EU Referendum: The Great Glacier Show – Part II

As it stands, therefore, the British government (i.e., British taxpayers) shelled out £315,277 to disprove Hasnain's claims. But, when WG II of the IPCC came to consider the issue of melting glaciers – funded by British taxpayers to the tune of £1,436,162 – it ignored the Sagarmatha report (which had also been written up in a per-reviewed journal) and went with Hasnain's not only baseless but also discredited claim.

Carbon Market Could Grow 33% This Year - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The global carbon market is expected to total $170 billion this year, a 33 percent jump from 2009, driven mostly by higher prices in Europe and a growth in the nascent carbon market in the United States, according to a new report from Point Carbon, a market analysis firm.

Obama sets aside curbing greenhouse gases in talk with House GOP - The Hill's E2-Wire

President Barack Obama avoided talking about mandatory greenhouse gas curbs that are deeply unpopular within the GOP caucus Friday at the House Republican retreat.
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On Friday, Obama avoided any specifics on emissions policy but did refer to a “serious disagreement” with Republicans that he said he hoped the Senate could help solve.



“We have to plan for the future. And the future is that clean energy -- cleaner forms of energy are going to be increasingly important. Because even if folks are still skeptical in some cases about climate change in our politics and in Congress, the world's not skeptical 
about it,” he said.

Axelrod stresses the ‘energy’ side of ‘energy and climate legislation’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

White House senior adviser David Axelrod spoke with The Hill after President Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday.

Here’s the transcript:

The Hill: There were quite a few mentions of climate change in the president’s speech.

Axelrod: I don’t know. There was a couple of paragraphs.

Can Obama Re-energize Climate? - Energy & Environment Experts

President Obama and his energy advisers would do well to ponder the conclusion that MIT’s Thomas Lee, Ben Ball, Jr., and Richard Tabors come to in Energy Aftermath, a retrospective on Carter-era energy policies:

The experience of the 1970s and 1980s taught us that if a technology is commercially viable, then government support is not needed and if a technology is not commercially viable, no amount of government support will make it so.