Venezuela Orders 20% Reduction in Electricity Use (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

President Hugo Chavez is asking residents to take three-minute showers and accept rolling blackouts to prevent a total collapse of the electricity system.

Eco-tourists blamed for melting polar ice caps - Telegraph

Mr Lamers said there needs to be a binding international treaty that will limit the number of tourists and landings allowed in Antarctica.

C3: Has Past Global Warming Caused Increase of Infectious Diseases? Latest Peer-Research Says No

Global warming scientists and alarmists have made non-scientific claims and predictions that global warming will increase the spread of disease. Peer-reviewed research reveals the predictions to be without merit.

A “More Likely Than Not” IPCC Mystery « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

With this wondrous little change the AR4 is no longer a document that must admit that human activity may or may not (we don’t really know) cause an increase in hurricanes, in heavy precipitation events, in heat waves, droughts and more. Instead it says “more likely than not” in these cases. Obviously, the original terminology only allowed for a vague “we don’t know” whether the coin will land heads up; it sounds much better to say that the coin is more likely to land heads up than tails up.

Video: GOP says no to climate change [hoax] | OnyxBook

Dec. 22: Senate Republicans, unhappy with the way the health reform debate was handled, are now threatening to block climate change legislation. Msnbc political analyst Richard Wolffe discusses. (Countdown)

Change… Obama Now More Loathed Than Bush at End of His Second Term

In less than one year Barack Obama managed to pi$ off more people than George W. Bush.
Nice work, Barack.