Presentation from Oregon global warming skeptics rescheduled for late January | OregonLive.com

After being rebuffed by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Oregon's chapter of the American Meteorological Society has scheduled three skeptics of man-made global warming to speak Jan. 25 at the Portland Airport Shilo Inn.

OMSI pulled the plug on the climate skeptic presentation in late November, saying the panel wasn't balanced. The presentation features former Oregon state climatologist George Taylor, Portland meteorologist Chuck Wiese and physicist Gordon Fulks.
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Pierce said Oregon AMS membership favors a balanced approach, including views from both sides. The group has hosted meetings featuring speakers who support the theory that manmade emissions are warming the earth, and plans to host an additional meeting in the spring featuring supporters of that view.

New York Times Green Jobs Editorial Written in Bizarro World

On the first day of 2012, the New York Times published an editorial, “Where the Real Jobs Are,” that is uniformly backwards. If the federal government did the exact opposite of every recommendation made by the New York Times editorial board, Americans would benefit the most.

According to the Times, President Barack Obama should reject the shovel-ready Keystone XL Pipeline, because it would carry “conventional” oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. The editorial board then suggests that “real” jobs are those in the sector of the economy responsible for the production of “alternative” energy, like wind and solar power.  Instead of allowing the private sector to create 6,000 (presumably fake) jobs by permitting the Keystone XL, the Times argues that the President should “lay out the case that industry, with government help, can create hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs.” In the Times’s mind, Europe has shown the way

Rick Perry advocates solution to climate problem he doesn’t believe in | Grist

Of all the GOP candidates, Rick Perry has been perhaps the most fervently dismissive of the reality of human-caused climate change. So why does his energy plan include a provision for "clean coal" technology, which is used to capture carbon dioxide and pump it underground?

A Clue In The Identity Of The ClimateGate Email Hacker?

Are we any closer to finding out who released those emails?  The most common theory was that it was actually someone from East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit - an inside job by someone troubled at the efforts by CRU researchers to block opposing research.  Former employees [which ones?] likened the atmosphere there to a global warming cult and an inside job by someone so far on the left they actually care about freedom might be even harder for Greenpeace to believe than that right wing people learned how to use a computer.