McCarthyists win: Plimer muzzled and Prince Philip thwarted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

McCarthyism? If Hamilton wants an example of the most common form of it today, he should read this astonishing exchange of emails between the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and Professor Ian Plimer, the sceptic and author of Heaven and Earth:

Al's Journal : 63,000 [Orchestrated] Calls in 72 Hours

Congratulations to all the members of Repower America who made more than 63,000 calls to their Senators last week.

Everyday we are moving closer and closer to passing climate and green jobs legislation and that is due to your efforts. I’ll be calling on you to take action again in the next few weeks, and I know you’ll come through.

News - Europe: Schools closed as snow blankets Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain - Heavy snowfalls pounded north-eastern Spain on Monday, knocking out power, cancelling flights and forcing the closure of schools in Barcelona and the surrounding area, officials said.

Accumulations of up to 50cm of snow were forecast for the worst affected areas of Catalonia, prompting the regional government to cancel classes for over 142 000 students at 476 public schools.

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It snowed big time in Barcelona today. People were off work drinkin to celebrate climate change and fluffy snow fall.

Global warming doubts could hamper climate legislation / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

“In the US, it’s going to be more difficult [to pass climate legislation] than it might have been a year ago,” says Adil Najam, a lead author of two IPCC reports and the director of Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. “The same legislation is going to find more opposition, because the political mood has changed.”

How the British Establishment is conspiring to prop up the AGW myth – Telegraph Blogs

As Plimer puts it: “Strange that those who preach environmentalism at The Palace are feted as concerned scientists with no political agenda whereas those that try to speak rationality are regarded as political.”

CARPE DIEM: 40 Years Later: Air Quality Has Never Been Better

MP: Here we are 40 years later, the U.S. population has increased by more than 50%, traffic volume (miles driven) in the U.S. has increased 160%, and real GDP has increased 204%; and yet air quality in the U.S. is better than ever - nitrous dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and lead have all decreased between 46% and 92% between 1980 and 2008 (see chart).