Forgive me, Planet, for I have flown. Frequently.

Some wonder if the environmental and climate change movements are becoming a new religion. If so, are "carbon offsets" a new form of indulgences? You pay to have your environmental sins forgiven?

Recently Seattle based outdoor equipment retailer, REI, has come under fire for its efforts to offset its carbon footprint. Critics complain that REI's sins, caused by its travel business, are actually growing even if the purchase of carbon offsets is some sort of atonement. In other words, a carbon-offsets program may simply allow the sinner to continue in their unrepentant ways and unredeemed life. That was among Luther's complaints about the abuse of indulgences way back when.

For want of a shim: Rutland Herald Online

We wish Toyota well. The company's fuel-efficient cars have done much to slow global warming...

Clone Pachauri, 'great fan' Schwarzenegger suggests to India

NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (IANS): Cloning might not be legal at present but if ever it is, then India should clone "a 100,000" RK Pachauris, insists Hollywood star-turned-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who is a great admirer of the climate warrior.

NC Media Watch: It's about time: Schwarzenegger turns more critical of environmental laws

I think that the Governor is starting to get it! He is finding out that an unelected State Fish and Game employee, who attends the church of environmentalism, has more power than he does if his Fish and Game staffer chooses to delay projects and obstruct economic development to protect an imaginary squirrel. Time to make some changes - Repeal AB32 and all CARB implementing administrative rulings.

Investigation into climate scientist prompts feds to question taxpayer funding

On the Senate side, Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, called on the National Science Foundation to conduct its own investigation to, “examine possible violations of federal laws and policies governing taxpayer-funded research.”

Inhofe called attention to the recent rash of errors that were discovered in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climage Change’s AR4 climate report. “We need to reassure the American people that their tax dollars are supporting objective scientific research rather than political agendas," he said.

ETS costs remain a mystery to Labor | The Australian

THE Rudd government has failed its first GST-style test over the details of its emissions trading scheme and the compensation being offered to Australians for rising prices.

Lulled into a sense of false security through Coalition support for an ETS last year and a largely sympathetic media, Kevin Rudd and his ministers have found themselves ill-equipped and under-prepared to answer basic questions people want answered, whether they are climate change believers or sceptics.

After three years of Labor being formally committed to an ETS, ministers can't answer simple questions. The Prime Minister himself has conceded the government has failed to address the "complexity" of the ETS.