Global Warming Lunatics

What a difference a few years can make.

Phil Jones, the man who more than anyone else (besides Al Gore) was responsible for perpetuating the Man-Made Global Warming hysteria, has now conceded that, ahem, there's a tiny problem with his data. Namely, it doesn't exist.

Energy Tribune- The Melting Case For Carbon Legislation

What a difference 12 months makes.

...given the ragged state of the economy, persistently high unemployment and foreclosure rates, the suddenly much-weaker scientific case for cutting carbon dioxide emissions, and the changing balance of power in Washington, don’t count on any significant carbon emissions legislation out of Congress anytime soon. Democrats and Republicans alike are seeing political peril in imposing higher energy prices on taxpayers during the recession.

So what will happen? Expect environmental groups and the wind industry to continue pushing legislation at the state and local levels that will mandate the deployment of renewables.

National Journal Online -- Insider Interviews -- Podesta: First, Cap Emissions

NJ: Do you have confidence Congress can pass a comprehensive climate and energy bill this spring?

Podesta: I have hope [laughs]. "Confidence" would be way overstated.

U.N. climate chief resigns amid Climategate scandal

As the Climategate scandal continues to broaden and as more information is disclosed pointing to a stunning consortium of fraud, false information, and shoddy science, it is becoming clear that laws have been broken and that many nations around the world have lost billions of dollars as a result.

This fact has some critics calling for the criminal and civil prosecution of all of those involved in climate fraud and its cover-up.