What happened to global warming?

"Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can't have been caused by solar activity," said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees.

He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.

Twitter / Robin Leach

Ironies of ironies. Both Sarah Palin & Al Gore will be in Las Vegas area March 27 !

Twitter / Adam Sherwood

The Libs plan to spend $3.2bn on climate change yet only half of them believe in it. If all of them were onboard would it cost $6.4bn?

Traitors to the Cause - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online

Oh, phooey. To take up your dreary analogy, we're staying in our seats enjoying the show while the environmental correspondents run for the exits shrieking ever more hysterically. If you want to flee in terror and roll around in the snow trying to put out imaginary flames, by all means take as long as you like, and then, when the fever passes, feel free to come back in dripping wet. But it's a bit of a stretch to call me a liar when you're the one insisting your pants are on fire.

Climate dominates Australian politics

MOTTRAM: But by setting no cap on national carbon emissions, and by handing out taxpayers funds as incentives for adopting low carbon technologies, rather than opting for a carbon trading market, Mr Abbott has quickly attracted criticism. The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.

RUDD: This climate con job is a fail, fail, fail. That is the bottom line when you contrast the two schemes. Mr Speaker, it doesn't work, it slugs taxpayers instead of polluters and on top of that, it's unfunded.

[Will Steger's embarrassing "Global Warming 101" web site now seems to be missing in action.  Is it gone for good?]