[Will these people willingly fork over large sums for alleged government carbon dioxide control?] Survey Says: Americans Would Choose iPod Over Planet

A survey out this morning from the advertising firm Shelton Group suggests that very few Americans would be willing to give up the comforts of modern life even if they knew such comforts hurt the planet. Of the survey respondents, only 38 percent said they would give up their iPod; 21 percent would give up their cell phone; 7 percent would do without a computer and just 6 percent would go without a car. Yet 60 percent of the people surveyed gave lip service to being interested in “greener products.”

If we were serious about global warming...

I have seen estimates (but no figures) that up to $50 billion has been spent worldwide on the study of global warming. Whatever the real number, it does not seem that we have received a lot for our money.

[We're saved! Another climate fraud meeting this week]

JIUTEPEC, Mexico (AFP) — Environment ministers from the world's largest polluters, including the United States and China, began a two-day meeting in Mexico Monday amid a US push to speed up work towards a key United Nations climate accord.

The so-called Major Economies Forum (MEF) aims to help form a new agreement to curb greenhouse gases to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012.

The group's third meeting in as many months comes as worldwide climate negotiations are stalling ahead of a major Copenhagen summit in December aimed at producing the new UN accord.