United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: Still trying to sell the idea that CO2 causes bad weather

[15-minute video] April 9, 2013 - In his weekly "Time to Wake Up" climate change speech, Senator Whitehouse discusses how climate change is affecting fishermen, sportsmen, and others concerned with wildlife.

Climate sue & settle? 12 states and cities, 3 enviro groups to sue EPA over delayed coal plant emission rules | JunkScience.com

A dozen states and cities and three major environmental groups have notified the Environmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue the regulator unless it issues final rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

Quadrant Online - The 'settled science' and its leaning tower

It would be unsettling if scientists started describing the global warming theory as “settled” or of giving that impression to impressionable commentators. That is a layman’s term properly reserved for describing things like the coincident landing of two cannon balls of different weight dropped from the same height at the same place at the same time.

What I want to know is that climate scientists are, figuratively speaking, scaling the heights of the Tower of Pisa cannon balls in hand. Nothing that I read or hear gives me confidence that this is happening with any conviction. Is this simply a communications problem? Has every country got a Tim Flannery front-man inadvertently queering the pitch and putting science in a bad light? Or, is there really something rotten in the state of climate science?

NCDC Fraud Smoking Gun | Real Science

NCDC shows that year-to-date temperatures in the US are above average.
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The vast majority of the country was below average for January-March, much of it far below average. This has been a cold year in the US, and NCDC is committing blatant fraud by claiming that it has been warmer than normal.

European Union Kneecaps Carbon Cap and Trade System | TIME.com

carbon markets may be finished. If carbon trading can’t make it in Europe, it can’t make it anywhere.

Economic Struggles Derail EU Carbon Policy | Planet3.0

[Europe's] embrace of the climate issue cast a halo over the European project as a benign and collaborative force for good in the world. “It was an integral part of the brand,” said Tom Brookes, director of the European Climate Foundation.

These days, it is accepted – even by climate warriors like Mr Brookes – that global warming has been consigned to a seat in the waiting room while the EU tends to a chronic economic crisis that has threatened the single currency and increased unemployment.  [This excerpt is from the Financial Times]