Environmental Lobby Urges EU to Ban UN Carbon Offsets After 2020 - Businessweek

The European Union should ban the use of United Nations-approved carbon offsets from its emissions-trading system, or ETS, by 2020, an environmental group said in a submission to the European Commission.

EU should give all ETS cash to industry: Dutch official - News - Point Carbon

AMSTERDAM, March 6 (Reuters Point Carbon) – EU governments should divert all revenues raised from selling carbon permits to heavy industry to help invest in low carbon technologies, a Dutch official said Wednesday, adding that such a move would ease company lobbying against tougher emission reduction targets in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Man-made global warming theory is falsified by satellite water vapor observations

An analysis of NASA satellite data shows that water vapor, the most important greenhouse gas, has declined in the upper atmosphere causing a cooling effect that is 16 times greater than the warming effect from man-made greenhouse gas emissions during the period 1990 to 2001.
The world has spent over $ 1 trillion on climate change mitigation based on climate models that don’t work.

The Blackboard » Special Blackboard Version of Drop Reality Cartoon

As some know, I started out as a “newbie” but advanced to included ‘carbon crusher’ and earned the rank of “detective”.

Unfortunately, for some unexplained reason, my account was unceremoniously cancelled.

Why is the Environment So Boring? | Mother Jones

But let's face it: the reason they did this is almost certainly that the blog wasn't getting much traffic (and, therefore, not generating much advertising revenue). So a more constructive question is: Why do readers—even the well-educated, left-leaning readers of the Times—find environmental news so boring? Is it because we all write about it badly? Is it something inherent in the subject itself? Is it because most people think we don't really have any big environmental problems anymore aside from climate change? Or is it because it's just such a damn bummer to read endlessly about all the stuff we should stop doing because, somehow, it will end up destroying a rain forest somewhere?

Sarah Silverman, 42, strips down to reveal tiny shorts and kinky tights at environmental event honoring Al Gore | Mail Online

The 42-year-old performed a mini striptease on the red carpet, removing her coat to reveal tiny silk shorts and thigh-high stockings as she posed prior to the university's Institute Of The Environment And Sustainability's Second Annual An Evening Of Environmental Excellence recognising Al Gore and philanthropist Lyn Lear.