Another dispatch from the bizarro world of Tom Friedman

Op-Ed Columnist - A Tea Party With a Difference - NYTimes.com

So if there is going to be a Green Tea Party, it will have to emerge from a different place — the radical center, a center committed to a radical departure from business as usual. Acting on that impulse, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman are expected to unveil a bipartisan climate/energy/jobs bill on Monday that deserves an energetic centrist Green Tea Party to support it.

Graham Pulls Support for Major Senate Climate [Hoax] Bill - NYTimes.com

Hours after Mr. Graham released his letter, Mr. Kerry said in a statement that Mr. Graham’s actions had scuttled plans for an elaborate announcement of the proposal, whose passage is a major priority for the Obama administration.

“We all believe that this year is our best and perhaps last chance for Congress to pass a comprehensive approach,” Mr. Kerry said. “We believe that we had reached such an agreement and were excited to announce it on Monday, but regrettably external issues have arisen that force us to postpone only temporarily.”

CNN on Graham

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/24/graham-move-imperils-obama-push-for-immigration-reform-climate-change/

(CNN) – In a stunning move that could throw a major roadblock in front of two of President Obama's biggest legislative initiatives, Sen. Lindsey Graham, abruptly declared Saturday he's abandoning talks on climate change legislation because he believes Democratic efforts to bring up a separate immigration reform package is undermining the legislative process.

Post Carbon: Sen. Graham threatens to halt work on climate and energy bill - Doris Truong

http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/04/sen_graham_threatens_to_halt_work_on_climate_and_energy_bill.html

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to abandon his effort to push a climate and energy bill Saturday, saying he will only continue if Democratic leaders promise to relinquish plans to bring up immigration legislation first.

Cold weather threatens supplies of S.Korean national dish - Food & Drink, Life & Style - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/cold-weather-threatens-supplies-of-skorean-national-dish-1953564.html

Soaring cabbage prices caused by heavy snowfall and a longer-than-expected cold spell are threatening supplies of kimchi, South Korea's beloved national dish, officials said Tuesday.

GOP Sen. Graham blasts Democratic leader for moving immigration bill ahead of climate change

http://blog.taragana.com/science/2010/04/24/gop-sen-graham-blasts-democratic-leader-for-moving-immigration-bill-ahead-of-climate-change-11509/

Graham, of South Carolina, is one of three senators co-sponsoring a comprehensive energy and climate bill scheduled to be unveiled on Monday. But in a letter Saturday to Senate leaders, Graham said he will withdraw his support for the climate measure if Reid moves forward on immigration first.

Graham called Reid's apparent shift toward immigration "a cynical political ploy" that could derail months of effort on climate change.

'Too many sceptics in BBC's climate change reporting' says 'independent' 'expert' – Telegraph Blogs

Luckily, [Fiona Fox] enthuses, the BBC is doing a fine job of correcting this grotesque imbalance.

“With Climate Science there’s been a real change with people like Richard Black and Roger Harrabin fighting internally to say ‘We don’t have to have a sceptic every time we have a climate scientist.’”

Climate bill not likely to come up this year - Glenn Thrush and Meredith Shiner - POLITICO.com

The bipartisan climate bill to be unveiled Monday isn't dead on arrival but it's not likely to be taken up this year — and not before an immigration bill comes to the Senate floor, according to Democratic aides.

As staffers for Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) prepared for a long weekend hammering out a compromise bill in time for Monday's unveiling, leadership aides not involved in its drafting cautioned against its prospects of quick consideration before this year's midterms.

"It's not fair to say it's dead, but it's on the back burner... It could happen this year, but at this point it's not likely," said a senior Democratic aide familiar with Reid's thinking.

It's "unlikely" to be considered this year, said another.

Spotlight On: Sea Ice Formation

As water molecules continue to freeze onto the underside of the existing sheet , it yields ‘first year ice’, which can, in a single season in the Arctic, reach a thickness of between 1.5 and 2 metres.
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Any ice that survives one or more summer seasons of partial melt is called multi-year ice. Growth continues from year to year until the ice thickness reaches a maximum of about 3 metres. More than half of the ice in the Arctic is thought to be multi-year ice.

[We're saved!  This US government website provides helpful information on the harmful effects of trace amounts of CO2!]

Enviro-Health Links - Climate Change and Human Health

Cold weather puts Chelsea Flower Show on a 'knife edge' - Telegraph

This year's Chelsea Flower Show could be a little less colourful than usual, organisers have warned, because the particularly cold winter has held back blooms by up to three weeks.

[Harvard: Research associate claims that we need "drastic changes in the way we live" because of small amounts of atmospheric CO2]

“[T]he biggest issue regarding climate change is the fact that it doesn’t look like we are going to do anything about it,” wrote [David S. Sayres, a research associate involved with the project]. “If we are going to mitigate climate change and possibly stop it we, meaning humans, are going to have to make some drastic changes in the way we live and the way we get our energy; and we need to do it quickly.”

[Arkansas debate: Democratic Senate candidate calls global warming a "hoax"]

But it was Morrison who interjected that his opposition to the cap-and-trade was because “global warming is a hoax perpetrated on a gullible public.”

Global warming: The Oxburgh Incident and the Italian Job

Would Lord Oxburgh have been appointed to his position as head of the panel investigating Climategate if it had been known that his employer was a subsidiary controlled by an Italian company enmeshed in scandals involving Sicilian waste? Let me hasten to add that I am not making any accusations of either Lord Oxburgh or Falck Renewables, the company he chairs. But was he really the best choice for this inquiry?

Beecher, Flannery and Melbourne’s climate of conformity | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This is, then, merely a collection of fellow travellers and mainchancers who agree with each other on a colossal scare based on controversial climate models that almost none have studied. And they are brought together not because they have something new to say, but because what they’re guaranteed to say suits the agenda of the Government and its ideological collaborators.

And this, we’re told, is “unparalleled debate”. This will help us to become a “City of Literature”.

Do we laugh or throw up?

The Hockey Schtick: Sign of the Times: Amazon Rank Spencer 40 v. Romm 2087

Spencer outselling Romm 52 [31?] to 1: Another inconvenient truth

Climate change legislation unlikely this year, say sources « - Blogs from CNN.com

(CNN) - Despite a new bipartisan push on climate change, legislation on the issue is unlikely to make it to the Senate floor this year, two Senate Democratic sources tell CNN.
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The Democratic sources said the feeling in the Senate Democratic leadership is that immigration has more of a political upside for Democrats for several reasons.

Breaking: Greenpeace will both oppose and not oppose the climate hoax bill

Greenpeace says no to energy bill - Jeanne Cummings - POLITICO.com

Offering the first evidence of the complex Senate debate that lies ahead on an energy reform bill, the environmental group Greenpeace said Friday it intends to oppose the legislation that a bipartisan group of Senators intend to introduce next week.

“Although we appreciate the Senate’s efforts to reduce global warming pollution, it’s clear that polluter lobbyists have succeeded in hijacking this climate policy initiative and undermined the ambitious action necessary,” Phil Radford, the group’s executive director, said in a statement.

Greenpeace won't fight U.S. climate bill | Reuters

(Reuters) - Greenpeace considers the climate change bill being drafted in the U.S. Senate a "baby step" that will not deliver needed change, but it will not campaign against it, the group's top executive said on Thursday.
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"This is a baby step in the right direction. It is in terms of what the world needs, it is, you know, too little too late," said Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, which is known for confrontational tactics.

