Hasta la vista, global warming believers

Next year, there will be another giant gathering producing another useless communique. Hopefully, with scientific and public opposition to computer-assisted astrology growing ever stronger, that will be the end of the global warming mania.

Obama MPG Regs Will Cost $6,400 Per Car - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The willful, random mandates (why not 100 mpg? 150 mpg?) set by Washington’s green zealots would also gut manufacturing jobs as it “would prompt consumers to hold on to their cars for far longer, costing more than 220,000 auto manufacturing jobs as new vehicle sales fall,” the study added.

So much for green policies generating green profits.

No Correlation « Musings from the Chiefio

This graph was in a link at WUWT. I’ve lost the context and can’t do a proper attribution. At any rate, I find it a very compelling statement about the complete NON-correlation of CO2 levels with temperature levels on our planet. It also shows the “model” results are outside of all reality. Way out in Fantasy Land.

In 2007, Mike Huckabee supported cap and trade — now he denies it. « Climate Progress

Yesterday afternoon, Mike Huckabee denied that he ever supported a mandatory cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse pollution. “I never did support and never would support it – period,” the former Arkansas governor, Republican presidential candidate, and Fox News personality claimed in a blog post on his political fundraising site Huck PAC. However, when he spoke at the Clean Air Cool Planet conference in Manchester, NH, on October 13, 2007, Huckabee was unequivocal in his support for “cap and trade of carbon emissions” because “it’s all our responsibility to fix” climate change: