Duke Energy lobbies for cap-and-trade while warning customers of cold weather  | GlobalWarming.org

While Duke Energy’s Chairman, CEO, and President, James Rogers, spends millions of dollars of his customers’ money lobbying for cap-and-trade on Capitol Hill, the company’s web page for its South Carolina customers is passing along tips on how to handle cold weather. Shouldn’t Duke Energy be warning its customers how much more they are going to have to pay to Duke Energy in higher electric rates if Congress passes the cap-and-trade legislation that Duke Energy supports?

When Skeptics Attack « The Daily Bayonet

[see the post for links] The Guardian seems to have forgotten that leading climate alarmists called for skeptics to face criminal charges, or worse:

    * James Hansen of NASA wanted trials for climate skeptics, accusing them of ‘high crimes against humanity‘
    * Robert Kennedy Jr. called climate skeptics ‘traitors’
    * Yvo de Boer of the UN called climate skepticism ‘criminally irresponsible’
    * David Suzuki called for politicians who ignore climate ’science’ to be jailed
    * DeSmogBlog’s James Hoggan wants skeptics treated as war criminals (video)
    * Grist called for ‘Nuremberg trials’ for skeptics
    * Emo-Joe Romm wanted skeptics strangled in their beds
    * A blogger at TPM pondered when it would be acceptable to execute climate ‘deniers’
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It’s not so much fun when the shoe is on the other foot, is it hippies?

Kerry, Swift Boat backer meet - POLITICO.com Print View

Pickens and two aides slipped unnoticed into Kerry’s office in the Russell Senate Office Building on Feb. 9th just after a massive winter storm that buried the Capitol under more than 2 feet of snow and shuttered most government offices.

In an hour-long meeting that was extended to accommodate Senate votes, Kerry, Graham, Lieberman and Pickens discussed “several alternative energies and the economic benefits of comprehensive climate and energy legislation,” said the Senate staffer, who said there was no discussion of the bitter past between Pickens and Kerry.

33 historical Climate Change scares | CLIMATEGATE

Kirk Meyers at the Seminole County Environmental News Examiner lists 33 tales, during the past 140 years, describing climate changes, and often predicting catastrophic cooling or warming. Here are five of our favorites:

* “The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot” - Washington Post story published Nov. 2, 1922
* Headline: “America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-year Rise” – New York Times, March 27, 1933
* “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half . . . .” – Life magazine, January 1970
* “In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.” – Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day, 1970
* Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor, “the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” – Newsweek magazine, Jan. 26, 1970