Latinos, African Americans [Allegedly] Willing to Pay More to Slow Climate Change | La Prensa San Diego

Among Nevada’s Latinos, for example, 93 percent of Republicans said, “take action now” on climate change, a higher rate even than the state’s Latino independents (89 percent) and Democrats (88 percent).   [How many Nevadan Latino Republicans were surveyed?]
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Benjamin also cited the link between income status and health, mentioning a 1995 Chicago heat wave that left 600 people dead. Many of the dead were low-income African-American elderly, some of whom did not turn on their air conditioning for fear of being unable to pay a higher bill.    [If that's true, should we make electricity rates skyrocket in an attempt to prevent occasional heat waves in Chicago?]

Reuters AlertNet - Potentially deadly fungus spreading in US, Canada

* Fungus is unique genetic strain

* Climate change may aid its spread

Republican Opinions on Environmentalism have Shifted Drastically in the Past 10 Years | EnviroKnow

As you can see, nearly 50% of Republicans now think the environmental movement has done more harm than good, up from 28% just 10 years. And on the flipside, while 70% of Republicans thought the environmental movement did more good than harm in 2000, just 49% feel that way now.

Pelosi's choice - Will Democrats have to ditch immigration or climate change legislation? | POLITICO.COM

[Walter Russell Mead] Both a climate change bill and an immigration bill MIGHT be good politics in the long term; in the short term (like November) they are both horrible disasters in the making.

In both cases, a significant group of voters important to the Democratic base is passionately committed to the cause, but polls indicate that most voters don't share their views. The problem is this: any bill strong enough to galvanize the base and build Democratic turnout and enthusiasm for the fall will be so unpopular among the public at large that the already surging GOP and independent enthusiasm will be further stoked. Any bill weak enough to keep the opposition from going ballistic will be so weak and compromised that the Democratic base will purse its lips in disgust.

CQ Politics | Climate [Scam] Bill Negotiators Make Headway, but Job Is Far From Done

The Washington Post reported Friday that the Edison Electric Institute, which represents most U.S. electricity production, will endorse the bill, but a spokesman for the group said that assertion was premature, as the members have yet to view legislative text.

While the bill is scheduled to be unveiled with great fanfare on Monday morning, people close to the negotiations said there may still be some doubt about whether the bill’s authors can complete a full text by then.

Some industry sources said the Senate bill’s lead author, Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry , may have “overclaimed” industry support and the backing of colleagues as of Thursday night. Senators whose support will be needed to move the bill, including the chairs of committees with legislative jurisdiction, also have yet to see text.

[As of late Thursday, even Barbara Boxer hadn't seen the text of the climate swindle bill?]

"We're very optimistic about how the bill will look vis-a-vis my state," Boxer said, but adding she had not yet seen the text of the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill.

[Interview with Steven Chu] - The Daily Beast

I see game changers in carbon capture and sequestration. To meet the world’s climate goals, you’re going to have to capture carbon from virtually every stationary source...
...[Q] What chance do you give the energy legislation that Senators Graham, Kerry, and Lieberman are working on? Will it pass this year?

I’m a very bad bookmaker. But I think it’s very important to get the message out to all Americans that a comprehensive energy bill is a jobs bill. It is a bill that’s going to create the foundation for prosperity in the United States this year, next year and in the decades following. This is about international competition and who is going to lead in this new industrial revolution. This is what is at stake.  [Wait a minute--that's what's at stake?  What about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire?!]

CNSNews.com - Christian Theologian on Earth Day: ‘Climate Change Is the Totalitarian’s Dream Come True’

“Climate change is the totalitarian’s dream come true,” Beisner, founder of the CASC, said at a conference on Thursday at the Family Research Council in Washington. “It offers a rationale for government intrusion into every aspect of life for every person on Earth.”

Kerry: 2010 is 'last, best' shot at climate - The Hill's E2-Wire

This year is the "last and best shot” at passing climate legislation in the Senate, according to Sen. John Kerry.

Choice? You couldn't put a cigarette paper between these Three Stooges – Telegraph Blogs

The truly weird aspect was the spectacle of the three men who aspire to rule Britain, a major developed nation which, despite its decline, remains a nuclear power with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, competing to proclaim their faith in the global warming myth.

That is frightening. It is in no way less terrifying than if they subscribed to the Flat Earth theory. AGW is a nonsense – the dogs in the street know it is a scam designed to earn fortunes for carbon speculators – yet here were the potential successors of Pitt, Churchill and Thatcher giving priority in their agenda, in the midst of an economic crisis, to a discredited fiction that complicit politicians such as these three propose to subsidise to the tune of $45 trillion. Beam me up, Scottie!

Iceland proves humanity cannot cause global warming

While the Laki event is extreme, it serves as a reminder of just how dependent mankind is on gentle geology– and how quickly the local and regional areas can be devastated by true forces of nature.

Energy Answer Not Blowin' In The Wind | The Resilient Earth

Bottom line: the wind will not provide the majority of the USA's electricity, or even the East Coast's. Do not misunderstand, I think that wind power has a place in the energy future, both in America and around the world. It can play a part in almost any country's effort to achieve energy independence, but the wind alone is not a viable solution. Fatuous statements by unrealistic green-power advocates does everyone a disservice. Claims that wind power can be free and reliable are incorrect—the wind is free, the power grid must be reliable, and wind power is neither.

[Which of these things is not like the others?] - Telegraph

NICK CLEGG:

How on earth does it help anyone in Bristol or anyone else in the country for that matter, David Cameron, to join to together in the European Union with a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites, people who deny [dangerous anthropogenic] climate change exists, homophobes? That doesn’t help Britain.

Jake Whitney: [Now it's 19,000]

So that list of 700 actually amounts to less than 70 legitimate climate scientists, which, when measured against the approximately 19,000 that compose consensus [may we see a list of their names?], doesn't exactly equal an even debate.

Arctic research may be threatened by global cooling, says Russian scientist

Prof. Oleg Pokrovsky of the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory (MGO) said the cold snap began in 1998 and the temperatures are predicted to return to the lows of the 1950s-1960s and reach their peak in 15 years.

Carbon creeps into Wall Street reform - The Hill's E2-Wire

Plenty of lawmakers – such as Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) – fear that climate legislation could create a sprawling carbon trading market that’s vulnerable to abuse.

Senate legislation to tighten federal controls on massive derivative markets includes language that requires an interagency study of existing and future carbon markets, Bloomberg reports.

Senate panel clears budget but nips climate reconciliation

The Senate Budget Committee yesterday hamstrung the chamber's ability to move climate change legislation through the filibuster-proof reconciliation process on its way to passing a budget resolution that also freezes spending for most domestic programs.

Where has all the heat gone? - physicsworld.com

...something unexplained happened in about 2004 – and since then terrestrial measurements suggest that the planet is losing energy.

Curry on the “Inquiries” « Climate Audit

The majority of the climate science “community” appear to be so desperate for affection that they’ve proclaimed wind utility chairman Oxburgh’s love to the rooftops merely because of a few sweet nothings whispered in their ears. (Words of love so soft and tender.) Their gratitude is so great that they are willing to overlook the embarrassing brevity of Oxburgh’s report, Oxburgh’s negligible due diligence and failure to address any of the questions that were actually at issue.

Judy Curry has not compromised her standards.

