Fracking support becomes bipartisan as both parties see economic benefits - Washington Times

In a piece for the New York Daily News, [Democrat and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed] Rendell touted the benefits of fracking that he saw firsthand as drilling in the Marcellus Shale helped revive long-depressed towns in the western and northern reaches of Pennsylvania.

It’s just one example of how fracking has earned unusually broad support from across the political spectrum, breaking down partisan barriers in surprising ways.

C3: U.S. Breadbasket At Risk From Global Cooling NOAA Indicates - Crop Failures, World Hunger A Result?

While left-leaning U.S. politicians, bureaucrats and the partisan mainstream press continue to push the silly catastrophic AGW hysteria from human CO2 emissions, a significant cooling trend (per NOAA) across a critically important global breadbasket continues - if the latest 15-year global cooling trend persists, crop yields will suffer immensely

UNEP now pushing nature onto business balance sheets | The View From Here

Now, according to Steiner, we need to add a “pollution footprint” to our “carbon footprint”

Letter to Sir Mark Walport putting a question to the Government’s Sci-Tech Committee | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Since it is now evident to anyone making an impartial assessment of the current level of uncertainty in the institutionally entrenched climate science paradigm that the question of the dominance of carbon dioxide as a climate forcing is very much an open one, how wide does the government intend to open the public purse to pay for the construction of ‘carbon capture and storage’ infrastructure, when it is clear from the most rudimentary cost benefit analysis that this is pure tokenism, even accepting the IPCC’s own figures on the thermal effectiveness of extra airborne CO2?

I have an additional question for your own consideration as a scientist:

If the negative phases of natural variations are sufficiently geo-effective in the 21st century to cancel the alleged effect of extra airborne co2 on surface temperature, how much did their positive phases contribute to the warming of the late 20th century?