Climate [hoax] bill could face threats from left - The Hill's E2-Wire

Case in point: The Sierra Club’s new executive director is warning that the powerful environmental group will fight the legislation if the concessions to industry pile up too high.

“There are things that would cause the Club to oppose the bill, and there are several trigger points for us,” said Michael Brune, who took over as the venerable group’s executive director this month, in an interview with The Hill.

Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch? [Because of trace amounts of carbon dioxide] Earth has entered new age of geological time, "experts" say

ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2010) — Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner -- who suggest that Earth has entered a new age of geological time.

The Age of Aquarius? Not quite -- It's the Anthropocene Epoch, say the scientists writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

And they add that the dawning of this new epoch may include the sixth largest mass extinction in Earth's history.

Flashback: Man's Impact On The Planet Brings About New Epoch In Earth's History

ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2008) — Geologists from the University of Portsmouth are proposing that humankind has so changed the earth that it has brought about an end to one epoch of earth’s history and marked the start of another. They believe that human dominance has so physically altered the earth that the Holocene epoch has ended and we have entered a new epoch - the Anthropocene.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Climate [fraud] prof: 'I'm a skeptic' - mcall.com

Penn State global warming scientist Michael E. Mann regrets he did not instantly object when a fellow climatologist asked him in 2008 to delete e-mails subject to Freedom of Information requests.
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And in a wide-ranging interview, Mann says that not all global warming science is settled. It's not yet certain, for example, that the heat is reducing the world population of polar bears or that it increases the number of hurricanes, he said.

But he said there is almost no doubt the last half of the 20th century was the hottest 50-year period of the last millennium. That conclusion is reflected in Mann's famous 1,000-year ''hockey stick'' chart of temperatures.

''There have been warming trends and cooling trends in the past,'' Mann said. ''Over the past 50 years, there has only been a warming trend. Contrarians cannot point to a sustained period -- a 20- or 30-year period -- of cooling over the past 50 years. If they could, you can be sure we would have heard about it.''
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But in the interview with The Morning Call, Mann says at least a dozen studies have replicated his work and confirmed his conclusions.

''The more relevant question scientifically is whether our findings have been independently verified by independent teams using alternative methods and alternative data sources,'' he said. ''And the answer is definitively yes.''

Stephen McIntyre, a Mann critic, disagrees.
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''With our Virginia winter, we'd lose our Pennsylvania skiing and our Pennsylvania maple syrup,'' he said. ''And other problems, like new infectious diseases, eventually rear their heads. We don't have tropical diseases here in Pennsylvania because of the killing winter frosts, which kill disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes.''

Flashback: Mosquitos, malaria and the IPCC "consensus" « Climate Audit

In fact, the most catastrophic epidemic on record anywhere in the world occurred in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, with a peak incidence of 13 million cases per year, and 600,000 deaths. Transmission was high in many parts of Siberia, and there were 30,000 cases and 10,000 deaths due to falciparum infection (the most deadly malaria parasite) in Archangel, close to the Arctic circle. Malaria persisted in many parts of Europe until the advent of DDT. One of the last malarious countries in Europe was Holland: the WHO finally declared it malaria-free in 1970.