The sun is setting on the global-warming crowd | NJ.com

A study by the Science and Public Policy Institute states that the U.S. government has spent $32 billion on climate research over the past 20 years.

Spending so much on studying on greenhouse gases is a misuse of resources, says William Happer a Princeton physicist who has a habit of injecting realism into the debate over global warming.

"I think most of the current climate change is natural, but people have become so fixated on CO-2 that people no longer look at natural causes," Happer said.

More Climate Wives’ Tales Revisited

Finally, WUWT brings up a new peer-reviewed paper by Ryan O’Donnell, Nicholas Lewis, and Steve McIntyre that shows claims of a warming Antarctic in a peer-reviewed paper by Steig et al were bogus.

Interesting are Anthony’s comments on how reluctant the peer reviewers appear to have been when this sceptical paper landed on their desk. If it had been a paper showing accelerated warming, melting etc., then publication would have been a lot simpler. The peer review probably would have taken only 10 minutes over a cup of coffee. “And don’t worry, we’ll even write up the press releases for you and get this published right before the next conference.”

POLITICO Morning Energy - Inhofe sends video victory speech to Cancun

It looks like Jim Inhofe won’t be dropping by this year’s UN climate talks, but the EPW ranking member will be there in spirit (or at least in video). Inhofe recorded a speech that will be played this evening at an Americans for Prosperity rally in Cancun.

“We have come a long way since the last UN Climate meeting last year when President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and dozens of lawmakers made their way to Copenhagen to tell the world that cap-and-trade was going to pass the United States Senate. Yet the truth was it had no chance of passing. To deliver that message, I traveled to Copenhagen as a one-man truth squad,” the Oklahoma Republican says in the video, according to a transcript provided to ME. “The reporters and diplomats didn’t like it. They hated me for telling the truth. But here we are: I was right and they were wrong.”

Inhofe goes on to say that “nothing is going to happen in Cancun this year and everyone knows it. I couldn’t be happier and poor Al Gore couldn’t be more upset.” Watch the event live at 8 p.m. EST: http://bit.ly/hUMrAm