Did Global Warming Save Ancient Rome? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

A panel has been convened to examine the above. The conclusion is that it is more likely than not that evil Exxon has helped emit greenhouse gases for the one reason of defending Ancient Rome from Hannibal.

Congenital Climate Abnormalities « Watts Up With That?

[Willis Eschenbach] The answer is, there is no unusual warming. There is no anomaly. There is nothing strange or out of the ordinary about the recent warming. It is in no way distinguishable from earlier periods of warming, periods that we know were not due to rising CO2. There is nothing in the record that is in any way different from the centuries-long natural fluctuations in the global climate.

In other words, we have spent billions of dollars and wasted years of work chasing a chimera, a will-of-the-wisp. This is why none of the CO2 explanations have held water … simply because there is nothing unusual to explain.

NOAA and the New "Climategate" Scandal

The failure of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to produce a binding treaty has bought time for a rational reassessment of the entire “science” behind the theories that were the premise for gathering 192 nations in Copenhagen. However, participation in the Copenhagen Accord still poses an imminent threat to the economic vitality of the industrialized world at a time when the economies of many of those nations are already reeling in the midst of recession. The scandals have laid bare what now appears to many observers to have been a “rush to judgment.” It is time for cooler heads to reevaluate global warming.

2 Views, 1 'Climategate' Rally On Penn State Campus - News Story - WJAC Johnstown

National Wildlife Federation member Ed Perry told WJAC-TV Friday that the international coverage on the story is damaging Mann's professional reputation.

"He's well respected in the science community and this group is doing nothing more than assassinating the character of one of Pennsylvania's finest climate scientists," said Perry.

Group to lead by example with cap-and-trade system

Still, Schwarzenegger and the others stressed the need for a national plan.

"If we all link together, this could be a very successful thing," he said. "Cap and trade is where the action is."