Jon Stewart On ClimateGate (VIDEO)

On the Daily Show Tuesday night, Jon Stewart dug into ClimateGate -- a series of leaked emails between climate scientists which global warming skeptics have latched onto to prove climate change doesn't exist. "Poor Al Gore," Stewart proclaimed, "global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented."

The American Spectator : Bob Dylan Rocks

"Where's the global warming?" he asked Wenner. "It's freezing here."

That exchange came immediately to mind when the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced Monday that Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall will serve as the theme song for the historic global climate change conference that gets underway next week in Copenhagen.
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...the notion of enlisting Dylan to be the voice of a new green generation is a little silly. The guy did a commercial for Cadillac's gargantuan Escalade SUV two years ago, after all. That, like the Rolling Stone interview, is just another clue that Dylan might not be marching in lockstep with fashionable society when it comes to global warming groupthink.

Australia's Parliament Defeats Global Warming Bill | TheStreet.com

Rudd had wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a world leader on the issue.

Timothy P. Carney: Obamanomics: General Electric wins big with White House | Washington Examiner

Look at any major Obama policy initiative -- healthcare reform, climate-change regulation, embryonic stem-cell research, infrastructure stimulus, electrical transmission smart-grids -- and you'll find GE has set up shop, angling for a way to pocket government handouts, gain business through mandates, or profit from government regulation.

SpaceWeather.com

SOLAR MINIMUM: The sun is in the pits of a very deep solar minimum. Many researchers thought the sunspot cycle had hit bottom in 2008 when the sun was blank 73% of the time. Not so. 2009 is on the verge of going even lower. So far this year, the sun has been blank 75% of the time, and only a serious outbreak of sunspots over the next few weeks will prevent 2009 from becoming the quietest year in a century. Solar minimum continues.

BBC News - [Sting squirms under tough questions about] 'green hypocrisy'

[Good stuff starts at the 2:45 mark] As stars of entertainment prepare to lobby on climate change at the Copenhagen summit next week, Jeremy Paxman talks to veteran environmental campaigner Sting about the effect of celebrity on campaigns, accusations of green hypocrisy by globe trotting stars and his efforts to prevent the building of a hydro-electric dam in Brazil.