An Island Adviser Sees Promise in Durban Climate Talks - NYTimes.com

[Pie-throwing warmist Mark Lynas] At the Cartagena meeting it was acknowledged by most that Kyoto is really only a political issue – it makes no great difference to the climate what happens with it.

EPA: By 2025, Pigs Will Fly - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Washington’s press corps this afternoon dutifully parroted the White House announcement that by 2025, cars must get 54.5 mpg. And we’ll put humans on Neptune.

World Climate Report » Atlantic Hurricanes: Fewer, Worse…Less Menacing?

As we noted up front, the level of natural variability manifest through the interactions of many different processes ultimately overwhelms the pure signal from anthropogenic “global warming” and so detecting an influence like that identified by Wang and colleagues, much less assigning global warming as the cause (even partially) becomes virtually impossible. But at least this work helps dispel notions that landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. are “consistent” with expectations from “global warming.”

From Global Warming To Spot Heating – UN Scientists Scale Back, Roll Out Latest Scare Story (Again)

Der Spiegel reports today how the UN has just come out with a new report that now claims the big threat is local heat waves and freak storms.

That’s quite a change from global-wide warming and sea level rise.

On the Alert for Misleading Ads - NYTimes.com

When the F.T.C. issues the new green marketing guidelines in the United States, he said, fines could be warranted for companies making false or misleading green claims — just as the commission recently fined Reebok $25 million over an ad campaign claiming that its toning shoes could strengthen a wearer’s buttocks, legs and thighs. The penalty went toward consumer refunds.