L. Brent Bozell III - Obama’s balloon hits the dirt

But the momentum really shifted at year’s end. The Climategate revelations of politicized science ruined Obama’s appearance at the Copenhagen global-warming summit.

Special Interests Win with Climate Legislation: Climate and Rent-Seeking | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

With literally trillions of dollars put into play by various cap-and-trade bills over the last three years, it would have been surprising if lobbying hadn’t grown by leaps and bounds.

Though initially offered as legislation to fight global-warming, the justifications for cap and trade followed the polls (from global warming to climate change to energy security to economic stimulus to green jobs to who knows what’s next) and the bills’ provisions followed the money. Effectively a huge energy tax, early proposals kept the trillions in new taxes for federal spending. In the end, the only bill to pass either house of Congress, the Waxman-Markey bill, gave virtually all of the revenue away to a grab bag of special interests.

Global Warming: Survival Of The Fittest - Forbes.com

Global warming has found a willing victim: a small patch of spruce forest in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota.

There, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will create the conditions they expect to see in a warming world. Higher levels of carbon dioxide. Warmer average temperatures. Warmer soil.

The plan is to enclose a 1,200-square-foot patch of bog in walls of plastic. Rain, snow and sunshine will be allowed in, but blowers will pump in warmer air with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide. Heaters will be sunk deep into the soil to very slowly and subtly raise the underground temperature.

The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 11th 2010

Here’s a thought, if Suzuki really believed the planet was in peril, wouldn’t having NO Olympics be the best option?

AR4 WGI Summary for Policymakers - SPM. Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

Warming of the climate system has been detected in changes of surface and atmospheric temperatures in the upper several hundred metres of the ocean, and in contributions to sea level rise. Attribution studies have established [how, specifically?] anthropogenic contributions to all of these changes. The observed pattern of tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling is very likely due to the combined influences of greenhouse gas increases and stratospheric ozone depletion.