Michelle Malkin » Climate Change Republican Lindsey Graham’s cap-and-tax retreat

Has Sen. Graham breathed a word about the ever-exploding ClimateGate scandal? One word? Ever?

Simulated volcanoes and man-made 'sun blocks' can rescue the planet - Science, News - The Independent

Scientists back radical 'geoengineering' projects to stop climate change

Cold weather pushes Mongolian herders into cities - Taiwan News Online

Blizzards and freezing temperatures that have killed more than a million livestock in Mongolia could force thousands of herders to migrate to shantytowns near the capital of Ulan Bator, an international aid group said Thursday.
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Mongolian government reports put the number of dead livestock at about 1 million, but some unofficial reports say the figure is closer to 2 million, Markus said, with worries more may die as freezing temperatures are forecast to last until as late as March or April.

Mongolia borders China's northwestern Xinjiang region, where the bad weather has killed 20 people, according to a Xinjiang government Web site.

More than 1.6 million people have been affected and shortages of grain and fuel have also been reported in Xinjiang, where 100,000 homes have been damaged. Continuing harsh weather has also closed fishing harbors in eastern China.

It is the harshest winter in decades in parts of northern China, with Beijing this month receiving its heaviest one-day snowfall in 59 years.

Kerry: Don’t Call It Cap-And-Trade Anymore

Well, say what you will about “cap-and-trade” — at least it rolls off the tongue easier than “a pollution reduction target with a private investment incentive for companies to be able to invest in deciding how they want to meet the pollution reduction target.”

But Republican critics of cap-and-trade have taken to calling it “cap-and-tax.” Apparently this effort is bearing fruit, as evidenced by both Kerry’s effort to drop the term “cap-and-trade” and his insistence that there “are no tax dollars” in what he is proposing.

Kerry’s claim may be technically true, but it’s still misleading. Any bill that aims to limit carbon emissions will almost certainly raise the cost of energy overall. That’s part of the point — to reduce energy consumption. But that cost will be passed on to consumers.

Global warming's Gideon: By the 300 I will save you--but Watt's Up With That?

The paper is titled, 'Suface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception?' and is available for download free at Anthony Watt's website (Watt's Up With That) by clicking here.

My main takeaway from the first reading is quite simple. Surface station measurements of temperature, when collated, adjusted and analysed, show clear signals of artificially induced error. This error may account for half of the observed warming between 1979 and 1998.