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Chabot, who worked with many Silicon Valley leaders to overwhelmingly defeat a 2010 ballot measure that would have overturned the state’s climate change law, has heard tech leaders say that “climate deniers are going to have a bit of a harder time getting their calls returned.”

“It’s not a black-and-white litmus test,” Chabot said. “But I’m sure when they come to California, they will talk about business incentives and tax breaks and not talk about climate at all. They want money out of the Silicon Valley ATMs, so they’ll probably be silent.”

Hot air and fading hope in Washington’s climate fix - The Globe and Mail

It has been a brutal summer for climate change ‘deniers’ and, perhaps, an even nastier one for greens.

Washington is a long way from the North Pole but the hot air is everywhere.
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The planet’s vital white skullcap – the reflective dome of Arctic ice – is thinning, scattered and melting towards new record lows. Icebreakers are crunching easily through weak ice close to the pole, shipping lanes are wide open north of Russia and Canada and there’s a new resource rush.

As the September end of the annual melt season approaches, the closely watched maps of ice ‘area’ and ‘extent’ may both match, or even beat, the 2007 record. Even if they don’t, the trend line is clear: ice-free Arctic summers aren’t decades away, more likely years. Overall Arctic ice volume is falling fast.
...The deniers are losing the debate and may end up like the ‘flat-earth’ society, making a silly last stand to the growing bemusement of everyone else. But so far the grim state of the global economy – and especially America’s sputtering recovery – has dashed the hopes of environmentalists that Barack Obama would herald a greener era.

Pyne out to thwart 'rushed' carbon vote - ABC Sydney - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Opposition says it will use whatever means necessary to thwart the Government's ambition for a vote on its carbon tax legislation next month.

Leonardo's 'green team' killing jobs and scaremongering

Leonardo DiCaprio ought to stick to acting. When it comes to environmentalist activism, his favorite organization is going from failed policy initiatives to scare tactics.

Leo is heavily involved (and heavily subsidizing, no doubt) a group called the National Resources Defense Council , which is a hard-left, environmental advocacy group. But as nice and wonderful as "protecting" the earth sounds, the NRDC is choosing policy prescriptions that just don't work.