Saturday, April 17, 2010

PowerPoint slides from Dr. Willie Soon’s Congressional staff briefing held in DC on April 13, 2010 | Climate Realists
In 2007 the Supreme Court commented that “greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of air pollutant.” In this presentation, Dr. Soon will discuss why atmospheric CO2 is not an “air pollutant”. Three points of discussion will be:

(1) CO2 is not an air pollutant,

(2) Ocean acidification claims are exaggerated,

(3) The magical CO2 control knob idea “to save the world” is essentially dead.
The 2007 IPCC report falls well short of its advertising
"People can have confidence in the IPCC's conclusions…Given that it is all on the basis of peer-reviewed literature." - Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman, June 2008
GOP gov. candidates debate climate change, kicker - Portland, Oregon | Local & Regional
Both Alley and Dudley said they believe in climate change [who doesn't?] but didn’t go so far as to blame humankind.
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Lim, a former state legislator, said he does believe global warming is happening but he does not blame human activity.
[Wisconsin: Climate swindle bill "in trouble"] - JSOnline
Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker (D-Wausau) said Friday he doesn't think there are enough votes in the Senate to support the current version of a bill that would control carbon emissions and require more use of renewable energy sources.
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The legislative leader's comments are a sign that the bill - a linchpin in the agendas of Gov. Jim Doyle and a coalition of businesses and environmentalists - is in trouble.
[This didn't get much publicity, did it?]
On April 15 and 16, energy ministers from across the Western Hemisphere, including U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, gathered in Washington D.C. for the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas.

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