Senior civil servant to investigate leaked emails between climate scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk

However, Ward warned that the review, which is to begin soon, was unlikely to silence campaigning by climate sceptics. "The big question is whether so-called 'sceptics' will complain because the investigation will not be headed by one of their own, and whether they will suspend their campaigns of disinformation about this affair until the investigation is completed," he said.

In Letter to Obama, Senators State Conditions for Supporting Climate [Swindle] Bill - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The Senators who signed the letter are: are Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Mark Begich of Alaska. All are fence-sitters on the legislation and their votes will be needed when the Senate bill comes up for debate early next year.

The signers of the letter say they will support climate legislation and international efforts to combat global warming if all nations — industrialized as well as developing — are held to stringent limits on climate-altering emissions. They say that tough verification and enforcement mechanisms are necessary. They want to see trade penalties levied against nations that do not comply with any international agreement. They say that any program to transfer technology to emerging nations must contain copyright protections for intellectual property. And any treaty or bill must protect American jobs and promote low-cost solutions to environmental problems.

Climate Research News » Nature Journal’s Rabid Climategate Editorial

Nature has been at the forefront of presenting man-made global warming as fact rather than an unproven computer modelled hypothesis. No surprise then that Nature’s editors would want to gloss over the issues raised in the leaked UEA CRU ‘Climategate’ emails. However, the tone and content of the 3rd December Editorial entitled ‘Climatologists under pressure’ is quite shocking to say the least. I counted the use of the word ‘denial’ or ‘denialist(s)’ six times, including twice in the first paragraph. ‘Denial’ is derogatory term equated with denying the Holocaust, which actually happened, unlike the computer modelled future climate catastrophe.

Worldwide carbon regulation plan could result in doubled costs for airfare - NYPOST.com

WASHINGTON -- Frequent fliers could be heading into turbulence if the worldwide push for new carbon regulation goes forward -- with fuel costs set to soar and the cost of a flight to London more than doubling, a new study concludes.

The cost of a round-trip flight from New York to London -- what well-heeled business types might consider a simple hop across "the Pond" -- would rise by a whopping 140 percent, according to a study in New Scientist magazine.