AccuWeather Forecaster on Climate Change: 'It’s Ice not Fire You’re Going to Be Worried about Down the Road' | NewsBusters.org

While the wizards of smart are convening in Copenhagen, attempting to solve what they perceive to be the biggest global societal ill - anthropogenic climate change, one of the things that likely won't be discussed is the possibility of the opposite occurring, global cooling.

But AccuWeather's chief hurricane forecaster, Joe Bastardi warns it is a bigger threat than global warming. He says the phenomenon is coming, based on three priniciple reasons - 1) Natural reversal of ocean cycles, 2) Low sun spot activity and 3) An increase in volcanic and seismic activity. Bastardi made this case on the Fox Business Network's Dec. 11 "Imus in the Morning" program.
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Host Don Imus had his own view on the whole climate change craze - that it was a means for rulers of impoverished countries to capitalize financially.

"My view on global warming is that it's a gigantic financial scam to funnel money to these countries that think they ostensibly are going to use to improve conditions in their country, environmentally and so on, but officials use -- I guess apparently Tiger Woods did -- to hire hookers, ride around in limos and in cases of some of these diplomats and some of these countries buy cocaine, Joe," Imus said. "I know you may not believe that."

The Psychology of Climate Change Denial | Wired Science | Wired.com

Kari Norgaard: On the one hand, there have been extremely well-organized, well-funded climate-skeptic campaigns. Those are backed by Exxon Mobil in particular [what the hell, specifically, is Norgaard talking about here?!], and the same PR firms who helped the tobacco industry (.pdf) deny the link between cancer and smoking are involved with magnifying doubt around climate change.

Wired Seeks Psychological Reason for 'Climate Change Denial' | NewsBusters.org

Not a single skeptical scientist or layperson was included in Keim's article to explain for themselves why they don't believe in global warming, or at least that there isn't reason to panic and spend trillions of dollars to stop it.

Media Matters: With "Climategate" and Jennings smears, the right goes guerilla | Media Matters for America

...the right not only wholeheartedly embraced these illegally obtained documents, it actively took steps to hide the fact that they were obtained by theft. Fox News spent an entire week describing the emails as "leaked," "revealed," and "uncovered." The conservative media critics at NewsBusters chastised the media for "paint[ing] the 'stolen' e-mails not as laudatory whistle-blowing, but as an unwanted impediment to the left's global warming agenda."

Cold weather stings everybody working outdoors | Edmonton | News | Edmonton Sun

Environment Canada predicts the mercury could drop as low as -31 C today and - 35 C tomorrow, warming only slightly throughout the week.

Deprogramming Children After Global Warming Scam | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory

Efforts to politically indoctrinate and manipulate school children are not new but they have intensified in the west in recent years. Parents in the old Soviet Bloc at least had enough experience before its fall to have some wisdom on dealing with it. Westerners however, are newbies.