Betting on Copenhagen - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Second alien: And? On Anafraxion we’ve been using carbon dioxide as a climate regulation mechanism for eons. It works rather well.

Fourth alien: Sorry, fellow life forms, but could you explain to me why carbon dioxide matters? My kind have been space-farers for so long, I don’t really remember how our planet worked.

Third alien (rolls one of his many eyes): The Earth’s climate is affected by many factors — methane gas, volcanic eruptions, ocean currents, the planet’s orbit, that kind of thing. But by far the most reliable way to affect the climate is to fiddle with the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When that rises, the atmosphere traps more of the sun’s heat, and the planet warms. When it falls, the reverse happens.

Global Warming’s Cold Shoulder - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Do advocates of global-warming theory at the Copenhagen conference think it helps their cause to ignore questions from skeptics?

So . . . Which Time Were You Lying? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

This is fairly typical Obama administration sniveling and dissembling: Don't blame us, carbon regulation was in the works since our reckless predecessor . . . but . . . this marks the first time our government ever showed responsibility. This decision is not posturing in advance of Copenhagen . . . but . . . what a great thing for us to do as Copenhagen began — the Euros really dug it.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: AP on Leaked CRU Emails

It is these efforts to stage manage climate science that I have argued is the most troubling aspect of the emails. These activist scientists stated that they were interested in the truth, but their actions as revealed by the emails showed a greater interest in truthiness in order to shape a public message and defeat their nefarious opponents.

AP IMPACT: Science not faked, but not pretty - Yahoo! News

The AP studied all the e-mails for context, with five reporters reading and rereading them — about 1 million words in total.