Issa downplays prospect of Oversight Committee ‘climate-gate’ probe - The Hill's E2-Wire

Issa – the likely chairman the Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the next Congress – signaled to reporters Monday that his interest in probing “climate-gate” has waned.

“I will have limited resources and limited time. I am looking at things that fall between the cracks, but also I am looking for the largest dollars of waste, and although this is a significant issue, it may not be the issue that first comes to my committee, and we are willing to realize that I only have so many resources and so much time,” he told reporters in the Capitol Monday evening.

Greek PM expresses support on Sarkozy's carbon tax - People's Daily Online

Following a working lunch with the French president at the Elysee Palace, Papandreou told the press he and Sarokzy discussed a new mechanism for the stability of the European Union, which should be financed by carbon tax on Europe level and a tax on financial transactions.

With this new mechanism, Europe would have substantial sources of income to help boost economic growth and create jobs, the prime minister said.

Climategate scientist insists sceptics will accept global warming when Arctic ice melts - Telegraph

lthough he has admitted that his comments had damaged public perception of the threat of global warming, he told The Times that he thought most people would be persuaded when the Arctic became ice-free in summer.

Others would eventually be won over as the planet continued to warm. He said: "I don’t know how long it’s going to take. It's potentially going to take years."

Prof Jones, 58, blamed the way that research papers are posted on Google for providing people with easy access to long lists of dismissive blog postings by sceptics, while making it difficult to source original research papers that support climate change.

He said: "It’s way down there because of the way Google works. People will potentially get the misinformation first."

The scientist said that recent cold winters had played a part in allowing sceptics to believe that climate change was not a problem because they assumed that if temperatures were cold locally that the world was not heating up elsewhere.