Plan to fight climate change will mean more coal burning 

WASHINGTON - Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming, but President Obama's plan to fight climate change would actually result in the nation burning more coal a decade from now than it does today.

And, environmental groups say the plan could also set off a boom in the construction of new coal plants by robbing them of a legal mechanism they have used to slow down or stop such construction in the past.

Al Ritter: Obama using scare tactic to pass cap and trade

The biggest problem with what the administration wants to push down our throats is that cap and trade does nothing on its own to reduce emissions! It only taxes the ones being produced, and if Obama doesn’t think that those costs won’t just be passed onto the end user, he is sadly mistaken. This is merely an avenue for the government to make more money on taxes plain and simple, and they are attempting it through lies and partial truths with no scientific backup other then “computer modeling” and as we all know, the weather forecast is rarely correct 7 days in advance, why should we believe a prediction years in advance? [Via Skeptic's Corner]

Phil Jones: the Secret Agent in Hawaii « Climate Audit

As CA readers know, Phil Jones keeps his CRU data secret. Embarrassingly, the UK Met Office relies on this secret data and says that it is unable to provide this supporting data for the most relied upon temperature data set in the world. Their statements in response to FOI requests as to what they actually hold seem contradictory, but most recently they state that they do not hold original data, but only the "value added version" provided to them by Phil Jones. Whether they are entitled to keep the "value added version" secret is something that their FOI officer is presently considering.