Obama Administration Courts Midwesterners on Energy, Climate [Fraud] - Washington Wire - WSJ

A high-level White House meeting today dealt with the concerns of a group that will be crucial to winning support for energy and climate legislation: Midwesterners.

No nudes day as event is cancelled - Lancashire Evening Post

Plans for a nude camping festival in Wyre have been scrapped – because punters were worried about getting chilly.

Deepak Lal: Spiking the road to Copenhagen

Three cheers for Jairam Ramesh! India at last has an environment minister who is willing and able to denounce the hypocrisy and immorality of the West in twisting the arms of India and China to curb their carbon emissions. He is right to make it clear that India has no intention of signing the new ‘climate change’ treaty in Copenhagen in December, which would put curbs on the carbon emissions of the Third World. If they do not comply they are being threatened by the draft bill going through the US Congress to levy carbon tariffs on their exports.

U.S. needs climate [scam] law before Copenhagen: officials | Reuters

A U.S. Agriculture Department study shows farmers could boost their net income by $10 billion to $20 billion in the long term earning money from offsets -- contracts to plant trees or change the way they till land to lock more carbon in soils, Vilsack said.

Locke pointed out that many developing countries such as China are resistant to fighting global warming, even though they are large emitters of greenhouse gases.

"The United States needs to set a very firm and clear example if we are to be successful in getting the other countries to be equally aggressive in addressing climate change," Locke said.