Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Snow Blankets the Southwest Desert - weather.com

This is a collection of photos showing the clash of a winter with a
landscape more synonymous with the broiling heat of summer.

Analysis: Canada's Kyoto withdrawal began when Bush bolted - Yahoo!7

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's widely criticized withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol ends a decade-long saga that began in earnest when former President George W. Bush walked away from the global climate change treaty in 2001.

The close links between the two economies, and the fact the United States has a population almost 10 times larger than that of Canada, meant that Ottawa ultimately felt it had to follow Washington's lead and ignore the diplomatic fallout.

Romney hits Gingrich over Pelosi climate ad - The Hill's E2-Wire

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor trying to regain the frontrunner mantle, tells the Post that when Republicans “needed a leader to stand up against cap and trade, he did an ad with Nancy Pelosi about global warming.”

‘Carbon dioxide has zero effect on global warming’ — RT

­According to Corbyn, the solar activity – not carbon dioxide – is behind climate change.

“I don’t believe in man-made climate change because there is no evidence for it. In fact, carbon dioxide is controlled by world temperatures rather than the other way around,” he told RT. “Climate change is going on, and the key aspects of the big, very extreme events that happened in the last 18 months were predicted by us, the Weather Action, using solar activity.

“Carbon dioxide has zero effect, I repeat: zero effect, no effect whatsoever.”

Munich Re Describes Climate Conference Results as 'Disappointing'

From Munich Re’s perspective, the recently concluded climate summit in Durban “yielded disappointing results that fail to reflect the world climate’s dramatic situation.”

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