Quadrant Online - Pachauri's voodoo science

[John Izzard] It was as though a sort of "we-are-on-to-you.com" email hit their modelling computers. Suddenly the world changed and “chief scientists” around the world began emerging from their hibernation and started to say very chief-scientisty, re-assuring things. In the UK last week, their Chief Scientist John Bennington suddenly announced that climate sceptics “should not been dismissed”. He was immediately followed by Australia’s chief scientist Penny D. Sackett, who with an absolute straight face came out of nowhere to call for, yep, “an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions about the rate of climate change.”

C3: What Causes Atmospheric CO2 Growth Rates To Change? Human CO2 Emissions or Natural Phenomenon?

Although humans indeed are adding CO2 to the atmosphere, the real force that is driving both CO2 growth rates and temperature changes is mostly natural phenomenon, including ENSO. Both El Niño and La Niña are powerful climatic conditions that create ocean and atmospheric conditions that swamp the small impact of humans adding CO2 to the biosphere.

Cap and trade puts vulnerable Democrats on defense - Louis Jacobson - POLITICO.com

As the bill awaits Senate action, Republicans believe they have a winning issue.

“The bill may be stopped dead in its tracks, but this vote will still haunt them until Election Day,” said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Paul Lindsay.

Momentum For Clean Coal Conversion Burning Out - CNBC

President Obama’s recent public support of clean coal and his waning interest in cap-and-trade legislation may not be enough to save the American coal industry from a perfect storm of competitive technology, stricter regulation and growing obsolescence.