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On the green revolution: "A lot of snake-oil science. ... Somebody's making an awful lot of money" from the fear of global warming.

Prescott: Copenhagen ten times more difficult than Kyoto

British Labour politician John Prescott sees a clear parallel between the Kyoto and the Copenhagen climate negotiations. Kyoto succeeded in a political deal in the 11th hour.

Why Monbiot ran

Initially, Monbiot agreed to the debate, but someone reasoned that it was a high-risk venture - a debate between a froth and bubble, blog-obsessed journalist and a leading academic with impeccable credentials in earth sciences. The danger for climate alarmists was that Plimer’s entire argument rested on physical evidence of the past, and what that evidence has taught us, while Monbiot and the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) rest their case on computer models and as yet, unproven theories. It became obvious (and Monbiot later admitted this himself) that he didn’t have the scientific background to mount a cogent argument nor to defend the climate-change theories in his normal magisterial, high-brow manner.

MyDD :: Pull the plug on the climate change bill

It's time for environmentalists to accept that Congress is unable to grapple with this problem. We would be better off letting the EPA regulate carbon-dioxide emissions and trying to get President Obama re-elected.

Ore. tree farmers are investing in the redwood

Despite the risk that the redwoods could freeze and die — after years of investment — Fenn convinced local tree farmers to give them a try.
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Also, some growers theorize that the warming climate in the Northwest would make Lane and Douglas counties more hospitable to California species such as the coastal redwood — although global warming is too political for Fenn's acolytes to even address. "You talk climate change, and we all look at our feet," Skach said.