The Reference Frame: James Hansen vs Marc Morano: a debate

There will be a Morano-Hansen debate on foxnews.com (just the website) tomorrow, i.e. on Thursday! Let's admit, Hansen is pretty courageous - or suicidal.

Politicians Continue Public Investment in Climate Scam

Those disaster-movie-style scare tactics are an act of desperation necessary to sway the public’s wavering opinion on the notion of man-made climate change, particularly in light of the Climategate scandal, which exposed the dirty dealings of global warming “experts” who evidently deleted, doctored and destroyed inconveniently true data that rendered their climate change theories bunk and not beyond question. But where public opinion can’t be manipulated with fear mongering and lies, political victory will be won with the brute force of federal regulation.

Richard Littlemore | ClimategateTV: Deniers Start Their Own Station

The Deniers have rustled up their own TV station, an offshoot of the right-wingy Corbett Report called ClimateGate TV. The site has everything you could possibly want in terms of hyperventilating and belligerent commentary about the emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The only thing missing is even the tiniest hint about who's paying the the bills for the new "service."

Advice for the White House Travel Team - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Make sure to pack warm clothes for the president's trip to the global-warming summit in Copenhagen.

Hang in There, Mr. President: Poll-Number Improvements Coming Right Up - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Reader Steve has an idea to deal with the president's fading numbers: Let climate modelers homogenize them:

I think a hilarious example to illustrate this absurd result would be to feed President Obama's declining poll numbers, or the declining jobs numbers, into the Mann procedure and watch them miraculously curve up. See? We just needed to "trick" the numbers!

Al Gore talks Climategate on CNN and Slate, misstates the facts

His handlers apparently did not brief Gore on these facts before he appeared on CNN this morning where he again mentioned “private emails more than 10 years old” and a second time called the messages, “emails from long ago.”

Host John Roberts, to his credit, was quick to correct Gore saying that, “many are far more recent than that.” Gore did not respond.
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Roberts overall challenged Gore on a number of points, specifically about alternative energy sources, their limitations and the debate about nuclear power. By the end of the interview the former vice president appeared to be a bit rattled.