Rick Santorum Doesn’t Drink AGW Koolaid

I like people who can think for themselves. I like a person who can look at the evidence for AGW (composed of guesswork, circumstantial evidence and fudged computer models) on one hand, and look at the mountainous evidence pointing to natural and cyclic climate change on the other, and have the courage to face the obvious conclusion.

Brazil Coffee Areas to Escape Frost in Next 15 Days, Somar Says - Bloomberg

Frost in Brazilian growing regions can damage trees bearing the following year’s crop. Coffee futures soared to a record $3.375 a pound in 1977 after damage from frosts in Brazil two years earlier, according to Bloomberg data. Frost in 1994 damaged 35 percent of the crop by 1997, according to Somar, sending prices up to $3.18 a pound that year.

In brief: Showers, warming after record low - Spokesman.com - June 10, 2011

Spokane’s early morning temperature on Thursday dropped to 39 degrees at 3:20 a.m., breaking a record that dates back to 1999.

[Warmist Joel] Connelly: Greed of radical Greens threat to environment - seattlepi.com

...there is a threat to Babbitt's sage advice -- arrogant, insular, radical greens who wage war on the automobile and try to block public access to our great outdoors.

We see it in Seattle with the my-way-and-no-highway policies of Mayor Mike McGinn, a former local Sierra Club leader. We saw it last week in the Suiattle River of Snohomish County: A lawsuit blocked repair of an historic road that leads to trailheads used by generations.

The suit has outraged Dan Evans, Washington's greatest "green" governor and, as a U.S. Senator, architect of the million-acre Washington Wilderness Act and the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.

"I get mad every time I read about these sanctimonious hard-liners using the marbled murrelet and spotted owl for every road washout they want to avoid rebuilding," said Evans, still hiking in his 80s.

"They want good trail access for their own current abilities (someday they will be 85!) but want to limit access so much that eventually there will be no support in Congress to fund maintenance of wilderness areas."