The silent undercurrent of skepticism « JoNova

...there is a major silent undercurrent of passive sceptics. I am reminded of the taxi driver I met on the way to a speech here in Perth in October. I announce that I’m ‘talking about climate change’ and there’s a dead silence. I add, ‘It’s not what you think. It’s a scam.’ He comes to life, practically claps while he drives (I worry about the steering wheel) — ‘That’s fantastic,’ he enthuses, ‘Can I come see you talk?!’ It’s just another sign that under the veneer of solid public belief in ‘climate change’, nearly everyone outside of the core believers only has a paper-thin conviction. As soon as you admit you are not a believer, suddenly you find out how many people agree. Kevin Rudd has never had a conversation like that, so he has no idea of the strength of the sceptical undercurrent. It’s a confirmation bias, and it has flummoxed him and many others. Behind the wall of confidence and ritual nods, few realized beforehand that the polls would swing so rapidly. It reminds me of that line about keeping your enemies close. Rudd, Wong, Turnbull and co. mistakenly surrounded themselves with believers — it is a fatal flaw in politics.

» Clicking the Emerald Slippers, Stealing Your Money - Big Government

Windmills are not a strategic industry.

'Climategate' blazes up Amazon's best-seller lists

On Earth Day, author reveals to Hannity the Marxist motivation of 'warmers'

[If it's OK for Boeing to consume energy in this way, maybe it's OK for me to slip a man-made ice cube into my room-temperature tap water on my birthday?] - WSJ.com

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – To find the world's coldest temperatures to run tests on its new 787 Dreamliner, Boeing Co. brought one to Florida.

On a balmy, 80 degree Thursday on this sprawling base in the Florida Panhandle, one of the six Dreamliner test planes sat silently inside a sealed hangar, where the temperature was a carefully calibrated 45.7 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

Scientist says Arctic getting colder - UPI.com

MOSCOW, April 23 (UPI) -- A Russian scientist says the Arctic may be getting colder, not warmer, which would hamper the international race to discover new mineral fields.

An Arctic cold snap that began in 1998 could last for years, freezing the northern marine passage and making it impassable without icebreaking ships, said Oleg Pokrovsky of the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory.

"Senate Hides Obama's Energy Tax Bill From Debate"

"If we introduce it, (correctly) it'll get referred to committees," - Lieberman - Vote Expected In 2 Weeks At The End Of April

Lieberman a so-called independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats and fellow co-energy conspirators Kerry, D-MA, and RINO Graham, R-SC, will NOT introduce their Phony Secret Energy Tax Bill via the normal Senate process, but will instead simply hand it over to Reid. Lieberman said "We want him to be able to work with it and bring it out onto the floor as a leader whenever he's ready" leaving Reid free to blind-side Americans and bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote whenever he chooses to do so.

Climate Denialists In Denial - Politics - The Atlantic

Environmentalists have responded to the claims that their carbon emission reduction schemes wouldn't hurt the macro-economy by essentially inventing the idea of a Green Economy. Unfortunately, that invention has yet to be mass marketed. If we're going to deal with the problem, we're probably going to experience some pain, and we're going to have to figure out the best way to distribute that pain so that it be best tolerated.

Al Gore’s Climate Change Cult Targets Teens | NewsReal Blog

...The competition must be fierce to prove one’s self worthy to sit at the feet of the master.

Perhaps an ambitious Al Gore devotee could gin up international hatred and terrify billions by blaming selfish American capitalists for made-up melting glaciers and imminent famine and drought.

ABC's Sam Donaldson Hypes: Al Gore for the Supreme Court

Stephanopoulos, a former Democratic operative, incredulously responded, "There would be a massive fight!" He then broke out laughing. Donaldson, perhaps realizing the unlikely nature of this liberal fantasy, conceded, "I said to some extent." He, too, started laughing.

Senator warns US climate bill could face further delay - 23 Apr 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

Following a day of negotiations on the final details of the bill, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham told reporters that he was no longer certain that the draft bill would be ready by Monday.

"The transportation sector is a problem," he said. "We're just dealing with that."

Frost-fighting machine offers promise to grape growers - St. Catharines Standard - Ontario, CA

Mother Nature's wrath was never so evident to Niagara grape growers as it was in 2005.

An extremely cold winter severely damaged vines and wiped out half of that year's grape crop.

Now, a new freeze and frost protection system currently being tested by the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre offers weather-weary farmers some hope.

Called Tempwave, the 25-foot tower releases low-level microwave radiant heat that prevents frost damage to crops within a one-acre radius. Similar to a microwave oven, the device created by U.S.-based technology company Raytheon emits low-powered radio waves "tuned specifically to water molecules, causing them to vibrate and heat up just enough to keep from freezing," according to a Vineland press release.

Kerry: Three Big Oil Companies Likely to Back Climate Bill | Mother Jones

In the teleconference, organized by the We Can Lead coalition, Kerry outlined specific details from the bill that have not previously been publicly available. Here's a rundown

The global warming hoax? Houston expert talks climate alarmist pollution - 2010-Apr-22 - CultureMap Houston

I consider myself an environmentalist, but having extensively studied the issues I haven’t found any evidence that the sky is falling, oceans are rising, polar bears are sweating or that carbon dioxide is a polluting menace.

Earth Day 2010: On Lenin and Liberty | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

The real question is whether Americans should be forced to submit to major restrictions in their freedoms and to abandon stewardship of their own resources and possessions to the government. That such sacrifices would achieve little or no environmental gains should not be a surprise.

Where Do We Look Now for Green-Energy Inspiration? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Remember that whole bit about the president telling us to “think about what’s happening in countries like Spain and Germany”? Yeah, that one. Well, even E&E News covered the Spanish subsidy collapse today, so you know economic reality is intruding into some of the most reluctant circles. Now, on to Germany!

Dial “M” for mangled – Wikipedia and Environment Canada caught with temperature data errors. « Watts Up With That?

The fact that the obvious error on July 14th is now cited in Wikipedia as an “all time record high”, when it doesn’t appear in the EC hourly data, is troubling. – Anthony

And we would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that damned Internet

[There are now a whole lot of newly-minted, well-informed skeptics out there]

Dale Spurlock, of Shirland, said he believes global warming is a complete hoax, and just another way for the government to find ways to pass on taxes.

“It’s just bologna,” he said.

Spurlock said Al Gore’s film “The Inconvenient Truth” was filled with misinformation. He said glaciers melt every year and it’s part of a natural cycle. He said the polar bear population isn’t decreasing, adding the heating and cooling of the earth happens because of natural occurences such as the sun, ocean and gravitational forces.

“The Earth warms and cools periodically and always has. What man is doing has very little impact on global warming,” he said.

Spurlock said the Earth is actually entering a cooling state, with an increasing number of glaciers and cooler and longer winters.

Climate "scientist" sues newspaper for 'poisoning' global warming [hoax] debate | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Weaver is suing for libel three writers at the newspaper, as well as the newspaper as a whole and several, as-yet unknown, posters on the paper's online comment section. Such comments, typical on articles about global warming, included claims that Weaver was "as big a hypocrite as he is a fraudster" and a rat leaving a sinking "ship of lies, red-herrings and hysteria". One poster suggested he should be thrown under a bus.

McConchie Law Corporation, acting for Weaver, said that the National Post articles had "gone viral on the internet" and were reproduced on dozens of other websites, including prominent climate-sceptic sites Climate Audit and Watts Up With That.
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McConchie Law said it was seeking an "unprecedented" court order that would require the newspaper to help Weaver remove the articles from across the internet. Media law experts said that such demands were becoming increasingly common in complaints to publishers, but this could be the first time they were tested in court.

