Is Climate Change Legislation Dead?

The latest talk on the Hill has it that climate legislation has no chance this year, given the bandwidth consumed by high jobless numbers, financial reform, a healthcare debate hanging around like an unwanted in-law, and the starboard turn of 2010 electoral politics.
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Out in blogland and talk radio, the climate change debate has taken on quasi-theological overtones – angels-dancing-on-pinheads food fights about climatology esoterica that most in the political and media worlds are spectacularly unqualified to pass definitive judgment on.

[From alarmist Harry Fuller: Is he losing his religion?]: Science underlying global warming--what do we "know?"

A new study by scientists in Britain suggests that climate change theory needs to carefully re-examine the assumptions about changes in the earth’s orbital position in relation to the sun. This study says the issue of the earth’s position is crucial in determining long-term effects and climate change trends. It was not considered relevant for shorter term predictions about climate in coming decades.

The fear and farce of climate-change science - The Globe and Mail

Dr. Pachauri's book, Return to Almora , is, by his own admission, partly autobiographical, and traces the life of its protagonist, Sanjay Nath, through the bedrooms and classrooms of India and the United States, with lessons on the environment along the way.
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Celebrities also make appearances in the novel; Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine has dinner with Sanjay. Mr. Pachauri told the Indian Express that he wrote the book on international business flights. “Sometimes I'd be so overwhelmed trying to capture an incident of my life for the book that I would be moved to tears,” he told the newspaper.
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But his second career as a potboiler writer seems already well in place. He is reportedly already at work on a sequel to Return to Almora .