Dana Milbank - Global warming's snowball fight - washingtonpost.com

Still, there's some rough justice in the conservatives' cheap shots. In Washington's blizzards, the greens were hoisted by their own petard.

For years, climate-change activists have argued by anecdote to make their case. Gore, in his famous slide shows, ties human-caused global warming to increasing hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought and the spread of mosquitoes, pine beetles and disease. It's not that Gore is wrong about these things. The problem is that his storm stories have conditioned people to expect an endless worldwide heat wave, when in fact the changes so far are subtle.

Other environmentalists have undermined the cause with claims bordering on the outlandish; they've blamed global warming for shrinking sheep in Scotland, more shark and cougar attacks, genetic changes in squirrels, an increase in kidney stones and even the crash of Air France Flight 447. When climate activists make the dubious claim, as a Canadian environmental group did, that global warming is to blame for the lack of snow at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, then they invite similarly specious conclusions about Washington's snow -- such as the Virginia GOP ad urging people to call two Democratic congressmen "and tell them how much global warming you get this weekend."

Argument-by-anecdote isn't working.
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The science is overwhelming -- but not definitive. Romm's claim was inadvertently shot down by his partner on the call, the Weather Underground's Jeff Masters, who confessed that "there's a huge amount of natural variability in the climate system" and not enough years of measurements to know exactly what's going on. "Unfortunately we don't have that data so we are forced to make decisions based on inadequate data."

Exceptionally cold weather sending utility bills soaring

The bigger bills are even harder to swallow for hundreds of thousands of North Texas residents hit with power outages because of a record snowfall that sent tree limbs crashing onto power lines.

In parts of Oncor's sprawling service territory -- notably the Killeen and Temple areas in Central Texas -- electric customers jolted by big power bills have questioned the accuracy of digital "smart meters" that have been installed in recent months there.

Rubio questions climate change

In an interview with the Tribune on that subject Friday, Rubio called Crist "a believer in man-made global warming."

"I don't think there's the scientific evidence to justify it," Rubio said.

Asked whether he accepts the scientific evidence that the global climate is undergoing change, he responded, "The climate is always changing. The climate is never static. The question is whether it's caused by man-made activity and whether it justifies economically destructive government regulation."

[It's a long bike ride from Tennessee]: Al Gore to appear at Barbara Boxer L.A. fundraiser this Saturday

The location of Saturday's event is not disclosed on Boxer's websites, but Variety reported that the Boxer fundraiser with Gore will be held at the home of Laurie David. David, ex-wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David, has a website which describes her as a "global warming activist". A message at the website states "The time has come to unite all Americans to stop the single greatest threat facing us today". David has been fined in the past for 'wetland violations' at her Martha’s Vineyard home.

AFP: Microsoft co-founder Gates [promotes the greatest scientific fraud in human history, *after* it's been publicly exposed in detail]

LONG BEACH, California — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has broken from philanthropic work fighting poverty and disease to take on another threat to the world's poor -- climate change.

"Energy and climate are extremely important to these people," Gates told Friday a TED Conference audience packed with influential figures including the founders of Google and climate champion Al Gore.

"The climate getting worse means many years that crops won't grow from too much rain or not enough, leading to starvation and certainly unrest."
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"The formula is a very straight forward one," Gates said. "More carbon dioxide equals temperature increase equals negative effects like collapsed ecosystems. We have to get to zero."
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Gates said that if he were allowed a single wish in the coming 50 years, it would be a global "zero carbon" culture.
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Gates dismissed climate change skeptics, saying terrapower would render arguments moot because the energy produced would be cheaper than pollution-spewing methods used today.

"The skeptics will accept it because it is cheaper," Gates said. "The might wish it did put out CO2, but they will take it."
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"These next few months represent the last feasible political window for quite some time to get this done," Gore said. "So much is at stake we have to double down."