Revkin Rumored to Be Considering Bolting From NY Times

Has Revkin finally had enough of this battering back and forth?

He’s certainly got enough of a brand to strike out on his own. He could be a star freelancer, book writer, blogger… anything he wants without the backing of The Times.

Climate Delegates Lead by Example

Only one comment is necessary:

“For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.” (Matthew 23, v.4).

Climategate: How one human caused Darwin to warm | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Something is starting to smell about such recalculations by the people who gave us “hide the decline”.

Copenhagen climate conference: An odd sculpture

Sculptures are illuminated as they stand in a water feature
outside the Bella Centre during the Climate Conference in
Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The largest and
most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened
Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that
this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world
from calamitous global warming. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Editorial - The Endangerment Finding - NYTimes.com

There is one obvious way to keep the E.P.A. from having to use this authority on a broad scale. And that is for Congress to pass a credible and comprehensive bill requiring economywide cuts in emissions.

No one would be cheering louder than Ms. Jackson, who has neither the resources nor the ambition to regulate what would amount to 70 percent of the American economy. If Congress fails to act, she will have no choice.

Poll: 26% think Obama deserves Nobel - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

But only 26 percent think the president, who has been in office for less than a year, deserves to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

AccuWeather.com - Blizzard Will Expand from Plains to Upper Midwest

A dangerous blizzard that can close major interstate highways is heading for the Plains and the Upper Midwest. While snow is falling across these areas today, the storm will really ramp up tonight into Wednesday.

The combination of plunging temperatures, high winds and over a foot of snow can leave unaware motorists stranded on Interstates 35, 79, 80 and others.

My Way News - Fierce snowstorm gains strength after hitting West

Parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin were bracing for blizzard conditions and up to 10 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
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The National Weather Service said the upper elevations of the Sierra mountains could get up to 3 feet of snow, with up to 4 feet forecast for the mountains of southern Utah.

Reuters AlertNet - Human role in climate change not in doubt-UN's Ban

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that emails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations' view that climate change is accelerating due to humans.

"Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the recent email hackings has cast doubt on the basic scientific message on climate change and that message is quite clear -- that climate change is happening much, much faster than we realized and we human beings are the primary cause," he said.

The EPA and Obama’s Uncertainty Tax

While a cap-and-trade bill has already passed the House of Representatives, few Capitol Hill observers expected the Senate to approve one, even by the end of 2010 thanks to the anemic economy and political risks for incumbent Democrats facing midterm elections. What’s more, expectations of a more Republican-leaning congress after 2010 made it seem like economy-wide carbon caps were sliding off the Obama agenda for the foreseeable future.