[Former TV weatherman Paul Douglas still suckered by the greatest scientific fraud in history]

What about Minnesota's cool spring and early June frost up north? It was a classic example of confusion caused over "weather," not "climate," they agreed, pointing out the obvious: You can't just take a snapshot of any one location over a span of days or even weeks and reach global conclusions. The arctic regions continue to warm over time, along with the world's oceans, which are becoming increasingly acidic, threatening a wide range of aquatic life. The melting of Greenland's ice pack has accelerated in recent years, vast chunks of Antarctic ice have broken off into the sea, and the vast majority of the world's glaciers continue to shrink at an alarming rate.

Cap and trade is wrong solution - The Denver Post

The U.S. needs to cut its greenhouse emissions, but legislation expected to be taken up today isn't the way to go about it.

Great Lakes Water Levels, Global Warming, Cap-and-Trade [Mackinac Center]

If lower-than-average water levels in the Great Lakes is caused by global warming, then increasing water levels must be caused by global cooling, right? Of course the global cooling connection to Great Lakes water levels is just as spurious as the global warming claims. Maybe it is time to take a pause and understand that as much as we might like to, man does not control nature. At the very least we should not undertake expensive and job-killing policy initiatives such as cap-and-trade of CO2 because of predictions regarding the Great Lakes, which are proving to be wrong.

FutureGen just a giant boondoggle | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

The Department of Energy has announced it will resurrect a costly federal earmark project scuttled by the Bush administration when the price tag nearly doubled. FutureGen, a 275-kilowatt coal pilot plant designed to demonstrate that carbon dioxide emissions can be captured and injected deep in the earth where it is "sequestered," will receive more than a $1 billion of taxpayers' "stimulus" money.

The move had the fascinating effect of simultaneously being blasted by conservative Republicans and environmentalists. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., called the funding the "most expensive earmark in history … one of the most egregious examples of stimulus dollars being handed out on the basis of politics rather than merit or need." The envirodudes believe all coal is dirty, should never be used despite hundreds of years of reserves in the U.S., and that the administration pushed the project because it will be sited in Obama's home state of Illinois.