MIT’s Lindzen: CO2 has little effect on climate - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Is this where we are headed? Bans on long distance travel, like in the Soviet Union? Mandatory vegetarianism within city limits? It sounds farfetched, but British legislators have already proposed carbon ration cards, whereby Big Brother would monitor and limit carbon consumption. Under the Markey-Waxman Climate Bill, you have to pass an energy audit before the federal government allows you to sell your house.

I am alarmed, not by a climate catastrophe, but by the harm that might be done by well-intentioned people in the name of saving us from carbon dioxide.

Leaders [fail to fully buy into the greatest scientific fraud in history]

Speaking as officials gather in Barcelona for a final round of negotiations, Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said: ''I gave all the world's leaders a very grim view of what the science tells us and that is what should be motivating us all, but I'm afraid I don't see too much evidence of that … Science has been moved aside and the space has filled with political myopia, with every country now trying to protect its own narrow, short-term interests. ''They are afraid to have negotiations go any further because they would have to compromise on those interests.''

Wash. Post's Juliet Eilperin Rejects Journalistic Balance -- Touts 'Political' UN Climate Scare Report | Climate Depot

[Update: October 16, 2009: Quin Hillyer, Senior editorial writer at The Washington Times, questions Eilperin's potential conflict of interest. "I also seriously question the Post leaving her on a beat on which her own husband has such a direct professional interest," Hillyer wrote. "Eilperin has an obvious APPARENT conflict of interest on it even if she is scrupulously objective. If I were a Post editor, I would move her somewhere else -- with a promotion," Hillyer explained.]

[If Marc Morano helps debunk a massive scientific fraud, will that ruin the lives of billions of people?] « Climate Progress

Tell that to the billions of people whose lives will be needlessly ruined if policymakers and opinion leaders actually believe the disinformation and misrepresentations that Morano pushes day after day after day.

Morano isn’t “communicating” with his “constituency” — he is feeding them a pack of lies.