American Thinker: Global Warming and Cold War Thinking

China sees climate change as another opportunity to help topple the United States from global preeminence, which remains its primary strategic goal in world politics.

Coldest winter for half century (as you may have suspected) - Scotsman.com News

SCOTLAND shivered this year in the second-coldest winter ever recorded.
Met Office statistics reveal that only the winter of 1963 was colder than the temperatures in Scotland between December 2009 and February 2010.

And for northern Scotland it was actually the coldest since records began in 1914.

The Hockey Schtick: Sea Level Decrease 1992-2009 Along Most of West Coast of North & South America

Plotting the global mean sea level (MSL) trends (from multi-satellite mission data) over almost 17 years from Oct 1992 - July 2009 shows a decrease in mean sea levels along most of the west coast of North & South America of approximately 50 mm or 5 cm during that period.

[But he's not even an economist!]: Green Left - James Hansen and climate [insanity]

His warning is that if business-as-usual pollution continues, it will soon trigger climate feedbacks that would lead to catastrophic, runaway climate change.
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He said a tax of about $115 per tonne of carbon dioxide, levelled on a national basis, would be enough to prompt a rapid phase-out of fossil fuel use and make carbon-free energy alternatives far more attractive.

Hansen said the funds raised by the tax should be returned directly to the population — a monthly “green cheque” to compensate for price rises. He estimated this would leave most people better off financially.