Osama Bin Laden Favors Kyoto Protocol, Environmentalism

Bottom line here is that environmentalism, right from beginning, has always been about constraining and restricting America's economic and military activity. It has provided the U.N., and more recently the E.U., with ability to attack American independence and sovereignty on the sly.

"Even Bin Laden recognizes the inherent propaganda and potential destructiveness to the U.S. of the entire global warming movement," Climate Depot's Marc Morano observed. "Soon, only a few fringe political figures -- like Bin Laden -- will still spout the nonsense climate claims that were once accepted as mainstream."

Update: NASA could be trading a ticket to the moon for climate change [swindle] research and monitoring

...the current administration, after reviewing the cost of the proposed space ventures, has decided to direct NASA’s effort to more earthly pursuits.

They include additional research and monitoring of global climate change.

Global warming makes trees grow at fastest rate for 200 years - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

Forests in the northern hemisphere could be growing faster now than they were 200 years ago as a result of climate change, according to a study of trees in eastern America.

The trees appear to have accelerated growth rates due to longer growing seasons and higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Trees 'grow faster due to global warming' - Telegraph

In one forest studied by researchers an extra 1.8 tonnes of timber per acre is appearing each year.

The trees, in the US state of Maryland, are sprouting up more quickly than at any time in the past 225 years, say the scientists.

Climate-Change Accord Wins Support, Falls Short on Goals - TIME

It's also looking unlikely that the U.S. Senate will pass carbon-capping legislation anytime soon — Obama lost a key vote for cap and trade when Republican Scott Brown won the late Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in a special election in Massachusetts — and that could potentially invalidate the U.S. Copenhagen pledge and throw the continuing international climate talks into further disarray.

Climate Change: Explaining the IPCC's Key Missteps - Alarmist Bryan Walsh - TIME

There is no debate about the core urgency, says Peter Frumhoff, director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Still, there's always the risk of groupthink, of the marginalization of dissenting views, in a body as big as the IPCC — something critics of the group have complained about for some time.