Climate Change: The Next Generation | KQED's Climate Watch

Mark Bessen, a 2009 Climate Champion from Palos Verdes High School in Rolling Hills Estates, asked Nichols how society can translate science [fraud] into political action.

"That is the secret of life," she replied.

Now in it's second year, the California Climate Champions program selects high school students from across the state to serve as educators about global warming and to "champion" projects that address climate change issues in their own communities.

Air board pays $75K for [alarmist to travel across country to promote the greatest scientific fraud in history]

Judging by the $75,000 speaking fee it paid to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has plenty of green to burn even in these lean times.

The agency, which gets its money from business permits and federal and state sources, booked the Pulitzer Prize-winning pundit to appear this past week at its big climate summit in downtown Oakland's Fox Theater, attended by 500 invited bureaucrats.
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Friedman spent about two hours with the group, including answering questions and autographing copies of his latest book, "Hot, Flat and Crowded" - in which he argues that a national strategy of "geo-Greenism" is needed to save the planet from global warming and to make the country more productive.

EDITORIAL: Not-so-Green Mayor Bloomberg

May 10--Former Vice President Al Gore took some ribbing when his global-warming rhetoric didn't square with the massive energy use at his Nashville mansion.

Now, Newsday reports that billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's townhouse lacks the rooftop windmills and solar panels that he avidly promotes. Mr. Bloomberg, the "Green Mayor," once proposed putting windmills atop New York bridges and skyscrapers -- a plan from which he backed down after howls of criticism.

He says the main environment-friendly feature of his townhouse is energy-efficient light bulbs. He did not comment on energy savings at his other five homes around the world.