U.S. carbon [swindle] rules pose oil sands hurdles - The Globe and Mail

Canada's oil sands producers face the prospect of a patchwork of costly climate regulations in their key U.S. markets as American states step up their efforts to adopt California-style low-carbon fuel standards.

U.S. carbon [swindle] market growth seen without climate [hoax] bill | Reuters

DALLAS (Reuters) - Voluntary carbon markets in the United States will grow especially at the regional level even if a stalled federal climate bill fails to impose "cap and trade" on American industry, the chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) said.

"I think we will continue to see interest in voluntary carbon markets ... And I would expect that without a federal law you will continue to see growth in regional initiatives in the United States," Richard Sandor, the exchange's founder, told Reuters in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
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Political uncertainty has contributed to low carbon prices in the United States. The Carbon Financial Instrument contracts on the Chicago exchange have fallen to about 15 cents per tonne from about $2 early last year. In Europe, carbon allowances are worth about $18.50 a tonne.

But Sandor, an innovative and key figure in the history of the global derivatives industry, said he still saw "momentum" for cap and trade in the United States.

Guest opinion: Skeptics, show us your e-mails - Boulder Daily Camera

I call upon the climate change skeptics ---- political, scientific and media ----to share with the world a block of their unbroken, years-long chain of e-mails about climate change. I am asking them to do this on a voluntary basis in order to show us that they are super human and do not share the human frailty of "loose lips" that the rest of humankind is subject to.

2009 was one of Boulder's snowiest years - Boulder Daily Camera

As for the year 2009, it was very snowy, quite wet and cool. The 125.5 inches of snow ranks it the second-snowiest year on record at least since 1990, when the way the snow totals were measured changed. (The year 1997 had 158.7 inches).

The 22.19 inches of moisture made 2009 the 24th wettest, and the annual temperature of 50.8 degrees marked the second year in a row under 51 degrees. The average annual temperature is 52.0 degrees.

It's a cold, snowy winter in Boulder -- and expect a frigid Thursday - Boulder Daily Camera

This winter continues to be snowier than usual, as well. The 3 inches of snow that had fallen by Wednesday evening brought the snow total for this season to more than 70 inches in Boulder, roughly twice the average for early January, Kelsch said.

The BEAST 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains | The Beast

Some of the bastards responsible for subverting public understanding of climate change
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Michael Roddy graduated with honors from Berkeley, and has written numerous magazine articles and Congressional testimonies on environmental and construction issues. He currently owns and operates a small hotel energy management company, with offices in Seattle, Napa, and Yucca Valley, California. Mike can be reached at mike.greenframe@gmail.com.

The Heretics: Dr. Craig Idso – by Rich Trzupek | FrontPage Magazine

Idso, Singer and their many prominent contributors in the scientific community are gearing up to begin work on their second report, provisionally known as NIPCC-2. Initially, NIPCC-2 will be a living document, with its own website, updated periodically as chapters are developed and data examined. The idea, Idso explained, is to make the report production process entirely transparent so that anyone, no matter their predispositions with regard to global warming, can see, be part of and comment on the process. Given what the world has learned about the way that some of the IPCC data has been developed, such transparency is a breath of fresh air.

The Heretics: Steve Milloy – by Rich Trzupek | FrontPage Magazine

There was a time, Milloy recalls, when he was almost a voice in the wilderness, after he first started to speak out on the issue in 1996. “We’ve been slogging away at this all through the decade,” he said. “The first part of the decade was really tough. Today, there are lots of people questioning the science behind global warming, but back in 2000 it was very lonely out there.”