ideo Essay: Perry Vs. Global Warming in NH

GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters Wednesday that he does not believe in manmade global warming. The AP talked with event attendees and analysts about Perry's comments. (Aug. 18)

Ed Stelmach looks back with no anger - The Globe and Mail

History may yet be kind to Ed Stelmach, the soft-spoken farmer now in the waning days of his time as Alberta’s premier.
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[Q] These are all questions in a carbon-aware world. Do you believe in climate change?

It doesn’t matter. That’s not the issue here. The issue is that it could be used as an instrument for some jurisdiction to put a tax or some restriction. Climate is changing. It always has. Now, is it changing faster? Slower? I don’t know. But there’s certainly enough of an issue there that we’ve got scientists on both sides saying no, that’s not true. I, as the trustee for the owners of the resource, have to make sure nobody can create any trade issues for us.

Speeding Towards A Record Minimum | Real Science

The ice is the thinnest and least extensive on record. The remaining ice is all rotten, because last year was the hottest in history. We are experiencing a strong El Nino and this past summer was the hottest and driest in US history. Drought ravages the planet and millions flee the heat and rising sea levels. Malaria carrying mosquitoes and rabid bats are spreading across the planet due to record high sea surface temperatures and the most named storms in history.

This can mean only one thing – record low ice this summer.

A Republican Shout-Out for Wind Energy - NYTimes.com

At the Saturday straw poll in Iowa, the G.O.P. contenders Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Thaddeus McCotter autographed a giant 130-foot wind turbine blade to show their support for Iowa’s burgeoning wind industry as a source of home-grown job creation.