[Denis Dutton on Y2K hysteria]: It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It - NYTimes.com

...turning practical problems into cosmic cataclysms takes us further away from actual solutions.

This applies, in my view, to the towering seas, storms, droughts and mass extinctions of popular climate catastrophism. Such entertaining visions owe less to scientific climatology than to eschatology, and that familiar sense that modernity and its wasteful comforts are bringing us closer to a biblical day of judgment. As that headline put it for Y2K, predictions of the end of the world are often intertwined with condemnations of human “folly, greed and denial.” Repent and recycle!

Recent global cool-down challenges validity of climate change models

As the Chicago Tribune reported, “There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That’s by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.”

[Brainwashed kid promotes scientific fraud]: Alec Vs. Global Warming: Brower Youth Awards | Free Speech TV

Alec Loorz was inspired by Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" to become an educator on the issue of climate change.

BBC News - [Brainwashed Bishop suggests that speeding will cause bad weather]

The Bishop of Reading has made a new year's appeal for people to live "more sustainably" in 2010 in a bid to tackle climate change.

The Right Rev Stephen Cottrell said that it was up to everyone to take notice as part of the future survival of the human race.

Dr Cottrell said simple steps could be taken to reduce carbon emissions - even just keeping to the speed limit.