Extremes of Texas weather blamed on El Nino and La Nina

This recent pattern can't be attributed to global warming because it's too short and actually "more volatile" than what scientists predict could happen, Nielsen-Gammon said.

Summer Guide 2010 - How the Oil Spill Is Recharging the Environmental Movement -- New York Magazine

Good-bye, polar bears. Hello, oil-drenched pelicans. The environmental movement learns the upside of anger.
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And yet any environmental activist who has been in the game long enough knows the power of a good catastrophe.

Maurice Strong: Ignore Glenn Beck – I don't want to the rule the world | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible," said Strong, who was a key official at the UN for decades until his retirement in 2005.

"What I do believe is that we need a system of global governance through which nations can co-operate and deal with issues they cannot deal with alone. Maybe that statement is too sophisticated for some, but it shouldn't be."
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Strong, a former oil and utilities industry executive who is currently a director of the Chicago Climate Exchange, North America's only exchange trading credits for greenhouse gas emissions, rejected the accusation.

"It's true that I do get a modest fee from Chicago Climate Exchange, which I helped [to found], because I believe the cap-and-trade system, while not perfect, is one of the best ways to ensure that people have the incentive to reduce their emissions at the lowest cost," he said.

Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control | Environment | guardian.co.uk

In China, they have used their system – which they call a socialist market economy – quite well to achieve their objectives. ...They have learned how to use the methods of capitalism to meet their own goals of socialism. China is among the best managed countries today. Not perfectly managed, of course

[Q] Where would you instinctively rather live? In China, or in the US or Canada?

I've spent a lot of time in China and, with my environmental interests, China is about as good a place to be at the moment. China was pretty slow at the beginning. [The environment] was a side issue compared to the economy. But China has now recognised that undermining the environment is one of the risks to development. They have become very environmentally minded.