Global scepticism

Phelim McAleer is about to become the most hated man in the room. As he stands in line, waiting his turn to pose a question to former US Vice-President Al Gore, the Beragh native's shroud of anonymity is about to be lifted in place of a blanket of hostility from the room of environmental journalists.

Gore, shifting uncomfortably, casually ignores Phelim's question about a UK legal challenge for his film 'An Inconvenient Truth.'

Gore's aides act quickly however, and the Beragh journalist finds his microphone cut and himself escorted out of the room.

EPA Might Try Cap-and-Trade Plan Without New Law, Cantor Says [Hopefully] - BusinessWeek

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Environmental Protection Agency might act alone to set up a U.S. carbon market if legislation that would establish a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases fails to pass Congress, CantorCO2e, the emission markets unit of Cantor Fitzgerald LP, said.

“If Congress doesn’t pass legislation, EPA is clearly on a course to develop its own approach to cap-and-trade,” Allan Bedwell, a vice president at CantorCO2e, said in a telephone interview.

Information is Beautiful: When Sea Levels Attack | News | guardian.co.uk

What does a metre sea level rise actually mean? This is how we visualised some of the data confusion

2004: Still Waiting For Greenhouse

[see the photos] The 1841 sea level benchmark (centre) on the `Isle of the Dead', Tasmania. According to Antarctic explorer, Capt. Sir James Clark Ross, it marked mean sea level in 1841. Photo taken at low tide 20 Jan 2004.
Mark is 50 cm across; tidal range is less than a metre.