Northwest Herald | The global warming merry-go-around

I know that what they told me in elementary school has not come to pass. I was taught in a New York State classroom in the 1980s that by now half of the U.S. would be underwater. I may be exaggerating a little, but the proclamations really were that dire, and they were presented as fact. On that basis, I think it’s healthy to have a little skepticism.
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Weather is not climate, folks. If the global average temperature went up five degrees, we’d have catastrophes all over the globe, but it’d still snow in Richmond in mid-December. And if global warming is nonsense, we’ll still have 95-degree summer days from time to time.

Research funding aimed at restoring buzz to beekeepers

On top of other problems, cold weather and lack of sunshine this summer on Vancouver Island has meant fewer flowers. Producers have had to feed bee hives sugar water.

NPR Anchor: Rick Perry Goes 'Against All Evidence' on Warming | NewsBusters.org

Liberals like Robert Siegel can't stand anyone questioning the scientific theory of global warming, and left out large chunks of what Perry said. The governor of Texas mentioned politicized data manipulation (as seen in the Climategate e-mails) and questioned whether we should spend trillions of dollars to combat a future threat that may not be so threatening.

Coalition to keep carbon [dioxide hoax] farming

The federal coalition has found something amongst the government's climate change initiatives that it won't overturn: carbon farming.

The package of bills to set up a voluntary scheme for farmers to sell carbon credits direct to businesses passed into law on Tuesday after the lower house agreed to amendments added by the Senate.

What tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline mean for climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Over 1 billion tons of equivalent CO2 emissions is a substantial chunk of emissions. We recently discussed The Critical Decade report produced by the Climate Commission established by the Australian government. Their report concluded that humanity can emit not more than 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 between 2000 and 2050 to have a probability of about 75% of limiting temperature rise to 2°C or less. According to the latest data, between 2000 and 2010 we emitted approximately 300 billion tons of CO2, so after 20% of the allotted timeframe, we're already over 30% of the way through the allotted emissions.  [Would the planet be measurably warmer with the pipeline in place?  How much warmer?]