Firms delay CO2 cap technology

Companies in the UAE are delaying their investments into technologies that help cap carbon dioxide emissions by three years, insiders of the carbon trade industry told Emirates Business.

Blizzards distort economy numbers | newsleader.com | The News Leader

Record amounts of snow blanketed cities including Washington and Philadelphia, prompting the federal government to shut down for four days, businesses to close temporarily and Americans to stay at home. Another system caused record snowfall in Texas before moving into Mississippi and North Carolina.
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Carl Riccadonna, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, said that before the blizzards he was anticipating the February employment report to show an increase of around 85,000 jobs. Now, Riccadonna forecasts a loss of about 75,000.

Europe worried about standstill on US climate bill | EurActiv

Christian Egenhofer, head of the energy and climate programme at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), warned that the EU risks falling behind on new technologies and innovation if it bases its climate strategy on the assumption that the US will help seal a binding international deal in Mexico at the end of the year.
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The analyst argued that it is now almost certain that there won't be a binding deal in Mexico. He added that the Copenhagen Accord had confirmed that commitments by all countries are based on domestic politics.

"The big driver at the moment cannot be international, because it's clear that the international deal is on hold until at least two years," Egenhofer said.

Editorial - Climate Change - NYTimes.com

...His resignation comes at a fragile moment in the campaign to combat climate change. The Senate is stalemated over a climate change bill. The disclosure of apparently trivial errors in the U.N.’s 2007 climate report has given Senate critics fresh ammunition.

Political ambitions at play as premiers, governors meet - The Globe and Mail

Mr. Charest and Mr. Prentice are considered by many to be potential successors to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Mr. Prentice admittedly has a tougher job reconciling regional interests in climate-change policy. But Mr. Charest has not let the recent credibility gaps of some scientists shake his conviction that climate policy is, as one of his advisers put it, a “generational issue” that no politician can afford to short-change.

Not a premier. Not a governor. And certainly not aspiring national leaders such as Mr. Pawlenty and, just maybe, Mr. Charest.

IPCC biofuel blending – science ignored, or made up? | CLIMATEGATE

The list of unsupported and unscientific claims in the IPCC Climate Change Report 2007 grows ever longer.

Warmer citing polls, not science | CLIMATEGATE

...He then hopes that our United States Congress should be convinced by polls taken in 22 other countries to pass climate change legislation. No science, no facts, a mere poll is supposed to convince them and us.

I really don’t know whether I should laugh or cry at this man. I think perhaps he had a clue that citing polls was not going to really convince anybody with half a brain that doom is imminent, and decided to bolster his case with good old scare tactics via the use of factoids.

Answer to a “global warming” fanatic | Christopher Monckton - The SPPI Blog