"Racist, sexist" global warming denier may become editor of The Independent - Allison Kilkenny - Unreported - True/Slant

London Evening Standard owner, Alexander Lebedev’s, understood favorite is Rod Liddle, a former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and a notorious racist and sexist global warming denier. Should Lebedev purchase The Independent in the next few weeks as sources claim he is ready to do, it appears Liddle is his number one candidate for heading the paper.

2007: Getting all hot and bothered about global warming | Rod Liddle - Times Online

The Washington Post recently quoted the following from a scientist speaking in 1972: “We simply cannot afford to gamble. We cannot risk inaction. The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored.”

This chap, though, was talking about global cooling - which was the apocalyptic consensus 35 years ago. In the past 100 years or so the scientific consensus has twice held that the earth is definitely cooling (1895-1930 and then 1968-75) and twice that it is instead warming up (1930-60 and 1981 to the present). In almost every case it has been our fault and something has been needed to be done about it.

Joe Keefe: The Chamber of Commerce and Climate Change

The Chamber of Commerce is dead wrong on climate change, and dead wrong on cap-and-trade legislation. The Chamber may speak for a small subset of the business community, but it does not speak for the business community as a whole. Its agenda seems to be more of a political agenda than a business agenda. By contrast, many local chambers of commerce across the country, being more practical and less ideological, clearly understand the economics of addressing climate change and are hard at work on local strategies.

Putting a price on carbon and capping emissions will not only help avert the costs of a looming climate disaster but will make businesses more efficient and help catalyze a green technology revolution; it will benefit businesses, investors, consumers, and the planet.

This is global warming? | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/10/2010

So what happened to global warming? "Climategate" notwithstanding, the data suggest that the planet continues to toast subtly - but on the order of tenths of degrees, hardly enough to snuff out winter as we know it, said Gadomski. "No human being on earth experiences the global average temperature," he said. "Even if we're warming, it doesn't cancel the cold."
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Montana has been in the icy thick of it for weeks. In most places it was the coldest December since 1983, said Ben Schott, a meteorologist at the Great Falls office.

The cold there was somewhat of a surprise because a strong El Niño, an unusual warming of the tropical Pacific, had erupted in October. Typically, an El Niño winter means relative warmth in Montana. In their winter outlook, Halpert and his Climate Prediction Center colleagues called for all of Montana to be above normal this winter.

"A lot of people are screaming, 'El Niño, where are you now?' " Schott said.

Snow flurries spotted in South Florida [with video and slideshow]

Did it happen? Did it snow in South Florida on Saturday afternoon?

The National Weather Service in Miami on Saturday night was investigating nearly a dozen reports from West Palm Beach on down to Kendall from weather observers who said they saw snow flurries mixed in with the rain that fell in the afternoon, said meteorologist Joel Rothfuss. Some of those reports were in Broward.