EU Climate Agreement All Smoke and Mirrors | OpenMarket.org

So if the EU has just put together an agreement to reduce emissions by 20% by 2020, why are the climate alarmist groups calling it “a dark day” and “an embarrassment”?

Well, the answer is because the actual agreement is for a 4% reduction (also explained in the last link, but Roger Pielke Jr does it better). And that may be null and void if a global agreement doesn’t emerge at Copenhagen next year, which it probably won’t.

Note also that the “rich” countries of the EU-15 have actually failed to make any dent in their emissions since the early 90s and that the former Eastern bloc countries have also not really lost much ground since 2000 either...

The Gore Effect, Cont. - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Planet Gore reader Rosa e-mails from Milan:

As you perhaps know, Mr Gore visited Italy last week, precisely Milan (Nothern Italy). He gave a speech on his usual theme: the globe is warming, there's a lot of warning signs, we shouldn't be so foolish to dismiss them, we must act now, etc. Outside the hall, it was snowing and snowing. Well, perhaps you think it's usual in a northern Italian city to have three snow spells within two weeks. In fact, it's quite rare. Rome and Naples and Palermo too — and Sicily, at more or less Florida's latitude — were under slight snow/freezing rain. On the Alps we have already reached snow record heights, unparalleled in the last decades. And we're still in Autumn ! So, if you wish to ski, please visit the hills surrounding Lake Como.

American Thinker: The Real Climate Deniers

To say we're being hoodwinked by these jamokes is an understatement. There is no planetary emergency caused by an abundance of carbon dioxide -- and even if the CO2 created by our activities was an issue, the earth has mechanisms in place to accommodate. Just like the water vapor that eventually returns to earth as precipitation, working its way into a deep ocean or subterranean aquifer, airborne carbon dioxide is absorbed by large repositories called "sinks" which include everything from the atmosphere itself to the oceans to the plants, rocks and dirt.

If anyone is in denial, it's those who still believe in global warming.
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Brian Sussman is an award-winning former television meteorologist and current radio talk show host.