Thursday, May 13, 2010

Metro - Harper rejects UN chief's plea to make climate change G20 agenda's top priority
OTTAWA - Canada brushed aside a direct public demand Wednesday by the visiting United Nations chief and reiterated that it will not make climate change a priority agenda item when it hosts the G20 summit next month.
Climate bill is no easy sell in Ohio | The Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON - A sweeping climate-change bill rolled out in Congress yesterday had been revamped, in part, to win backing from senators in coal-using states such as Ohio.

So far, it's not working.
Are farmers cooling Chicago's summers? - chicagotribune.com
Denser corn, soybean fields across Midwest could be behind late-summer cooling effect, NIU researcher thinks
The Reference Frame: Czech president vetoes a biofuel amendment

UN: No comprehensive climate deal this year
“A good outcome of Cancun will be an operational architecture on climate change,” [Yvo de Boer] said. “And then we can decide on a treaty.”
Natural Gas Vehicles Get Boost in Climate Legislation
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Auto Channel has long been a big supporter of compressed natural gas as a primary alternative fuel to gasoline. At the bottom of this page we proudly present links to several additonal articles to help give you a better understanding of CNG. And also, so as not to confuse the positive reasons for needing CNG with the nonsense known as man-made global warming, we also make available a link to our extensive coverage of the global warming hoax.
The American Power Act: A Climate Dud — MasterResource
“The global temperature “savings” of the Kerry-Lieberman bill is astoundingly small—0.043°C (0.077°F) by 2050 and 0.111°C (0.200°F) by 2100. In other words, by century’s end, reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% will only result in global temperatures being one-fifth of one degree Fahrenheit less than they would otherwise be. That is a scientifically meaningless reduction.”

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