Climate Common Sense: Most UK farmers say They are not feeling Climate Change

Reuter reports that the majority of farmers say they are not feeling the effects of climate change which is not surprising given the horror winter just past.

Bill Clinton [doesn't sound like he believes in AGW]

LITTLE ROCK - Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday that supporters of environmentally friendly technology need to highlight its economic benefits for businesses.

Speaking to the Downtown Little Rock Partnership's annual meeting, Clinton said he wouldn't promote the idea of green jobs if he didn't believe that companies could make money from the practice. One of the missions of Clinton's nonprofit foundation is addressing climate change.

Climategate; Why Don’t We Know Who Leaked The CRU Emails?

[Tim Ball] Why don’t we know who released the emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)? Is it an attempt by the CRU and the University of East Anglia (UEA) to divert even more attention from their involvement in this scandal? Is it part of the larger cover up apparently orchestrated by the Royal Society?

Fox & Friends celebrates Earth Day by pushing "Climategate" falsehoods | Media Matters for America

Bozell: There was a "campaign" to "destroy evidence," "manipulate" data, and "bully journalists."

Maybe Americans impoverished by cap and tax can flee to new landmass in Bangladesh?

Bangladesh's landmass increased due to sedimentation in rivers | TopNews

Dhaka, April 23 - Bangladesh's landmass has increased in recent years, thanks to sedimentation in its southern rivers, a study has revealed.

The study shows that the country has actually grown in landmass equal to five times the size of Dhaka city. The new land has emerged in the Meghna estuary.

WORLD Magazine | Cold shoulders | Timothy Lamer | May 08, 10

The Graham-Kerry-Lieberman global warming bill faces a hostile climate in the Senate

Graham's own private climate change - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

The immigration push "destroys the ability to do something on energy and climate,” he told POLITICO's Marin Cogan today, questioning whether the Senate could take up both immigration and climate before November.

Let's take a trip in the way back machine, back to the hazy primordial days of March 10, 2010 was Graham made the opposite argument -- telling me the administration wasn't moving nearly fast enough to introduce the bill.

Lindsey Graham: Immigration push could 'destroy' climate talks - Marin Cogan - POLITICO.com

Both immigration and climate have been important issues for Boxer, who is chairwoman of the Environment and Public Work Committee. But she declined to say which bill she’d prefer be taken up first. “Sixty is the key for me. Where do we get to sixty. They’re both so critical for the economy. We have to do more than one thing folks,” she said. “The more we get done the more we do.”

Very cold weekend ahead - South Africa

Gauteng residents will have to prepare themselves for a weekend with extremely cold weather as Johannesburg and Pretoria are forecast to reach low maximums of only 13 and 15 respectively.

Wholesale prices rise in March as food costs jump - Yahoo! Finance

Food prices jumped by 2.4 percent in March, the most since January 1984. Vegetable prices soared by more than 49 percent, the most in 15 years. A cold snap wiped out much of Florida's tomato and other vegetable crops at the beginning of this year.

The Canadian Press: Gore blames U.S. for failure at climate summit after blowing deal with China

MONTREAL — Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore says his country's lack of leadership on environmental change is partly to blame for the failure of last year's climate summit in Copenhagen.

Gore told a conference in Montreal Thursday the U.S. Senate's unwillingness to pass pre-summit legislation to reduce emissions botched a secret deal with China.

He says China had promised to push for a meaningful treaty in Copenhagen if Congress had passed a law curtailing emissions.

Wheat heats up on chill

BEIJING - China's domestic wheat prices may extend gains as cold weather hinders harvesting of the grain in the world's biggest grower.

About 3.5 million hectares of wheat growth is rated as third class or inferior due to the cold weather that has swept major wheat growing region in northern China this spring, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement this week.

Take back our environment for Earth Day! | CFACT

How did we let the big government crowd make our environment their ruse de guerre? This Earth Day we call on all people of good sense to retake our environment.

No Frakking Consensus: Earth Day & the Media

Depending on the era, the specifics change, but the general themes remain constant. Things are dire. Scientists are alarmed. Humans are stupid.

Electric Cars a Major Environmental Threat - Media Release - The Dog & Lemon Guide

Despite their ‘green’ image, electric cars are often less efficient and more polluting than the petrol cars they replace, according to a major report released today.The 168-page report, titled The Emperor’s New Car, is described as a ‘long-overdue reality check’ by its author, car expert Clive Matthew-Wilson.

The myth and cost of a 'green' electric car - The Globe and Mail

They will be only as green as the power that drives them, and most of the jobs will go to China

F.D.R.’s Brief Dip Into Tidal Energy - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

The plan was for a huge public-works project that would include the construction of dams across two bays. The dams would impound the incoming tide and then, when the tide receded, the higher waters would be released through turbines, generating power. The project was budgeted at $36 million — a huge sum in those days — and construction of workers’ barracks and a dike began in 1935.

But the economic feasibility of the project had always been in question, and a year later Congress pulled the plug, so to speak, without any dams being built.

Climategate Investigation Only Fuels Controversy | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

If the American people are going to have to bear the consequences of this bill in a time of economic hardship, we should continue to demand a true investigation into the—shoddy at best, deceptive at worst—findings of the CRU. Allowing those that stand to profit from CO2 regulation to be the ones to investigate the science is like having a polar bear guard the seals.

Announcement and abstract of my forthcoming lecture by Dr. Martin Hertzberg | Climate Realists

Hockey Sticks and “Climategate”: a Death of Scientific Integrity

MUST READ: Ford Shareholder's proposal#8 | Climate Realists

Just thought you would enjoy this shareholder's proposal to be voted on at the May 13th meeting of the Ford Motor Company.

Post Carbon: Greens to bless climate [hoax] bill first, attack later - Juliet Eilperin

When it comes to the draft climate bill that Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) plan to unveil Monday, mainstream environmental groups are planning to praise first and criticize later.

In an e-mail obtained by The Washington Post, Heather Brutz -- field operations coordinator for the environmental coalition Clean Energy Works, outlined the group's media strategy in the coming days.
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One of the most interesting things about this coordinated plan, however, is that environmentalists still don't know the details of the bill. That may cause some to wait before jumping on board.
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[William Snape, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity] "Even if Kerry-Lieberman-Graham try to argue their bill is only an important first step, it's hard to see how throwing the successful Clean Air Act under the bus is either a gradual or sensible way to reduce the most dangerous air pollutants in human history."

AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Cold, Snow Stress China Quake Victims, Rescuers

The lofty geographic setting of Qinghai lends itself to daily extremes beyond the often-freezing nights. Among these are sudden shifts from warm sunshine to cold, wind-swept rain, snow and even hail.

It Takes Green to Fuel the F-18 Green Hornet - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The press release says that the Defense Energy Support Center, which buys fuel for the military, paid $2.7 million for 40,000 gallons of the biofuel. That works out to $67.50 a gallon, although the official Navy fact sheet says the cost was only $33 a gallon. Still, next to the $1.20 a gallon cost of petroleum-derived JP-5, it's not exactly a bargain — worse even than buying gas in Europe.

Pelosi Okay On Delaying Climate Bill in Lieu of Immigration « The Speakers Lobby

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calls controversial climate change legislation the “flagship issue of my speakership.” In fact she noted that never before has a speaker of the house been so concerned about environment and climate change.

