Barrasso, 'secret person' to join Inhofe on Copenhagen trip - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

A second senator has signed onto Sen. Jim Inhofe's (R-Okla.) upcoming trip in December to an international climate change summit.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) will join Inhofe during the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009 in Denmark in early December, the Oklahoma conservative said Thursday.

Inhofe said that the Wyoming freshman and a third "secret person" would attent the summit during an appearance on the conservative "Morning in America" show hosted by Bill Bennett.
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"We are clearly winning, I believe that," the senator asserted of growing skepticism for climate change science.

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Sunspot update: Still behind activity of a year ago

Sunspot activity has shown an increase since the long quiet spell of July-September 2009 (51 days in a row with a blank solar surface), but it’s certainly nothing to crow about just yet.

A pronounced sunspot group helped push the solar 10.7cm radio flux to its highest level in 18 months in late September; since then, a 19-day blank streak resumed the march of sunspot-less days which now ranks 6th for any year since 1900.