E.P.A. Lawyers Challenge ‘Cap and Trade’ for Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

I also sent it to Dr. Hansen, who offered this endorsement of the couple’s proposal:

Williams and Zabel have the experience and knowledge to explain why the acid rain “proof” that cap-and-trade works is absolute nonsense...I hope that Williams and Zabel give decision makers pause. This is no time to be rushing into costly ineffectual legislation. It is time to call a halt on any legislation this year, and take time to understand the matter. It would take 20 years to fix the mess that Congress, with the help of special interests, seems intent on creating.

Climate Research News » No Greenhouse Gas Signal in Normalized European Flood Losses 1970-2006

Results show no detectable sign of human-induced climate change in normalised flood losses in Europe. The observed increase in the original flood losses is mostly driven by societal factors

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Open Invitation

Here is an open invitation to my loudest critics. I'd like to invite Joe Romm, Tim Lambert, the guys at Real Climate, William Connolley and anyone else (apologies to critics not mentioned, no slight intended;-) to engage in a substantive debate on the following 10 conclusions that I've reached about the climate issue, based on the fact that the human influence on climate is real, serious and deserving of significant policy attention:

1. There is no greenhouse gas signal in the economic or human toll record of disasters...

October 2009 was Denver's second coldest and fifth snowiest on record

Most of the month of October was cooler than normal in the Mile High City and now that the month is over we see just how cold it was. Denver finished October 2009 with an average temperature more than 8 degrees below normal and had 9 inches more snow than what is normal for the month.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Green Fraud

Update: It turns out that all of the “green” companies so far have sold their tax credits for cash to companies like Wal-Mart and US Bank. This is no enormous problem (though the optics are terrible for the state) but it is yet another reason why the Oregon budget gets busted by this program — a startup solar company won’t use tax credits for years as it will take some time to be profitable (if they ever are) but Wal-Mart can use them right now.