Climate Change Bill Faces Delays In Senate : NPR

Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) says he's comfortable with the slow track.

"I think some people are trying to hurry the process too much," says Rockefeller, who's from a coal state. His panel has yet to schedule its hearings on climate change. "I think it's not unfair to say that if you use the word 'cap-and-trade,' there may be one-half to two-thirds of the United States Senate [who] could not explain what is meant by that — not a good way to sort of go into a bill of that scope and magnitude. I know that my coal miners, the people in West Virginia, they just know it to be a really bad word."

Natural climate variation « Climate Change

Recent change in global temperature is explicable in terms of atmospheric dynamics that depend upon the influence of the sun. There is no need to invoke an anthropogenic influence.

Global warming and cotton candy

And while others are calling for more transparency and the openness of data, I will counter with a call for some mechanism to shield science and scientists from the pressure to produce the right results in the next 10 minutes or you'll lose your funding for the next 10 years.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

...Democrats were three times more likely to say that they will "definitely not vote" in 2010 than are Republicans.