Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Trade Tensions: Sen. Baucus Says Climate Bill Must Protect U.S. Industry - Environmental Capital - WSJ
Now, not only has the Senate pushed back final action on the bill until next year, what little consensus there is seems to be building around a policy—carbon tariffs—that has already drawn the explicit ire of leaders in both India and China, not to mention the White House, Europe, and the United Nations. None of that can bode well for hopes of a global climate deal in Copenhagen.
AFP: Merkel threatens no-show at Copenhagen climate talks
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she would only attend December's crunch climate conference in Copenhagen if the US, China and India first make clear their negotiating positions.
Climate madness from candidate for Higgins | Australian Climate Madness
The progress made during the Enlightenment is being wound back thanks to alarmists like you who have an ideological, quasi-religious fervour about climate change, divorced from science or evidence. Voters of Higgins, you have been warned.
[But she's not even a climatologist!]: Supermodel: Why I Took It Off For Climate Change « Climate Progress
Right now, preventing catastrophic climate change is just about the most important thing any one of us should be working on right now.
World Climate Report » Airborne Fraction of Human CO2 Emissions Constant over Time
In fact, the data showed that the fraction of CO2 emitted into the atmospheric by human activities has remained constant for the past 40 years.

This fact runs directly counter to the idea that the earth’s natural CO2 sinks are weakening—instead it indicates that natural sinks have been expanding as anthropogenic CO2 emissions have increased.

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