The Economics of Climate Change: Essential Knowledge — MasterResource

Here are the estimated changes to GDP relative to a baseline scenario where no CO2e buildup occurs: +2.5%, +2.3%, +0.9%, +0.1%, no change, -0.1%. -0.4%, -0.9% -1.3%, -1.4%, -1.5% -1.7% -1.9% and -4.8%. In short, climate change will either add or subtract about one year of economic growth from the global economy in the second half of this century.The positive findings in that dataset reflect the fact that temperature has an ambiguous effect on human health; that very little of the modern industrialized economy is weather dependent, that adaptation to climate change is relatively cheap, and that many clear benefits follow from CO2 saturation and warmer weather.

Is Global Warmism Real? - WSJ.com

This item asks not if global warming is real but if global warmism is real. That is, does anyone actually believe all the alarmist talk we've been hearing for upward of two decades now?
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...maybe this is an emperor's-new-clothes situation in which people who aren't actually fooled by the underlying claim are convinced nonetheless that it's not respectable to let anyone know.

Seeing through hoax of the century - Janet Albrechtsen Blog | The Australian

INCREASINGLY, the road to Copenhagen resembles a suburban street on Halloween with the number of climate change freak shows and stunts reaching a nadir in recent weeks. Nicholas Stern says we should turn vegetarian in order to combat climate change. If you must eat meat, eat kangaroos, says Ross Garnaut, because marsupials emit negligible amounts of methane.
...Could man-made climate change turn out to be the greatest hoax of the present century? Certainly, ordinary people are beginning to ask questions.

Climate change on the back burner? - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

Climate change has slipped so far down on the agenda that at least one key committee chairman has suggested it might have to wait until after the 2010 elections.
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“Obviously, it’s not an issue we will be readily addressing this year,” said Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, on whom Democrats are counting to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican-led filibuster.

Democratic leaders also seem unwilling to expend much political capital on climate change when they aren’t even sure when health care reform might get done.
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But Rockefeller warned that the difficulty of passing a bill will increase as the elections draw closer.

“It does make it tougher; everyone gets more scared,” he said.

Republicans plan to use cap and trade as a line of attack next year — particularly against vulnerable Democrats from industrial states.