Climate Crime: Phishing Scam Cripples European Emissions Trading - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Sneaky cyber-thieves have made millions by fraudulently obtaining European greenhouse gas emissions allowances and reselling them. The scam has hampered trading of the credits, which are seen as an important tool in curbing climate change, in several European countries.

» Bluff and Bluster: The Real Story Behind EPA Regulating Greenhouse Gases (Part 2) - Big Journalism

So, when spring arrives and somebody in the old media uses the occasion of a heretofore obscure USEPA regulatory action to wag his finger and warn you that this is the reason we need cap and trade now, remember: you heard it here first. And like most environmental crises, this one is just more smoke and mirrors.

Save the Planet: Make Your Own Soda [by deliberately injecting an alleged "pollutant" into your drink]

[video] I became slightly less unpersuaded when she said "add vodka"

Flashback: Solomon compares CO2 with nuclear waste

“We have to think about [carbon dioxide] much more like nuclear waste than, like say, smog or acid rain,” explains one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Can Global Warming Be Reborn? - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest

For what it’s worth, here’s how I think the movement to fight climate change could recover and relaunch.

First, don’t circle the wagons. The IPCC and the East Anglia Climate Research Unit are, from a PR point of view, toast. Environmental leaders, groups and scientists in the United States need to get out front denouncing the misconduct, demanding full investigations and accounting, and disassociating themselves from the individuals, institutions and claims that threaten to drown the whole field in a wave of undifferentiated skepticism and revulsion.

FOXNews.com - Obama's Secret Slush Fund

President Obama and Budget Director Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change hidden inside the administration's 2011 budget.

Our licence fees pay for climate denial | Sunny Hundal | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Let me start by saying I believe that man-made activity is the prime driver behind global warming. I don't have time for tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy nuts who think it is one big plot by scientists across the world. I do believe CC deniers are no different to 9/11 Truthers.

Sunny Hundal | guardian.co.uk

In 2006 he was voted Guardian blogger of the year. An ardent environmentalist and an unashamed lefty-liberal, he is vegetarian and cares strongly about the oppression of people and degradation of nature.

Solar Cycle 24 Update « Watts Up With That?

[David Archibald] With Solar Cycle 23 ending up at twelve and a half years long, applying Friis-Christenson and Lassen theory to the temperature record of Hanover, New Hampshire results in a two degree centigrade decline in the annual average temperature at this location over the expected twelve years of Solar Cycle 24, from December 2009 to late 2021. Given some record low monthly averages in the northeast US in the recent summer, and the current cold winter, this cooling is well under way.

Canada's Iqaluit, Capital of Arctic Nunavit Province, Prepares Warm Welcome for G-7 Finance Ministers - WSJ.com

Because there are no roads leading to Iqaluit—it was little more than an airstrip for decades—all attendees, equipment and vehicles will have to fly or be flown in. Boats can approach only when seas thaw in the summer and early fall.