Bluegrass Pundit: Unlikely: 1000 children are dying every day due to global warming...

First, it isn't that warm now. We are at the same level as the Medieval Warm Period a few centuries ago. Second, History has taught us that the global population expands during interglacial periods and contracts during ice ages. Warming saves lives

Mitt Romney and the rising seas - The Daily Collegian

I find it upsetting that Romney doesn’t take the fate of our planet seriously, doesn’t take science seriously and is probably not the type of guy who would “share” a picture on Facebook of a lonely polar bear standing on a tiny floating ice cap in the middle of the sea.

Snow and frost hit Brazilian apple crop

The unusual snow and frost that have been unleashed on the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina since Monday have the potential to damage the country’s apple crop, website Revistagloborural.globo.com reported.

Brazilian Association of Apple Producers (ABPM) president Pierre Nicolas Péres, told the website it was still too early to calculate the impact, but the damage could be seen in orchards with fruit badly burned.

Peter Foster: Bald-faced ­climate policy | FP Comment | Financial Post

Cap and trade is in fact a parody of a market, since it involves buying and selling a phantasmagorical non-commodity created by bureaucratic fiat, and is thus open to infinite corruption and abuse. The EU trading system is in a shambles. Such schemes are still alive — and even spreading — because they are supported by bureaucrats and traders (Enron was a big fan), and because poor countries are still attracted by the prospect of selling non-activity, or being on the receiving end of free “Clean Development.”

What nobody took sufficient note of last week was the insanity of any government taking job-destroying, self-handicapping measures of any shape or form that could have no possible effect on the global climate, which, we might remember, is what this is all meant to be about.
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Discussions about the relative efficiency of carbon taxes versus cap and trade versus regulation make little sense outside the context of a global agreement, and yet such an agreement seems increasingly improbable. The failure of Copenhagen was followed by the failure of Cancun, which was followed by the failure of Durban, and now there remains a “Durban Platform” atop which to concoct the next failure.