American Thinker Blog: The Heartland Climate Conference Smear Campaign Begins

So while Heartland is as oil-free as acne wash, the CRU is dripping in green-fantasy-power-ooze money, which gives them an undeniably intrinsic financial interest in the promotion of AGW. And yet, MSM articles and reports (not to mention those of the hallowed IPCC) are awash with the manipulated data, charts, and projections generated by this blatantly biased organization. Is anyone really buying our HuffPo hero’s assertion that the “lack of press interest” in the Heartland conference is based primarily on the MSM’s scruples regarding funding conflicts?

PR-USA.net - Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill is a Hidden Tax on Transportation, ATA Says

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) cannot support the American Power Act, the climate change bill introduced May 12 by Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Joe Lieberman, ATA President and CEO Bill Graves said today.

The bill will raise the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel without significantly reducing the output of carbon dioxide by the trucking industry, which is a non-discretionary user of diesel fuel.

Rex Murphy: Getting lectured by Ban Ki-moon - Full Comment

The science of global warming needs a wholesale outside review. In fact, it needs to be taken out from under the umbrella of the United Nations and its “process” altogether. If some of this message was given by Mr. Harper to the UN’s chief, the meeting will have been productive and, indeed, something of a joy to truth.

Big Global Warming Case Hinges on Weird Procedural Technicality | Cato @ Liberty

Mississippi homeowners sued 34 energy companies and utilities operating in the Gulf Coast for damage sustained to their property during Hurricane Katrina. The homeowners alleged that the defendants had emitted greenhouse gases, which increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which contributed to global warming, which accelerated the melting of glaciers, which raised the global sea level, which increased the frequency and severity of hurricanes, which caused the destructive force of Hurricane Katrina.

Seattle DJC Newspaper - Construction - Groups seek wind energy ban in Oregon

PORTLAND (AP) — Conservation groups are asking the state of Oregon to make Steens Mountain and the congressionally protected area around it off-limits to wind energy development.