Power Line - The Climate Change Scam: A Concise Summary

In the wake of Climategate, common sense deniers like to say that there is lots of other evidence for global warming, in addition to that which has been debunked by the East Anglia whistleblower. Actually, however, the scientific evidence for AGW is remarkably weak. At Icecap, Lee Gerhard, geologist and reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sums up the key scientific evidence with admirable brevity

[First green president to take yet another unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to Hawaii]

...it looks like the First Family will still make it to Hawaii for Christmas.
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The Obamas have celebrated Christmas in Hawaii, where the President grew up, nearly every year since the girls were born.

Flashback: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

CBS's Knoller: Obama Burned 9,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel for One Earth Day Speech | NewsBusters.org

The press office at Andrews AFB wouldn’t give me the fuel consumption numbers for the 747 that serves as Air Force One without the approval of the White House Press Office, which as I write this has yet to be given.

But Boeing says its 747 burns about 5 gallons of fuel per mile.

Copenhagen Climate Conference failed because prosperity matters

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the Lead House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee issued the following statement after the Copenhagen Global Warming Conference ended with an agreement so "vague, hastily hatched and non-binding President Obama isn’t even sure he’ll be required to sign it."

"Copenhagen failed because countries large and small fear the loss of economic prosperity that will accompany these arbitrary and scientifically questionable limits on carbon," said Congressman Brady. "A growing number of people around the world are reluctant to pay devastatingly higher fuel costs as part of an unproven experiment that will not likely change the natural cooling and heating cycles of the earth."