Next Stop for the UN’s Movable Feast: Panama City - By Charlie Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Five thousand people for preparatory meetings? It took just 55 delegates to draft the United States Constitution.

Economy Keeps Global Warming on Back Burner for 2012 - US News and World Report

Skeptics of climate change crow as political tide continues to turn

Still shunned as fringe ideologues, or worse, by Democrats and much of the formal scientific community, skeptics of global warming were nonetheless celebratory as they gathered in Washington last week for the conservative Heartland Institute's annual climate change conference. And for good reason.
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Regardless of where candidates stand, few primary voters will make climate change a deciding factor, says Anthony Watts, a meteorologist and blogger at the prominent skeptics blog Watts Up With That? "While there may be some candidates that get pooh-poohed because they might embrace the global warming issue, it won't be a deal-breaker," he says.

How China accidentally geoengineered the climate | Grist

Between 2003 and 2007, China burned so much coal that it increased global consumption of the stuff 25 percent. That put so much sulfur into the air that it more or less literally (temporarily) blotted out the sun, masking some of the global warming that otherwise would have occurred during the first decade of the 21st century.
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Sulfur doesn't stay in the atmosphere long -- on the order of months -- but the carbon dioxide from all that coal we burned has a half life of centuries. This means we're now in for a double whammy: our industrial pollution is actually hiding some of the global warming that's already occurring, plus pumping out greenhouse gases that will keep warming worsening for decades to come. Think of it like getting punched repeatedly in the face, but taking an aspirin every time. It’ll make the bleeding worse, but at least you won’t feel it right away!