of 0.45 C degrees. It assumes no influence from atmospheric carbon dioxide and corroborates previous work.

Dan Pangburn

Three papers from William Gray, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University | Climate Realists