C3: As of December 31, 2009: 12-Year U.S. Cooling Trend Is Now -11.03°F Per Century

Overall decade-long global cooling trend has not abated. Both the U.S. and the world are definitely not experiencing global warming, in any sense of the concept. The case for AGW is without merit as temperatures have done exactly the opposite of what IPCC experts and climate models predicted a decade ago.

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The predictable collapse of the Copenhagen discussions and the subsequent ridicule in the Internet make it most unlikely that meaningful international agreements will be achieved in the foreseeable future.

There is a very real possibility of a deterioration in international relations if nothing is done to bridge the ever widening gap between the alarmists and the sceptics that will also provide a face-saving exit for the politicians.

[Who is paying for this, and why?]: Stoney Creek teacher set for journey to Antarctica

Local Grade 3 teacher Jacqueline Phillips is among a group of staff and high school students on the trip of a lifetime organized by Gatineau, Que.-based Students on Ice.

And through the magic of the Internet, she will keep in touch with her students at Gatestone Elementary School in Stoney Creek with daily blog posts.

Phillips is among nine chaperones on the trip that leaves today and lasts till Jan. 11. She will be joined by a staff of 14 scientists, oceanographers and glaciologists, as well as an artist and 65 students from Canada and around the world.

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Caldeira’s study showed that doubling the amount of carbon dioxide while holding steady all other inputs— water, nutrients and so forth— yields a 70% increase in plant growth, an obvious boon to agricultural productivity.

Joplin Independent:Is global warming a threat to agriculture?

Doesn't that mean gathering only data that support their theory? I believe this may well be just another public relations stunt by the Obama Administration to scare the American public into believing that U.S. agriculture and food production are in jeopardy so they can implement massive legislative and regulatory changes. I, for one, am not buying it, and I will not budge off of my notion that global warming is the largest man-made hoax the world has ever seen.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Trent Loos is a sixth-generation farmer/rancher based in Loup City, NE.

Global warming's triple whammy

he oomph seems to have gone out of the supporters of dramatic solutions to global warming. From Al Gore on down, the scientists, media, NGOs and concerned members of the public have been a lot quieter.

It isn't hard to figure out why--Climategate, Copenhagen, Cold. The triple whammy.