Climate change is no joke - chicagotribune.com

[Evan Hewer] There is no downside to adopting green technologies.

DailyTech - India Blasts Industrialized Nations' "Pathetic" Global Warming Promises

He vents, "We can do so much consistent with maintaining our development priorities. Beyond this, it is going to cost tens of billions of dollars. The upper end of the commitments will take us to a peaking of global emissions by about 2020, maybe a bit later."

Barrett calls for scaling back global-warming measure - JSOnline

Middleton - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said lawmakers should scale back a global warming bill as he campaigned Thursday for the Democratic nomination for governor.

Tenn. GOP candidates slam environmental regulators - Forbes.com

Ramsey and Wamp also criticized Democratic-led efforts in Congress to limit carbon emissions in an effort to fight climate change.

"This is the coldest winter we've had," Wamp said. "Global warming needs to be based on solid science, evidence and consensus. We're not there yet."

Ramsey said burdens shouldn't be placed on business because of "emotional" environmental issues.

A Hard Week on the Planet

Suffice to say that the skeptics do not exactly have a hard sell in the rest of the media. The number of reporters, pundits, and television pontificators who actually understand the science of global warming is infinitesimal, but the number of those who enjoy staking out an “edgy” or contrarian position for the hell of it is undoubtedly infinite.
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Eric Alterman is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College. He is also a Nation columnist and a professor of journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.