Katie Couric's Notebook: Climate Change - Couric & Co. - CBS News

The debate over global warming is once again heating up [Get it? That's why she gets the big bucks.] in Washington.

Roughly half of the newly elected Republican congress members are climate change skeptics, according to one survey, and some want to roll back environmental regulations.

Their position was bolstered by the Climategate scandal, in which a handful of scientists were accused of manipulating data to support climate change. The scientists were later cleared, but the damage was done. Less than 60 percent of Americans now believe in global warming, down from 80 percent in 2006.

Still, the vast majority of scientists -- 97 percent -- say man-made climate change is real. 700 climate experts have joined a media project to educate the public.... and UN talks are underway in Cancun on a treaty to curb greenhouse gases.

Sometimes Global Warming Causes Local Cooling.

I note this as just another perturbation in the complicated weather patterns changed by GW.

NationalJournal.com - U.S. Tells the World It Will Pass Climate Bill - Wednesday, December 1, 2010

CANCUN, Mexico—U.S. negotiators came into the United Nations global warming summit with a weak hand but a bold move: a pledge that Congress will enact climate change legislation well before the decade is through.
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But asked about the idea that the United States may pledge, without saying so explicitly, to enact a cap-and-trade law, Graham laughed, and said, “How are they going to do that?”