But the speaker indicated Thursday she wouldn’t stand in the way of the Senate moving an immigration reform bill before it touches the climate package.

“If the Senate is ready with an immigration bill, we don’t want anybody holding it up for any reason,” Pelosi said. “Send it to us.”

Immigration Push in Senate May Kill Climate Bill, Graham Says - BusinessWeek

April 22 (Bloomberg) -- A push to take up an overhaul of immigration law in the U.S. Senate would kill the chances of passing energy and climate-change legislation this year, Senator Lindsey Graham said.

Bill McKibben - On Earth Day, the environmental movement needs repairs

Forty years in, we're losing.

What Would an Economy Run by ‘Climate Scientists’ Look Like? - Daniel Foster - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So atmospheric models have in a crucial instance failed to make accurate short-term predictions in a way that cost the world economy $1.7 billion. How many hundreds of billions — or trillions — are we to spend based on atmospheric modeling that reaches out centuries into the future?

Earth Day Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity « John Stossel

So ignore the Earth Day alarmism. Economic progress is what makes life better.

Tapped also suggests that because bottled water companies take water from the earth, the world will run out of water! But over the last 20 years, thanks to economic progress, a BILLION people GAINED access to improved drinking water, according to the WHO.

Liberty and Tyranny Was Right - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I fail to see why Manzi should credit the Green stunt of sneaking the name of a Spice Girl onto the Oregon Petition before its verification process. That stunt seems to me a vivid illustration of a movement that feels it necessary to sneak phony names and qualifications onto their own lists, not just others'. Not a sign of a winner, or a winning point.

Climate Common Sense: Glorious Leader Obama Mentioned 47 Times in 2010 Climate Report.

With the release of the recent Rassmussen report showing global warming alarmism at an all time low in the US, and with mid-term elections looming with the Dems poll numbers in the toilet, caution on Climate Change legislation might seem advisable but the ego-driven Obama seems determined to proceed at any cost.

Big Coal Booming on Earth Day - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

EDITORIAL: A gasoline-fueled Earth Day - Washington Times

Government subsidies spawn widespread environmental fraud

EDITORIAL: Obama's climate of fear - Washington Times

The purported science behind the global-warming fad is in full retreat these days, but word has yet to reach the White House. President Obama is determined to promote the alleged climate crisis as a lever for pushing through his big-government agenda. The O Force doesn't believe in wasting a crisis, even if it's a mirage.

Earth Day Turns 40 - Roy Spencer - National Review Online

For those whose worldview requires a pristine and undisturbed natural world, the fight to reduce pollution will never be over.

Thomson Reuters Goes Green for Earth Day -- NEW YORK and LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

In New York, Thomson Reuters is using its own giant screens in Times Square to promote Earth Day and help raise awareness of environmental issues. The screens broadcasted live the Earth Day celebrations on April 22 featuring Mayor Bloomberg, Al Gore and UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon.

The cost of Al Gore’s renewable energy plan | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Heritage Research Fellow David Kreutzer crunched the numbers and found that to meet Al Gore’s plan, with the cheapest renewable energy source, onshore wind, a family of four’s electricity bill would be almost double than if it were supplied by all coal—up from $189 a month to $340 a month. He assured Americans that we can use wind, solar and geothermal to power America. But the price only increases. Offshore wind: $404 a month. Solar thermal: $504 a month and worst of all, solar panels: $718 a month. That’s only $8,600 per family per year to cover our earth with solar panels. These calculations use data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency and while few policymakers suggest we pursue Al Gore’s 100 percent dream, it should serve as a wake-up call that the wind and the sun aren’t free sources of energy.

American Thinker: Earth Day: An Assault on Man

Earth Day is not a celebration of this glorious planet, but instead an assault on man -- and the current energy bill is an assault on America. We must equip ourselves with a complete understanding of the facts so that we can prevent these elitist social engineers from passing this liberty-sapping piece of legislation.

American Thinker: Why I Am Enlarging My Carbon Footprint

Now, if the planet is not about to crash and burn, why turn children like Emma into eco-warriors? Why condition them to take three-minute showers and lambaste their elders?

The Left's underlying goal: to convince all of us that we don't matter. Our happiness, our cleanliness, our ease of living, our money, and our time...it's the government's business, not ours. While Marxist theory celebrates the proletarian, in actuality, people become interchangeable cogs in the collective wheel.

Popular Technology.net: 700 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of "Man-Made" Global Warming

The following papers support skepticism of "man-made" global warming or the environmental or economic effects of.

Twitter / Brad Johnson

Dumb media on #EarthDay: WaPo puts #climategate on top 24 "events that have helped shape environmental policy in the U.S." http://u.nu/9m8k8

Will Anderson: The carbon-"zero" house builder - Telegraph

Including buying the land, the house cost us £500,000, but we haven’t compromised on design: it really is a bespoke house. We have no energy bills so it’s very cheap to run and I’m not planning on selling up any time soon.

The average British house uses 26,000 units of energy per year; we produce 4,400 units from solar panels on the roof and this is enough for all the heating and power throughout the year. In summer we sell surplus energy to the grid and in winter buy some of it back.

dMT/dt an improved version « Musings from the Chiefio

The sheer chaos of which way months are trending argues strongly against the CO2 ‘broadly warming’ thesis and argues strongly for an “instrumentation and process” artifacts explanation.

Public radio - Climate bill coming up, but might go down, in U.S. Senate

The Senate’s chief climate change denier, Republican James Inhofe told Fox News the bill won’t get half the votes it needs to pass.

The Global-Warming Tax - Patrick J. Michaels - National Review Online

Damn the data; full speed ahead!

Senate Trio to Unveil Climate Bill - WSJ.com

Sen. George Voinovich (R., Oh.), who has previously expressed interest in a climate bill, said pre-emption would have to be far broader than the trio is expected to propose.

"I would be surprised if there was any more Republican support," he said.

Guardian's climate debate shows green politics has grown up | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Clark was repeatedly forced to defend himself against charges that the shadow cabinet and the party membership are stuffed with climate change deniers.
...They all defended climate science and made unequivocal statements about the overriding importance of dealing with climate change.

Black bear cubs in East Tennessee left malnourished, dehydrated after harsh winter - WHNT

TOWNSEND, Tenn. (AP) — It was a long, hard winter in East Tennessee, and the black bear cubs have been especially hit hard.

Appalachian Bear Rescue in Townsend is housing 14 cubs that endured lack of food, the harsh winter and other circumstances that left them malnourished and dehydrated.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 22nd 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

It’s Earth Day. What better time to gather around the snark and sing koombaya as we throw hippie dreams of global domination and a future free of personal hygiene onto the bonfire of the realities.

[Is it powered by a wind turbine?]: NASA's Earth Day Gift Runs On a 56,832-Core, 128-Screen Climate Research Supercomputer | Popular Science

Earth Week is upon us, and NASA has prepared a very special gift for the blue planet. Dwarfing the iPods that we customarily give each other to celebrate another year of existence, NASA put together NEX, a planetary data-crunching tool that uses a 56,832-core, 128-screen supercomputer to blend global satellite data and sophisticated modeling software with an online collaborative culture aimed at helping scientists work together toward better climate change research.

The new environmentalists wear hard hats « Climate Progress

[Van Jones] Solar panels don’t put themselves up. Somebody’s actually got to get a job to put those solar panels up. Wind turbines don’t manufacture themselves. Homes don’t retrofit and weatherize themselves. So everything that is good for the environment is a job.

