UPDATED – Criticism of Global Warming Skeptics And My Response « NCTimes.com Blogs

The comments have really gotten cumbersome over at my much-noted post of conversion from AGW believer to skeptic.

How a Radical Approach to Climate Change Will Help Business | James Hansen | Big Think

The NASA climatologist argues that a steadily increasing carbon tax will help businesses in the long-term and explains why Exxon Mobile’s CEO has been among the first to realize this.

The top 9 eco-stories of 2009 (that have nothing to do with climate change) | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Only a handful of 2009 environmental stories had nothing to do with global warming -- sort of. Our media columnist rounds them up.

Most Albertans snub climate change threat

"Actually, I would have thought it would be higher," said Chaldeans Mensah, a political scientist at Grant MacEwan University. "People are very skeptical about the man-made, global warming theory."

EU Referendum: Fuel poverty

Then there is the financial drag of our wholly inadequate energy policy, blighted by unrealistic climate change requirements. And, of course, the reason why we are paying so much at the moment is that it happens to be rather cold. Thus, in order to "stop the planet heating up" seven million people are having stay cold.

Would that they knew it, many of those shivering in their poorly heated houses would hugely enjoy the irony of their having to freeze to save the planet. However, "dying for your planet" does not have quite the same ring about it as "dying for your country", although Dr Pachauri, ensconced in his multi-million dollar home in Delhi, would undoubtedly approve.

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog: Climate change: Will our grandchildren revile the 'lost decade'?

Well, there's UN democracy for you - gavelled the Accord through without even putting it to a vote. And the UN wanted to create a UN-led World Government at COP15!

But wait! Didn't UN credibility lie in ruins before the opening of COP15? Wasn't the UN credibility shattered with the leaking of the ClimateGate emails?