‘The environmental movement has lost its way’ | Energy | News | Financial Post

Q: NASA scientist James Hansen says developing oil sands is “game over” for the climate. Do you agree with his assessment?

A: This is advocacy and has no basis in science, yet is stated by a leading scientist in the ranks of the global warming community. With or without the oil sands, humans will continue to burn fossil fuels. The oil sands are one of many sources of oil and gas.

Q: You also mentioned Al Gore in your testimony. How do you rate his work and do you think An Inconvenient Truth painted an accurate picture of the environmental issues facing the earth.

A: Mr. Al Gore is a politician, and an opportunist who gains much from the business of global warming alarmism. An Inconvenient Truth is a pack of lies and misrepresentations. It has done much to damage science. It states that CO2 is implicated in the increases in temperature in the ice ages when we know that it lags temperature by almost a millennium. His team has written and distributed a children’s book on global warming that has the audacity to switch the CO2 and temperature curves for the ice ages to show CO2 increasing first, followed by temperature. A scientist to deliberately misrepresent facts would lose his job.

Frozen River Danube costing shippers millions - seattlepi.com

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Shippers say they are losing millions in trade because a lengthy stretch of the River Danube in Europe is stuck in the longest freeze in its recent history.

Close to 100 die from cold in Poland - National

Five more people died of hypothermia, last night, reports the Interior Ministry, bringing the death toll from the deep freeze in Poland to 97.

Me against the world: The trouble with travel and the climate | Grist

My personal carbon offset plan has bogged down with a serious case of the Couldas.

What does new glacier data mean for the climate debate? | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

All too often in the past, media reports have presented a 'black and white' view of glacier response to climate change.