Global Warming Hysteria: Common Sense Beginning to Grow Out of the Ashes » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Global warming hysteria is collapsing of its own hubris and ideological machinations. Whether or not carbon and other emissions are causing some warming, the movement was always more about politics–the establishment of an international governing technocracy, allowing favored insider to feast at the sumptuous table of grants and handouts, and frankly, taking the USA down a peg through radical wealth redistribution–as much as it was about the climate.

Washingtonpost.com - Snow, more snow, global warming

singleseatbiggermeat wrote, "For the sake of posterity -- if not accuracy -- please don't use the National Weather Service totals from National Airport any longer. I quick review of the official NWS totals from every county and city within 25 miles of DCA shows that the lowest measured amount -- by close to 10% - is DCA. Amazingly, just 3-4 miles away the NWS reported 28" away in Ballston. 18" at DCA? Officials in DC, Virginia, and Maryland WISH it were 18"!" [Bob Ryan's been making the same point on Channel 4.]

When Coal Flows Between Countries, Who ‘Owns’ the CO2? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

["Real"Climate alarmist] Raymond T. Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago sent the note appended below several days ago and I thought it worth featuring as a “Your Dot” contribution to stimulate discussion of an important question in the climate challenge. Once emitted, carbon dioxide is a “ globally well mixed gas” that knows no borders. Every year, commerce becomes increasingly “globally well mixed” as well. So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or…?

[Pierrehumbert] We’re quite happy to sell China the rope with which they’ll (help us) hang the world’s formerly equable climate, and all of us with it.

Can you really hang anyone with trace amounts of carbon dioxide?