Volcano Crisis Could Delay Emissions Regulation, Airline Chief Says - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

The top representative for the airline industry asserted Thursday that the disruption caused by the eruption of an Icelandic volcano had undermined efforts to include aviation in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System.

NC Media Watch: New Gold Standard for measuring global warming

It will indeed be interesting to see how these rent seeking scientist respond to this new gold standard of ocean heat, it could result in the de-funding of their surface temperature charade. We already have 3000 Argo floats providing regular temperature soundings of the temperature in the upper 2000 m of the ocean. All we have to do is read the oceans thermometer to measure the earths temperature. It has been showing a cooling trend if you place a straight edge on the peak and troughs in the above graphic.

The moment to [get swindled] - Sen. John F. Kerry - POLITICO.com

Jump-starting our economy, ending oil dependence that helps hostile regimes and winning the global competition against China? Those sound like good politics to me. They are issues to campaign on.

A Green-Shirt Youth Corps - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

A simple suggestion for parents: When your kid says this to you, reply, "Great idea. Your television, computer, video games, 3-D movies, 3G phone, and iPod all use way too much electricity and resources. Thank you for agreeing to give them up to save the planet."

Avatar on Earth Day - Thomas S. Hibbs - National Review Online

A blockbuster film showcases the contradictions of organic liberalism.

EPA’s New CO2 Rules: Bad News for Racial Minorities - Deroy Murdock - National Review Online

Until the science is truly settled, would the EPA please kindly stop torturing black people?

Earth Day 2008: Predictions of Environmental Disaster Were Wrong - Press Releases

“By 1985...air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight
reaching the earth by one half” – Life magazine, January 1970
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• Ehrlich also predicted that in 1973, 200,000 Americans would die from air pollution, and that by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans would be 42 years.

Canada: Where are our climate-change leaders?

Andrew Weaver first has to stifle a laugh when he's asked about the state of political leadership in this country on confronting climate change.

Weaver is a doctor of climatology and heads the climate modelling group at the University of Victoria. "There is a void federally in terms of any significant leadership, that's pretty clear," he says when he regains composure.

WEBCommentary(tm) - Global Warming Meltdown on "Earth Day"

The well-documented fraud, misrepresentation, and collusion among climate warmists has thoroughly discredited the work of the IPCC. The meltdown of warmist hoax-mongering is a welcome change and "Earth Day" is the perfect time to observe this change with celebrations of responsible uses of our resources, including every fossil fuel available to fuel a vibrant future economy.

Deadly cargo - black widow spider found in Suffolk - News - East Anglian Daily Times

Experts have warned that with global warming, spiders escaping from cargos could set up colonies in Britain.

Global Warming Panic Attack - The Week

My plan to address the potential cataclysm of global warming is shrill, impractical and utopian. But I doubt you have a better one.
...according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, we have just experienced the hottest twelve-month period in at least a thousand years.
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So nationalize the carbon energy sector -- not to expropriate wealth or to penalize shareholders, but to remove a selfish and destructive political force that threatens our future.

More snow falls overnight at local ski resorts - OC Beach Blog

The unusual winter storm that blew through Southern California dumped another 8-to-10 inches of new snow overnight, giving snowboarders and skiers one last chance to enjoy the epic season before lifts close on Sunday night.
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Local mountains have had record snowfall this season thanks to El Nino storms.

Pajamas Media » Will Obama’s Goldman Sachs Attack Expose Al Gore? Or Other Dems?

The SEC civil charges against Goldman Sachs challenge a firm with ties to many Democrats, including Al Gore and the entire carbon trading establishment.

Earth Day 2010 - Celebrating 40 years of outrageous predictions of doom

Will the seers of today like Gore, Hansen and Lovelock be any more accurate in their predictions than Ehrlich, Nelson or Gunter was in their day?

Check back in 40 years - If humankind is still here.

Environmentalism is now a religion, and being overtaken by extremism | detnews.com | The Detroit News

When environmental religion seeks a return to an earlier primitive and natural existence, it is embracing utopian dreams that easily can pose a danger to man and earth alike.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Happy Lenin’s Birthday

After the failure of communism in Eastern Europe, promoters found their message — to give up our freedoms for the collective — didn’t really have much power. I guess they deserve some credit as marketers to have successfully gotten so many people who rejected the socialist message to buy into the plea that they need to give up all their freedoms for a 0.01% change in atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Earth Day Frivolities - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

On a day when many Americans will be reflecting upon how they can reduce their impact on the environment, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will board separate jets in Washington on Earth Day morning to fly 250 miles up the east coast to New York, where they will land at separate airports to attend separate events within a few miles of each other.

The parallel visits of Air Force One (a 747/VC-25 aircraft) and Air Force Two (a 757/C-32A aircraft) will delay dozens, if not hundreds of commercial flights at Kennedy and LaGuardia and other nearby airports as no-fly zones are implemented. Jets will be forced to circle and burn more fuel as they wait for the VIPs to come and go. Their security contingents consisting of dozens of cars, SUVs and helicopters will burn even more. Throw in thousands of commuters’ cars and delivery trucks sitting idle in traffic as law enforcement closes large swaths of the city and you have yourself a very Earth-unfriendly day.

Dr Roy's Thoughts: Hoax and fraud

The climate hoax inevitably leads to fraud. The Christian Science Monitor reveals one such massive fraud. makes the greenies feel good about themselves and accomplishes less than nothing.

How Would Specter And Lincoln Vote? -- Energy Section

The re-elections of Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania won't hinge on the climate issue, but if a bill makes it to the Senate floor, these two moderate Democratic incumbents facing tough primary challenges could be walking an even finer line than they already are.

Networks play Captain Planet, downplay ClimateGate and other scandals | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

As the mainstream media celebrate 40 years of eco-madness in the name of “saving the planet” it’s time to discuss the story they’ve been ignoring for months.

The credibility of the global warming alarmism movement is melting faster than the bogus claim that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035, thanks to more than a dozen climate science scandals since the ClimateGate e-mails were leaked in November 2009.

WaPo Earth Day Story Finds Glum Greens Struggling to Sell 'Slippery' Climate Scare | NewsBusters.org

...Now that's the environmental movement too often papered over by the press -- the ones who hate consumerism, hate energy use, and when it comes down to it, just thinks there are too many ignorant and piggish humans befouling the planet. There's a deep streak of misanthropy lurking, going back to Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, predicting a "die-back" as the inevitable consequence of mass ignorance. Except it never happened -- just like catastrophic global warming may never happen.

Global warming: Examiner exclusive interview with Richard Tol: IPCC was 'captured'

Richard Tol writes of the IPCC being captured by political activists and how that colored the IPCC report AR4 in 2007. He also characterises the Oxburgh report on Climategate as 'harsh criticism', saying the report faulted their performance on their mission critical duties. As Professor Tol participated in the IPCC process since 1995, his criticism of the IPCC's internal processes and procedures should be take seriously. He has worked within the system he is criticizing.

Biofuels Cause Four Times More Carbon Emissions

Green fuels made from soy beans cause four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to a European report into biofuels.

