Al Gore's climate [swindle] group shrinking - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

One of Al Gore's campaigns to save the planet has scaled back its field operations since climate legislation failed earlier this year in Congress.

The Alliance for Climate Protection was operating in about 25 states at its peak, including Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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But the group now has field offices in just seven states.
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Gore in 2008 launched a $300 million advertising and lobbying campaign through the Alliance to help pass climate legislation on Capitol Hill, telling CBS' 60 Minutes at the time it was a “blitz as sweeping and expensive as a big corporation's rollout of a new product.”

The group has not disclosed how much of that money it ultimately spent.

Is Time ‘Running Out’ for the Climate? Panel [of believers] Debates at Stony Brook

Carl Safina, Elaine Karmarck, and an assembly of prominent Stony Brook professors joined together Tuesday in order to discuss an article by Peter Goldmark and climate change.
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Lee Koppelman, a Stony Brook professor who is an expert in local level policy, started off by talking about the dangers of scientists becoming activists. According to Koppelman, the reason scientists are trustworthy is that they base their conclusions off their data. But when scientists get involved in politics, they become just about as believable as, well, politicians.

He focused on the e-mails that proved some scientists fabricated models to make the threat of climate change seem more drastic and immediate. Scandals like these make other scientists seem less credible.

Cancun Climate Summit Ridiculed in World Press

...around the world, more and more media are risking the ire of bureaucrats and officials to expose the fraudulent warmist hypotheses.

The New American magazine predicted the slow death of the global-warming crusade in an article earlier this year as politicians who supported the hysteria began dropping like flies and the warmists were still licking their wounds from Copenhagen and a devastating series of scandals. But with so much invested in the scam, it will definitely not go down quietly or without a fight. For now, the embattled parade is scheduled to limp on in Durban, South Africa, next year.

Western Climate Initiative moves forward, smaller than imagined — High Country News

The toxic politics of cap-and-trade
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In New Mexico, time nearly ran out. The same day the board OK'd the rules, Republican Susana Martinez, who is skeptical about man-made global warming and opposes cap and trade, was elected governor. The new board she picks "will be hostile -- almost certainly -- to climate regulation," says Bruce Frederick, a lawyer with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center.
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"Somewhere along the line, 'cap and trade' as a phrase became about as popular as bank bailouts," says Eric de Place, a senior researcher at the Seattle-based Sightline Institute.