Climate-change legislation buried under record snowfall in capital - TheHill.com

Record snowfall has buried Washington — and along with it, buried the chances of passing global warming legislation this year.
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Democratic senators say a bill that was once a top priority for the party and for President Barack Obama cannot be dug up again during 2010.

Voters are mostly concerned with jobs and the economy. Global warming is at the bottom of their list. And now, on top of that, the paralyzing snowfalls have made the prospect of winning support for a climate bill this year even less likely.
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Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said the blizzards that have shut down Congress have made it more difficult to argue that global warming is an imminent danger.
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“Where’s Al Gore when we need him?” quipped Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who burst out laughing when asked about the prospect of passing cap-and-trade legislation Tuesday while the city was still digging out.

Some Senate Democrats dismiss the role snow has played in the debate, but they acknowledge there is growing consensus that global warming legislation will not pass in the 111th Congress.

“I don’t think that the climate change with cap-and-trade is going to pass this year,” said Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who as Budget chairman is putting together Congress’s annual estimate of how much revenue the government will collect next year and in future years.
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Senior administration officials do not seem enthusiastic to battle with Congress over climate change.
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“I think that there’s a general understanding that maybe cap-and-trade is dead,” said Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), a member of the Energy and Natural Resources panel, after Senate Democrats held a retreat last week.

New research into greenhouse effect challenges theory of man-made global warming

A former NASA contractor whose theory demonstrating that the greenhouse effect is constant and self-regulating and that increases in human CO2 emissions are not the source of global warming is fighting an uphill battle to publish his controversial work.

Developed by prominent atmospheric physicist Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, the new theory is enormously significant because it demolishes the prevailing doctrine of anthropogenic greenhouse warming (AGW), which blames humans for pumping CO2 into the atmosphere and triggering runaway global warming that could eventually lead to catastrophic climate change.

Do We Finally Have Proof that Global Warming by CO2 Emissions is a Hoax? » Publications » Family Security Matters

Recently, NASA Director James Hansen was challenged by Hungarian Physicist Dr. Miklos Zagoni and Dianna Cotter, a Contributing Editor to FamilySecurityMatters.org, to release the raw numbers data Hansen used to report that 2009 was the warmest year on record. NASA incorrectly states that our surface atmosphere can hold infinite amounts of heat. Instead, the discovery of Atmospheric Equilibrium by Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi proves Global Warming by CO2 emissions a hoax.

The challenge can be found in this open letter to Dr. Hansen, made public by the authors for the first time.

You ready?: Survivor winner gives tips for surviving the storm | Washington Examiner

If you get buried under a mountain of snow, don't panic. Panicking will only make it harder to use your iPhone to Tweet bitterly about how all those pointyheads got it wrong on global warming before you lose consciousness.

US warns China against 'stillborn' climate deal | My Sinchew

[Todd Stern] accused unspecified "rabble-rousers" of trying to scuttle the conference. Under the rules of the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change, all agreements must have consensus for approval.
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Stern called for open scientific dialogue but said he had little doubt that human activity was heating up the planet.

"It's obviously not useful when mistakes are made, but the overwhelming body of evidence [like what, specifically?] is not at all disturbed by those events," he said.