Anti-warming scam at work in NY - NYPOST.com

This drill has been run already in 33 states, from Alaska to Florida. Behind most of those efforts -- and now New York's -- is the Center for Climate Strategies, a Washington-based warming-alarmist group that lobbies governors to use its services.

The nonprofit usually collects about a half-million dollars each time it's hired -- some from state coffers, but more from such wealthy activist foundations as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

In state after state, CCS signs on as "technical experts" -- dispassionate "facilitators" assisting a "stakeholder process." In fact, it winds up exerting total control over the climate panel's process -- running the meetings, limiting the menu of acceptable ideas and prohibiting discussion of science.

Politically Speaking, Populist Isn’t Popular, But Conservative Is - Rasmussen Reports™

Forty percent (40%) of U.S. voters view being described politically as a conservative as a positive description. That’s up eight points from last September and even up three from just after the November 2008 election. Sixteen percent (16%) say conservative is a negative description, and 43% put it somewhere in between negative and positive.

In distant second place in terms of popularity is the political description progressive. Twenty-two percent (22%) now view that as a positive description, but that’s a 10-point drop from September and down 18 points from November 2008. For 35%, progressive is a political negative, and 36% place it somewhere in between.
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For 14%, being described as a political liberal is a positive, but 39% see it as a negative and 45% think it’s somewhere in between.

What are the chances of a cap-and-trade system being established in the U.S. this year? | Grist

Odds on cap-and-trade getting through by the end of 2011 are now at 25 percent, an all-time low.

Four stories that should have changed the media narrative ... but didn’t | Grist

What will it take? One answer to that question is: a green progressive media machine that can match the right’s. Though progressive media is incredibly robust compared to a few years ago, it still can’t do for green messaging what the right does for fear mongering: get everyone on the same page to pound home a story. Watch what the right is doing with the IPCC’s woes—every single blog, newspaper, and cable channel is pounding the crap out of it. Next week they’ll have moved onto something else, but when they grab something, they can force it to the top. Progressives, by contrast, are all over the place, each being precious and clever and unique like a snowflake, which is good for their self-image but not so good from a broader communications perspective.