2007: Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions."

Natural Gas Is on a Roll, Executive Declares - NYTimes.com

Mr. Akins said he was somewhat concerned that the nation may end up too reliant on natural gas, particularly given the history of price volatility of natural gas. The price has dropped from $10.8 per thousand cubic feet at the wellhead as of July 2008 to $2.89 as of January.

Warning Signs: Coincidences, Truth, and Propaganda

As for wind energy, Reuters reporter Andy Sullivan recently reported that the industry actually “shed 10,000 jobs since 2009 even as the energy capacity of wind farms doubled.” To put this in context, Sullivan also reported that “the oil and gas industry has added 75,000 jobs since Obama took office.”

Will Mitt Romney Recycle George W. Bush's Global Warming Fiasco? - Forbes

Romney made a tremendous mistake on climate change when he was Governor of Massachusetts, when he tapped John Holdren, a radical population-control advocate, to advise him on his cap-and-trade proposal (!).  Holdren is now President Obama’s Science Advisor and is the eminence behind all of the Administration’s green shenanigans.

Needless to say, this, along with  his chosen environmental advisors, makes a lot of people nervous, perhaps too nervous to go out and vote.  So, in order to calm people’s fears, here’s a series of campaign promises that Mr. Romney needs to make:

More debunking of the ex-NASA 49 climate change deniers | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

I find a lot of the climate change deny-o-sphere pretty baffling. A lot of the claims are trivially wrong, a lot more are cherry-picked and can be seen to be wrong when presented in the correct context, and others are just spin and rhetoric ("carbon dioxide is plant food!") that is facile at best and outright nonsense at worst. Of course, many of them touted this letter by the ex-NASA 49 as more proof that climate change is wrong. Amazing.