The Mark Gillar Show on Blog Talk Radio

Marc Morano's ClimateDepot.com site has become ground zero in the war between global warming skeptics and alarmists. Join us [tonight] as General Morano gives us his take on current and upcoming battles.  [Also download interviews with Christopher Monckton, Patrick Michaels, Ann McElhinney, and Jo Nova here]

The Significance of the E-Mail Interchange with Kevin Trenberth and Josh Willis « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

It will be illuminating and informative to see how NCDC (Tom Karl), GISS (Jim Hansen), and CRU (Phil Jones) respond to this recognition that it is time to move past the surface temperature trend as the “gold standard” of global warming.

James Cameron slams Alberta oil

"I think it's bad, I think it's the wrong solution for us to be doing greater and greater environmental damage pursuing a dead-end paradigm, which is fossil fuels, instead of spending those billions ... on building wind turbines," Cameron said Tuesday from his home in Los Angeles.

"Those same areas are a great wind belt and we could be generating ... wind energy out of the same place. Why aren't we doing that?"

To demonstrate the errors of our ways, why doesn't Cameron power his mansion (and all of his travel) solely by wind turbines and solar panels?

[Nice quote roundup here]: Twenty Years of Advocacy, Not Journalism, on Global Warming

Even After ClimateGate Scandal, Reporters Have Pushed a One-Sided "Sky Is Falling" Mantra on Climate Change

Labour and Lib Dems attack Tory climate scepticism - 22 Apr 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

Asked by the debate's chair, Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, if he could confirm reports from Conservative blogger Tim Montgomerie that six of the shadow cabinet did not accept the scientific case for man-made climate change and 80 per cent of the wider Conservative Party are climate sceptics, shadow energy and climate change secretary Greg Clark said that "was not my experience ".

He also countered that all of the three main parties have climate sceptics in their ranks. He argued that politicians should not vilify those who doubt climate science and instead should focus on persuading them of the wider case for cutting carbon emissions.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » An Earth Day Message for Green Hollywood

Happy Earth Day folks, or as we like to call it: Guilt Day. And, of all the people who are going to spend today hoping to shame you into remorse for being a dirty, rotten, polluter who is gradually destroying Mother Earth through your brazen use of automobiles and the reckless abandon with which you utilize incandescent light bulbs (aka: light bulbs that actually produce light), is anyone more annoyingly hypocritical than the denizens of Hollywood?

[China: Unusually cold weather delays cotton planting] - BusinessWeek

India, the world’s second-largest cotton producer and supplier, suspended new exports from April 19. Planting in China, the biggest grower, has been delayed by more than 10 days due to unusually cold weather, a state-backed research body said.

Carbon trading's dubious salesmen:Goldstein | Lorrie Goldstein

Today's question is this:

Would you buy a used carbon market from the following self-proclaimed "masters of the universe"?

That is, the same giant investment houses that just finished helping to crash the global economy by recklessly trading in risky subprime mortgage loans and other bizarre investment vehicles few people understood?

Reuters AlertNet - INTERVIEW-Global climate deal best option, but road rough-UN

[Achim Steiner, UNEP executive director]: "Do not write Cancun off."
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"The premise that the integrity of the IPCC has been compromised is something that I reject," he said.

About Achim Steiner

His educational background includes a BA from the University of Oxford as well as an MA from the University of London with specialization in development economics, regional planning, and international development and environment policy.

CNSNews.com - James Cameron: Climate Change ‘As Great As The Threat’ U.S. Faced in World War II

His comments were made during a panel discussion about environmental policy on Capitol Hill with columnist Tom Friedman of the New York Times, actress Sigourney Weaver, and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.

“I spoke to leaders today that said we can’t use the term climate change,” Cameron said on Apr. 15. “It’s death. It’ll kill the bill. It’ll be still-born, strangle it in its crib by calling it, associating it with climate change. I say, ‘We have to wake up. We have to wake up and call it what it is.’”

Bangladesh-gate: Yet another massive "error" by the IPCC

AFP: Challenge to IPCC's Bangladesh climate predictions

DHAKA — Scientists in Bangladesh posed a fresh challenge to the UN's top climate change panel Thursday, saying its doomsday forecasts for the country in the body's landmark 2007 report were overblown.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under fire for errors in the 2007 report, had said a one-metre (three-foot) rise in sea levels would flood 17 percent of Bangladesh and create 20 million refugees by 2050.
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But IPCC's prediction did not take into account the one billion tonnes of sediment carried by Himalayan rivers into Bangladesh every year, which are crucial in countering rises in sea levels, the study funded by the Asian Development Bank said.

"Sediments have been shaping Bangladesh's coast for thousands of years," said Maminul Haque Sarker, director of the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), who led research for the study.
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"Based on the findings of the study, it appears that most of Bangladesh's coastline, notably the Meghna estuary, which is one of the largest in the world, would rise at the same pace as the sea level growth," he said.

Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial - WSJ.com

Global warming alarmists have been discredited, but you wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric this Earth Day.

PostPartisan - John Kerry's climate-change battle

Going the energy-only route would be so inadequate, Kerry told me this week, that he would “probably” vote against an energy-only bill. And, he said, he would do even more than that. On the Senate floor, he would propose amendment after amendment derived from the comprehensive bill he is currently helping to draft. “It would be a very, very long process,” he said.

World Climate Report » Earth Day 40

Climategate clearly shows a pervasive attempt to paint, in the words of one of its tree ring experts, Keith Briffa, a “nice, tidy story” about global warming. In the same emails, Phil Jones, Briffa’s boss, wishes for global warming to resume so that he can be proven right. Some objectivity.

Video: Larry Brilliant on the volcano and climate change - Boing Boing

Here, Larry Brilliant — the former head of Google.org who famously helped end the smallpox epidemic in 1980 — gives me a post-TEDx recap of what he thinks of the volcano and climate change. "Climate change is the great exacerbator," he says.

[Is Larry suggesting that the perfect Earth temperature is about 57 degrees F, and beyond that, all problems get worse?!]

The average temperature of Earth's surface has varied between 13.8 and 14.6 degrees Celsius (56.8 and 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit) during the period from 1950 to 1999.

In the year 1999, the average global temperature was approximately 14.4 degrees Celsius (57.9 degrees Fahrenheit).

NIH-led Interagency Group Identifies Research Needs to Study Climate Change and Human Health Impacts, April 21, 2010, News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The white paper highlights the state-of-the-science on the human health consequences of climate change on:
# Asthma, respiratory allergies, and airway diseases
# Mental health and stress-related disorders
# Cancer
# Neurological diseases and disorders
# Cardiovascular disease and stroke
# Waterborne diseases
# Foodborne diseases and nutrition
# Weather-related morbidity and mortality
# Heat-related morbidity and mortality
# Vectorborne and zoonotic diseases (like malaria, which can be transmitted from animals to humans)
# Human developmental effects

[Fraudster wants to brainwash your children]

‘‘Earth Day activities have, since 1970, educated and mobilized people worldwide for environment protection and it is with this vision TERI believes in catching the young minds and orienting them towards environmental stewardship,’’ said Dr Pachauri, director general, TERI.

Special Report: Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climate Change Science

ABC, CBS and NBC ignore ClimateGate scandal and still advance left-wing global warming agenda.

Reid, Pelosi Agree to Move on Immigration Reform This Year - Roll Call

Democratic leaders are pushing ahead with plans to move comprehensive immigration reform legislation this year — even if it means punting on energy legislation until next Congress.
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During the meeting, Reid “reiterated his intention to move forward” this year on immigration reform, one aide said, adding that Pelosi agreed it is a top priority, even beyond energy legislation.

“The Speaker did agree that if faced with a choice between energy and immigration, she’d go with immigration,” the aide said.

