Climate-Bill Advocates Back Off Cap-and-Trade Effort - NYTimes.com

“Realistically, the cap-and-trade bills in the House and the Senate are going nowhere,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who is trying to fashion a bipartisan package of climate and energy measures. “They’re not business-friendly enough, and they don’t lead to meaningful energy independence.”
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“What is dead is some massive cap-and-trade system that regulates carbon in a fashion that drives up energy costs,” he said.
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“If cap and trade becomes a political anathema,” Mr. Bledsoe said, “the consequences are very broad. If it is seen as divisive or politically suicidal, it could be discredited as the vehicle for dealing with climate change for the foreseeable future.”

New York City's Urban Heat Island

These several findings reveal that New York City has already experienced an urban-induced warming equivalent to what is predicted to occur by the end of the current century as a result of business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions, and that planting additional vegetation throughout the city would likely moderate its thermal environment more than all of the greenhouse-gas emissions reductions the world's governments are ever likely to make.

Is It Bad To Root for the Evil Corporation in Avatar? | GlobalWarming.org

As if the take home message-drilling/mining is wrong!-wasn’t heavy-handed enough, Cameron has one of the blue people come right out and say it: Minerals should be kept in the ground.

Stop the EPA from threatening N.D. jobs | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota

[Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D.,] It is time to end the irresponsible game of chicken being played with the future of energy regulation in this country. Those in favor of sweeping new regulations on our economy to address the issue of global warming are demanding that Congress quickly pass a “cap-and-trade” bill on greenhouse gas emissions or face a battery of new mandates to be developed and imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. This type of legislative extortion is not an appropriate strategy to pass any bill in Congress — especially a complicated and far-reaching cap-and-trade proposal that could have a dire impact on North Dakota.

Salazar and Oil Group Trade Barbs - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The war of words between the Obama administration and the oil industry continues.

Al's Journal : Great Job, Repower America Members!

Repower America members have sent more than 7,000 letters to the editor opposing Lisa Murkowski’s attempt to gut the Clean Air Act.

Evidence for Natural Climate Cycles in the IPCC Climate Models’ 20th Century Temperature Reconstructions « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

While the title of this article suggests I’ve found evidence of natural climate cycles in the IPCC models, it’s actually the temperature variability the models CANNOT explain that ends up being related to known climate cycles. After an empirical adjustment for that unexplained temperature variability, it is shown that the models are producing too much global warming since 1970, the period of most rapid growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide. This suggests that the models are too sensitive, in which case they are forecasting too much future warming, too.