Polar bear expert barred by global warmists -Christopher Booker - Telegraph

Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week's meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor's, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: "it was the position you've taken on global warming that brought opposition".

Dr Taylor was told that his views running "counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful". His signing of the Manhattan Declaration – a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents – was "inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG".

So, as the great Copenhagen bandwagon rolls on, stand by this week for reports along the lines of "scientists say polar bears are threatened with extinction by vanishing Arctic ice". But also check out Anthony Watt's Watts Up With That website for the latest news of what is actually happening in the Arctic. The average temperature at midsummer is still below zero, the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping. After last year's recovery from its September 2007 low, this year's ice melt is likely to be substantially less than for some time. The bears are doing fine. [Via Climate Change Fraud]

NC Media Watch: First it was save the plant, now it is jobs, jobs jobs.

On Friday the House of Representative passed HR 2454, a bill intended to address climate change, however the mission may have changed. The Speaker prodded Democrats to take potentially risky votes to support the party’s top priorities, urged members to remember what the legislation is about: “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” She then urged members to vote for creating more job by passing the largest tax bill in US History.

I hope that someone can explain to me how the US is going to compete in global markets by increasing the cost of all US products through excessive energy taxes. If we cannot compete, they there will be no new jobs and more companies will be moving there operations off shore to countries with lower cost energy and no costly CO2 controls. How this is going to create more jobs? Really? Please explain?