Dangerously cold weather keeps icy grip on Colorado - The Denver Post

It is dangerously cold in widespread areas of Colorado this morning, with below zero temperatures recorded overnight throughout the state.

At 6 a.m. today Denver's temperature was -16 degrees and the wind chill factor dropped the temperature to -27 degrees.

Are all other Chinese academics Rush Limbaugh followers who hate their grandchildren?

There are others within China who see room for tougher domestic moves, such as prominent Tsinghua Univeristy economist and government advisor Hu Angang, who says that curbing emissions is in China’s national best interest. His view isn’t the mainstream. “As you know, I am the only Chinese academic openly calling for emissions cuts, and that is just lamentable,” he said in an August interview.

Is this the end for the biodiesel industry? Without Congressional action, it could be. - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The ailing biodiesel industry has been playing weeping violins for a while, but its latest plea for help has a decided Doomsday ring. If Congress lets a $1-a-gallon tax credit for blenders expire at the end of the year, biodiesel makers could end up curtailing all production, according to a report released this week by the National Biodiesel Board.

The world of the AP: Where information unhelpful to Obama simply doesn’t exist | The North Star National

So it wouldn’t be appropriate to include a statement along the lines of: “The Summit comes at a time when e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have raised questions about the integrity of some climate scientists’ work.”? It would be par for the course from the AP, but in this case, it’s also contrary to the AP’s political agenda. So they report the story as if Climategate doesn’t even exist.

Global warming and media strategies: Fuller

It looks as though the consensus on Anthropogeneic Global Warming has maintained its tenuous hold on the minds and imaginations of the major media and politicians, even after Climategate. It's fairly clear that more reporters and politicos are holding their nose while repeating the same tired tropes.

Those who oppose the consensus should consider this a lost battle, and learn some lessons from it.

Op-Ed Columnist - Going Cheney on Climate - Climate fraud promoter Tom Friedman - NYTimes.com

Yes, the climate-denier community, funded by big oil, has published all sorts of bogus science for years — and the world never made a fuss.
...The evidence that our planet, since the Industrial Revolution, has been on a broad warming trend outside the normal variation patterns — with periodic micro-cooling phases — has been documented by a variety of independent research centers.
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We just know two things: one, the CO2 we put into the atmosphere stays there for many years, so it is “irreversible” in real-time (barring some feat of geo-engineering); and two, that CO2 buildup has the potential to unleash “catastrophic” warming.

Flashback: Atmospheric Residence Time of Man-Made CO2: 5-15 years?

With the short (5−15 year) RT results shown to be in quasi-equilibrium, this then supports the (independently based) conclusion that the long-term (100 year) rising atmospheric CO2 concentration is not from anthropogenic sources but, in accordance with conclusions from other studies, is most likely the outcome of the rising atmospheric temperature, which is due to other natural factors.