Pelosi visits Portland; vows continued effort to halt climate change | OregonLive.com

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was in Portland Thursday touting a new residential energy efficiency program located here, vowed to continue fighting climate change even if it costs Democrats politically in the next election.

"This is about saving the planet, not the Democratic majority," Pelosi said after touring a newly weatherized home in Northeast Portland. "We have to be thinking about the next generation, not the next election and that is what this conversation is about.
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"We have to make up for a lot of lost time," said Pelosi, blaming the Bush administration and Republican congressional leaders for refusing to address the threat of climate change seriously. "We have a moral obligation to preserve the planet."

FALSE ALARM: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong » NOAA’s magic wand waves away 2000-2009 cooling

In other words, it stretches credulity to the breaking point to believe that the global temperature trend from 2000-2009 could be a full 0.51°C—half a degree Celsius—higher than the temperature trend for the United States (that is, -.4C + .11C).

Until NOAA issues a correction (which isn’t likely), the cooling of the past decade—which has been such an embarrassment to the hypothesis that human-caused carbon emissions will cause runaway warming—is gone, conjured away by a wave of the NOAA climate fairy’s magic wand.