Third Climategate report 'imminent' – expect a shortage of whitewash in stores this weekend – Telegraph Blogs

This is the third investigation into Climategate and the universal expectation is that it will be as much a snow job as the previous two, though those precedents will be hard to beat: not since Tom Sawyer manipulated his friends into whitewashing his aunt’s fence has a team worked harder than the successive establishment figures who have exonerated the Decline Hiders from any culpability.

Climate splitting Democrats

Senate Republicans fell short Thursday, 47-53, of overturning the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, but exposed a significant split among Democrats that may bode ill for passage this year of comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation.

As the Washington Post reported, the contentious vote "suggested the Senate is far from decided on whether to put a price on the industrial emissions that stem from everyday activities such as lighting a home or driving a car."

Cap & Ruin

Sen. Harry Reid has a dandy idea: force his troops in the United States Senate to pass a bill - The American Power Act (APA) – by July that will skyrocket your electric bills, wreck an already staggering economy drive jobs overseas and cause more unemployment in the midst of a depression, all in the name of preventing the planet from getting spit roasted by the phantom threat of global warming.

Replay set for November in Cancún after climate talks hit the post on key areas - The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 12, 2010

Outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer, who’s leaving to join KPMG, used World Cup imagery in his farewell speech: “We got a yellow card in Copenhagen and the referee’s hand will edge towards the red one if we fail to deliver in Cancún and beyond.” But he honestly doesn’t believe that there will be a comprehensive deal before 2020.