Richard Littlemore | Climate Scientist Sues National Post

The 48-page Statement of Claim (attached) sets out a National Post pattern of reporting critical and erroneous material about Weaver and, in recent times, refusing to retract or correct when inaccuracies are brought to the paper's attention.

Author predicts solar power will reduce dependency on oilsands - 660News

Author Alastair Sweeny says it's hard to get mad at what he calls 'global warming evangelists.'

"They find that demonizing the sands is good business. That's their business, I suppose, but I think it's not working anymore. People aren't buying it," he says.

No Frakking Consensus: Dr. Pachauri, Call Your Office

It's important to recognize the profound threat to free speech Pachauri's line of argument represents. By suggesting that his own opinions are never political but that those of his critics are entirely so, Pachauri attempts to de-legitimize voices with whom he disagrees.

Jerry Lackey: Earth Day opportunity to challenge 'going green' myths » Standard-Times

“We believe that the United Nations climate change community has a political agenda,” [Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples] said. “We need to base our decisions on scientific data, that is peer reviewed and is done in the light of day. We think that is a critical element on how we need to make decisions in this state and this country.”

Branson’s War on Global Warming Turns to Market-Based Solution - Bloomberg.com

April 21 (Bloomberg) -- Solutions to global warming will create more wealth than any other business in the next decade, said Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group Ltd.

Branson, at a conference in Washington today, formally unveiled his Carbon War Room, a group of entrepreneurs seeking market-driven solutions to climate change. Members include Craig Cogut, founder and co-managing Partner of Pegasus Capital Advisors and retired U.S. Army general Wesley Clark.

Congress may push immigration over climate bill | Reuters

During the meeting, Pelosi and Reid discussed which bills the Senate might be able to pass this year, according to one House Democratic leadership aide. The aide said that Pelosi told Reid "if you can do immigration first, that's fine."
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Another senior House Democratic aide, who also asked not to be identified, said that both Pelosi and Reid talked about the importance of passing immigration reform this year.

"I don't remember there being a real conversation" on climate legislation during Tuesday's meeting, the aide added.

Senate “Energy Only” Bill Under Development

Republican Senators George Voinovich (OH) and Richard Lugar (IN) are working on an “energy-only” bill that would require new renewable and nuclear power production, but would not impose cuts on carbon emissions.
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Senator Voinovich said that he believes a toned down, more practical energy-only bill is the only chance to address climate change this year.

Big business support for climate bill elusive | Reuters

(Reuters) - U.S. senators crafting a compromise climate change bill have held months of meetings with oil, coal and manufacturing interests, but so far have failed to gain the ironclad words of support many think will be necessary for passing legislation.

» What a Piece of Work Is Man: Hubris and the Scientific Illiterates in the MSM - Big Journalism

There’s only one word to describe people who actually believe that mankind can control nature: MSM journalists.

Bolivia's president makes a laughable claim; also suggests that eating chicken makes you gay

Bolivia's President Links Homosexuality To Eating Chicken | Eurasia Review

Morales maintained that the wealthy countries of the world have a debt with the rest of the planet because the “atmospheric space” is “filled with the emission of winter-effect gases.”
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Morales also claimed that “Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things,” said the 50 year old leader. He also claimed that the presence of homosexual men around the world is a consequence of inadequate nutrition. According to Morales, this is due to eating chicken saturated with feminizing hormones “The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.” Laughter emerged from the audience.

Lead Economist for State Analysis Linked to Pro-Climate Law Campaign - NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- The chief economist [Larry Goulder, a professor at Stanford University] behind a recent state-sponsored report that found California's climate law would do little to upset the state economy is on the board of directors of a nonprofit group that has transferred money to a political campaign to defend the measure from those who want it suspended.

[Insane] Earth Day Cartoons « Climate Progress

Taxes drive gas prices to over $7 a gallon in UK, mass boycott coming soon — Autoblog

Through the power of Facebook, up to a half a million drivers in the UK are expected to boycott gas next month shortly before the nation heads to the polls for a general election in which Prime Minister (PM) Gordon Brown is fighting stiff competition for the win.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: What Climate Science?

Here is a thought experiment:

Can you imagine any discoveries or conclusions in climate science would indicate that accelerated decarbonization of the global economy does not make sense?

Answer: No

Clean energy jobs can be shipped overseas (and what to do about it) | Grist

Politicians talking about clean energy jobs like to claim "they can't be shipped overseas." From President Obama's State of the Union to Rep. Ed Markey stumping for the climate bill he co-authored with Rep. Henry Waxman, the promise of new "green jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced" is an all too common refrain.

The only problem with it is that it's wrong on its face.

America is already exporting clean energy jobs -- or seeing them created abroad in the first place.

7 Books Which Will have the Preschooler Set Teaching You How to be Green : TreeHugger

...at the end of a long day, I'm not usually with it enough to sit down and explain the current thinking on global warming to my four-year-old. It's at these moments that I grab one of these great green books for the preschooler set.

Britain facing further bitterly cold winters 'due to drop in solar winds' | Mail Online

Horse racing on frozen rivers? Ice bowling? Activities last seen during Britain's Little Ice Age could once more be seen, researchers believe.

Having just emerged from a bitterly cold winter the experts are warning that Britain could return to the mini ice-age at the end of the 17th century. This is despite claims that global warming is causing Arctic ice to melt and temperatures to rise.

The Climate Ecosystem, Part II « the Air Vent

[Tom Fuller] It is instructive to recall that Morano and Romm had a televised debate that lasted about ten minutes last year. Morano (in my opinion) won the debate, because he was able to frame the discussion on his terms. Had it been purely about science, Romm would have slaughtered him...[Using what specific arguments, Tom?]

Tim Wirth: “The president should deliver a major speech on climate change to the American public, using all the props and charts he can muster to bring the message home. The public interest requires it.” « Climate Progress

The Senate’s Bait-and-Switch on Cap-and-Trade | The Foundry

Americans should make no distinction between cap-and-trade, energy taxes or an RES. Granting the government a more prominent, powerful role in selecting our energy sources will guarantee energy that is more expensive and less consumer choice in the future. Backroom deals. Less consumer choice. More expensive. Sounds a lot like ObamaCare.

Senate Democrats Put Reconciliation for Cap and Trade National Energy Tax in Budget Language - HUMAN EVENTS

Senate Democrats have included language in their 2011 budget resolution that would allow Democrats to try to ram through the massive cap and trade tax increase with only 51 votes in the Senate, according to a report in The Hill newspaper today.

Some Comments on Earth’s “Missing Energy” « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

I’m sorry, but at some point we need to ask whether all of this missing warming and energy are missing because they really do not exist.

Goofy Theory of the Day | Climate Skeptic

I sometimes wonder if we will see a future SAT question whose answer is “climate studies are to science as alchemy is to chemistry”.

Insulation promise dumped

THE Rudd government is set to renege on a promise to relaunch the $1000 home insulation rebate, focusing instead on fixing the tens of thousands of installations that were botched under the original scheme.

Canada says no to 'Robin Hood' tax - Brandon Sun

Proponents envision a small charge slapped on every financial transaction between financial institutions. It would target trading in currencies, stocks, derivatives and bonds. The tax would average about 0.05 per cent of the value of the transaction, or about 50 cents for every thousand dollars.

It would raise about $650 billion a year if the NGOs have their way. Half of that would go to domestic coffers. The other half would be split between aid for poor countries and mitigating climate change.