FT.com / Comment / Editorial - Climate change bill is now a long shot

It goes without saying that a cap and trade law – or, better, an outright carbon tax – is needed, and eventually it will happen.

Obama Advisor Carol Browner [still promoting the climate hoax]

“If we wait until we can see and touch the consequences of climate change, it will simply be too late,” she said. “If we don’t act now — if we maintain the status quo and continue to rely on fossil fuels, we will face challenges of an unprecedented scale-drought, saltwater intrusion into freshwater supplies, disrupted agricultural production, and the spread of disease and poverty.”

The Week That Was 2010-05-15: Fred Singer

We live in an Orwellian world where myth and propaganda have replaced science and reason even at the highest levels of discourse. As reproduced in TWTW last week Science ran a letter signed by 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences attacking Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for requesting documents relating to the work of Michael Mann while at the University of Virginia. The letter contained numerous spurious assertions as if they were scientific fact to include carbon dioxide emissions are making the oceans more acidic. As expressed below, if anything, emissions are making the oceans less alkaline.

- Bishop Hill blog - Harrabin on Heartland

Roger Harrabin has posted a short report [MP3] from the Heartland Conference which is actually not too bad. There are a couple of irrelevant asides about tobacco funding, but there is a definite change in tone.

I wonder why?

NRO’s Manzi Mischaracterizes Global Warming Debate - by James M. Taylor

Manzi is either ignorant of the scientific accomplishments of these three scientists, or sought to score a cheap point by taking advantage of uninformed readers.