Renegade weatherman drops his kimono • The Register

Piers Corbyn gave a glimpse into his methods of long-range weather forecasting yesterday. Corbyn can claim an extraordinary degree of accuracy for predicting extreme weather events. So much so, it makes the professionals look stupid. Corbyn's WeatherAction is a successful private business, with farmers, big insurance, and other serious players increasingly shunning the taxpayer-funded Met Office in preference to his forecasts. He's been banned by the bookies from betting on his own forecasts.
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For weather events, Corbyn identifies bursts of solar particle and electromagnetic activity he calls SWIPS.

SEPP - Science & Environmental Policy Project

A draft treaty prepared for the Copenhagen COP-15 conference calls not only for huge income transfers from developed (OECD) nations to LDCs (less developed countries), ‘developing’ nations (like China and India); it also calls for a system of global governance. If either or both of these policies are agreed to in CPH, even if signed by the US President, there is little chance of ratification by the US Senate. I would argue that, based on science, the LDCs should pay us for having raised the level of CO2, the essential plant fertilizer; and we should all thank China for putting more CO2 into the atmosphere.
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It looks more and more that CPH, the ‘Son of Kyoto,’ will do nothing that conceivably impacts on climate – in spite of grandiose promises to cut emissions of GH gases.

Virginia Voters Send a Clear Message - George Allen

The issues being debated in Washington -- causes for the summer of rightful discontent at town hall meeting, rallies and tea parties -- resonated in the Virginia contests. The Republican candidates were unambiguously opposed to government taking over our health care choices, against the job killing, skyrocketing electricity bills that would result from the unilateral economic disarmament of the “cap and tax” scheme, and against doing away with private ballots in unionization efforts.

I heard the concerns of Virginians who traveled through pouring rain last week to the Southwest Virginia Community College for a town hall meeting on “Cap and Trade”. The folks who turned out see this proposal as a direct attack on tens of thousands coal-related jobs -- whether miners, equipment manufacturers or suppliers, or workers with our railroads and ports. All understood that restricting and taxing our energy would cause higher electricity, food and fuel bills while having no impact on global temperatures. People were indignant when alerted that our American sovereignty may be sacrificed to the United Nations bureaucracy at the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

45% for Obama, 49% Against – If Election Were Held Right Now - Rasmussen Reports™

Americans are a little less enthusiastic about the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama this time around.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% of adults say they would be at least somewhat likely to vote for Obama if he was up for reelection right now. Forty-nine percent (49%) say they would be unlikely to vote for the president’s reelection.
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Ninety percent (90%) of African-Americans say they would be at least somewhat likely to vote for Obama, compared to 36% of whites.

SuperFreaking Out Over Climate Engineering - Ronald Bailey - Reason Magazine

Freakonomics authors freak out environmental activists by suggesting a technical fix for global warming