Out Of US Climate Action Partnership: BP America, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar

[From] an emailed statement from CEI's Myron Ebell:

In dropping out of the U. S. Climate Action Partnership, BP America, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar are recognizing that cap-and-trade legislation is dead in the U. S. Congress and that global warming alarmism is collapsing rapidly. We hope that other major corporations will soon see the light and drop their support for cap-and-trade and other energy-rationing legislation.

Climate Alarmism Acknowledges Doubt - Rich Lowry - National Review Online

The global-warming crowd admits the science isn’t “settled.”
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Climate alarmists conjured a world where nothing was certain but death, taxes, and catastrophic global warming. They used this presumed scientific certainty as a bludgeon against the skeptics they deemed “deniers,” a word meant to have the noxious whiff of Holocaust denial.

All in the cause of hustling the world into a grand carbon-rationing scheme. Any questions about the evidence for the cataclysmic projections, any concerns about the costs and benefits, were trumped by that fearsome scientific “consensus,” which had “settled” the important questions.

IPCC scaremongering is destroying its credibility | Bjorn Lomborg - The Australian

There are numerous other examples of similar shenanigans by Working Group II. Yet, aside from a grudging admission that its predictions about Himalayan glaciers were "poorly substantiated", the IPCC has yet to acknowledge, much less apologise for, any of the lapses.

If the IPCC is to do its job properly, it must own up to all of its missteps and clean house. Nobody expects it to be infallible. But neither should we tolerate its attempts to scare policymakers rather than inform them.

The American Spectator : A Disgrace to Science

COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY oil company money corrupts and government money does not? The government has now spent about $25 billion of our money in promoting climate scares. Oil companies have been reduced, pathetically, to telling us how “green” they are. By the way, climate change used to be called global warming. But the globe has not warmed over the past decade, even by the warmists’ inflated numbers. So they relabeled it, and climate “change” will be confirmed by whatever happens.

Dana Joel Gattuso: Global Warming's "science" has become a blizzard of contradictions | Washington Examiner

Amid the swirl of contradictory expert opinion, however, is a growing body of work among (yes, peer-reviewed) climate scientists that attributes the recent extreme winter weather to natural and cyclical changes in ocean temperatures, called ocean oscillations. According to Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute, a distinguished climatologist and a lead author of the IPCC Report - and not one that wears the "skeptic" label - we are entering a cold period that "may well last two decades or longer."