Wednesday, December 29, 2010

2007 - Europe set for warmer northern winters, hotter southern summers and worsening droughts and floods - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) --
Having just experienced the warmest winter on record, Europeans can clearly see that their climate is changing, and changing rapidly, said Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, which, together with the World Meteorological Organization, established the IPCC in 1988.
Hutchison: EPA climate rules like ‘a new gas tax’ - The Hill's E2-Wire
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to delay plans to implement new greenhouse-gas standards on oil refineries, arguing the regulations would amount to “a new gas tax.”

The new greenhouse-gas standards “will hurt every American driver, trucker, farmer and flier with higher gasoline, diesel and jet fuel prices,” Hutchison said in a letter sent Wednesday to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. “Higher prices passed on to consumers will feel like a new gas tax.”
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[Hutchison] Your agency is circumventing the role of Congress. With heavy input from constituents, Congress has already rejected attempts to use cap-and-trade to force fuel prices higher with costly new greenhouse gas mandates on the American people.
Scientist: Climate change to intensify winter weather - The Hill's E2-Wire
This weekend’s massive blizzard in the Northeast has fueled the fire of climate skepticism that's pervasive in many parts of the United States. If we’re still getting major winter storms, skeptics say, how can the planet be warming?

E2 Wire put that question to Tom Peterson, chief scientist at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration’s National Climatic Data Center.

Peterson said the latest climate change data indicate increases in global temperature result in more intense weather events, including winter storms.
When the wind sucks « The Daily Bayonet
Wind isn’t an energy solution, it’s a visual placebo to make hippies feel better about themselves.
I don’t think the warmists’ models are working | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

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