2009 and Global Warming: David Whitehouse

In summary, it would be fair to say that we live in a warm decade as a result of warming in the 1980’s and 1990’s but it is now incontrovertible that it hasn’t become any warmer in the past decade. I’m surprised there is still debate about this and about the lack of clarity in the Nasa press release.

Cultural Climate Change - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I received a call from a jet-setting economic-journalist type some weeks ago telling me of a cultural indicator he thought signaled rough times ahead for the institutions of the global-warming industry — as they scramble to retain their franchises even as their hijinks catch up to them and "the science" crumbles around them. Like Punxatawny Phil and his shadow, this guy's tres chic cousin in London rolled her eyes and offered an "oh, that's so last year" dismissal when he rakishly prodded her seeking a beautiful-people-type rant about global warming.
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And then today, I see the program at Davos. Sure, it's still rife with the words "climate change" but generally in the context of energy — specifically, how to get continued financing for the "green" energy projects all of these participants leapt into when they saw their pals in government taking your billions and transferring them to these inefficient "investments." But then I viewed the proceedings. After a few minutes of PC-babble, World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab reported on the relative importance given to various issues: water is first, and the "greatest threat facing mankind" . . . doesn't even make the top six.

When you've lost Davos — on a pet project of wealthy elites and rent-seekers — you might want to tell your clients to short the thing.

Oregon alternative energy boondoggle “primary factor in growing budget deficit” at Heliogenic Climate Change

The out-of-control subsidies have become a primary factor in the state’s growing budget deficit, which has forced the legislature to raise taxes and cut spending on education and other core programs. …

ObamaGirl [turns on Obama]; says the thrill is gone - NYPOST.com

"I know he's getting a lot of flak for things that he's not doing," she told The Post. "In my opinion, I feel like he should be focusing a lot more on jobs and the economy."
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"He did create some jobs, but most of them were government jobs and that doesn't really help the middle class. But it helps a bit," said Ettinger.

Her grade for Obama: B- minus.

I wonder if he can win her back by blowing billions of additional dollars on completely insane attempts to prevent bad weather?