Noted meteorologist challenges global warming theory

[Joe Bastardi] believes “proponents of the global-warming theory” tend to overlook the fact that extreme weather is not new to the nation or the world.

“My point is this: If I understand what had happened before, and I see it happen again, it gives me an advantage over someone who won't even look.”

He has little use for devotees of former Vice President Al Gore, whose Nobel Prize was for spreading the global-warming message. “I can understand not believing in God,” said Bastardi, a devout Roman Catholic. “I can't understand making Al Gore your god.”

Lawrence Solomon: France to hold official debate on climate change - FP Comment

At the suggestion of France’s science minister, Valérie Pécresse, France’s National Academy of Sciences will hold an official debate on climate change to try to defuse this newly explosive issue..

The Academy of Sciences debate, expected to be held by October of this year, follows two months of heated debate on radio and television, during which France’s two most prominent sceptics, Claude Allegre and Vincent Courtillot, have sown great doubt in the minds of a once unskeptical French public.

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Watching the Obama administration's energy policy is a lot like trying to learn stage magic. You have to learn to look where he doesn't want you to look.

Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps - TIME

According to lead author Eban Goodstein, Ph.D., over the next 40 years Arctic ice melt will take an economic toll of between $2.4 trillion and $24 trillion. Unless we change course — and fast.

Why is the melting Arctic so expensive? "The Arctic acts as the planet's air conditioner, and that function is already breaking down," says Goodstein, an economist and Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
...once released, CO2 stays in the air for at least 100 years.