'Cry Wolf': Parallels with Climategate? | Washington Examiner

What are some other parallels to the Climategate scandal?

* Plans to suppress, marginalize or simply never to include dissenting opinions or critical findings.
* Plans to use the mainstream media as a pipeline for dubious or cherry-picked findings.
* Ad hominem and tu quoque attacks against those who disagree. (Remember the "denial machine" accusation?)
* Plans to include unscientific research from activist groups and students.

The Breakthrough Institute: Carbon Offsets Fraud Continues

Breakthrough has long pointed to the dubious nature of carbon offsets that have offered an all too convenient policy out for legislators crafting legislation while hoping to avoid blowback from the business world and has covered the suspensions of at least three carbon offset auditors, a forest offsets scam reported by Greenpeace, and the problems with carbon offsets included in proposed U.S. climate and energy legislation.

The Plum Line - What Obama should say on climate change

...the conditions for passing climate change legislation, as difficult as it looks, are as good in Congress as they may be for a long time to come.

If Republicans make gains in both houses, as seems very possible, the prospects for passing meaningful reform become more remote.