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  • GOP's Graham steps out on a limb on climate change ("I don't think it will cost me my job")

    11/07/2009 3:34:26 PM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 44 replies · 1,059+ views
    McClatchy / The Miami Herald ^ | 2009-11-07 | James S. Rosen
    WASHINGTON — When it comes to combating global warming, Sen. Lindsey Graham is right where he loves to be — ahead of the curve, in the mix on a major issue, at the table for high-level, bipartisan talks behind closed doors. Graham, a South Carolina Republican, is working with Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to craft a climate change bill. They face the dual challenge of overcoming widespread GOP opposition and withstanding relentless attacks by Big Oil and allied energy interests. "Our goal is to create a vision that not only will...
  • From Berlin to Copenhagen

    11/06/2009 2:03:26 PM PST · by neverdem · 3 replies · 115+ views
    National Post ^ | November 05, 2009 | Peter Foster
    Gorbachev and his ilk call for ‘new thinking,’ but really mean new ways to dictate how people should live This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the U.S. Congress that inaction on climate change amounted to a new “Berlin Wall” of “short- sighted self-interest.” Ms. Merkel’s claim was upside down. There is indeed a new threat to freedom in the offing, but it is the Green Wall that she is recommending. It will span the globe, and there will be no escape. What collapsed twenty years ago was Communism. What didn’t collapse was anti-capitalism, which remains the principle driver of...
  • The melting snows of Kilimanjaro

    11/06/2009 12:38:06 AM PST · by neverdem · 16 replies · 578+ views
    Nature News ^ | 2 November 2009 | Brian Vastag
    Glaciers crowning Africa's tallest mountain could disappear within decades. Remnant of the Eastern Ice Field as seen 2000. This particular chunk of ice has now disappeared.Lonnie G. Thompson The snows of Kilimanjaro are rapidly disappearing and will be gone by 2033, predicts the most detailed analysis yet of the iconic glaciers gracing Africa's highest peak.In addition to shrinking in area, Kilimanjaro's glaciers are thinning from the top down, says Ohio State University's Lonnie Thompson, lead author of the new study. "They're being decapitated," he says. "In fact, they're probably not really glaciers anymore. They're remnants of another climate."In 2000, Thompson...
  • Kerry and Graham whip up compromise on global warming [Graham endorses carbon taxes] [hurl]

    11/04/2009 5:58:12 PM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 36 replies · 1,072+ views
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 2009-11-05 | Susan Ferrechio
    Even as a Senate global-warming bill remained in limbo with Democrats refusing to delay a committee vote until an economic analysis was completed, hopes rose for a potential bipartisan compromise. The Senate, meanwhile, appears to be moving away from the bill, authored by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., which would require a 20 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 and would have the government sell the right to emit carbon dioxide. Even as Boxer conducted an unusual one-sided hearing on her bill in the Environment and Public Works Committee, Kerry, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and...
  • Gore Urges Scientist to Change Science to Suit His Alarmist Agenda

    11/04/2009 11:19:24 AM PST · by Bobkk47 · 7 replies · 396+ views
    ClimateChangeFraud.com ^ | 11/4/2009 | Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAle
    IMAGINE a scientist came up with a way of solving "Global Warming" without ending the use of fossil fuels and other measures which threaten to destroy the US economy. One would think that Al Gore and his research team would be delighted and would be pushing the scientist's findings to a wider audience. But buried in a recent Newsweek story is an example of how Gore's team tried to change some Inconvenient Science to suit their agenda. According to Timothy LaSalle, who Gore consulted for solutions to Global Warming, we could solve the "problem" of CO2 emissions by clever use...
  • Gore Asks Us To Commit Economic Suicide

    11/04/2009 5:21:09 AM PST · by raptor22 · 20 replies · 456+ views
    Real Clear Markets ^ | November 4, 2009 | IBD staff
    Junk Science: The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list. He asks us to commit economic suicide while he rakes in millions from his green investments. 'Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," Al Gore's sequel to his 2006 tome "An Inconvenient Truth," came out Tuesday. Printed on recycled paper using low-VOC (volatile organic compound) ink, it will undoubtedly be a best-seller and on the desk of every attendee at next month's climate change conference in Copenhagen. In a press release announcing the book, the Oscar-...
  • Gore's Profits Of Doom

    11/03/2009 5:59:25 PM PST · by Kaslin · 8 replies · 405+ views
    Investors.com ^ | November 3, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Junk Science: The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list. He asks us to commit economic suicide while he rakes in millions from his green investments. 'Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," Al Gore's sequel to his 2006 tome "An Inconvenient Truth," came out Tuesday. Printed on recycled paper using low-VOC (volatile organic compound) ink, it will undoubtedly be a best-seller and on the desk of every attendee at next month's climate change conference in Copenhagen. In a press release announcing the book, the Oscar-...
  • Junk Science Returns to the White House

    11/03/2009 12:00:15 PM PST · by neverdem · 31 replies · 736+ views
    realclearmarkets.com ^ | November 2, 2009 | Bill Frezza
    Regardless of your tribal affiliations, were you cautiously optimistic when our new president promised to "restore science to its rightful place" in the formulation of public policy? Were you embarrassed by the prior occupant's politicization of issues that should have been decided on a more scientific basis? Did you assume that Barack Obama would surround himself with apolitical science advisors unencumbered by embarrassing anti-science baggage and free of culture-war axes to grind? To paraphrase a once famous mayor of New York - So how's he doing so far? You're probably aware that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine supply has fallen...
  • Canadian concern over climate change plummeting

    11/02/2009 6:52:00 PM PST · by neverdem · 27 replies · 548+ views
    National Post ^ | November 02, 2009 | Lawrence Solomon
    According to a new Climate Confidence Monitor survey released today, support for action on climate change is plummeting in Canada. Just 26% of Canadians consider global warming among their chief concerns, down from 34% in 2008. Concern in the U.S. is even lower - just 18% , down from 26% in 2008. The UK's level of concern is the lowest of all, a mere 15%, down from 26% in 2008. Worldwide, the drop in concern over climate change has also dropped by 8 percentage points, from 42% to 34%...
  • Laughing Gas Knocks Out CO2

    11/02/2009 4:07:00 PM PST · by neverdem · 25 replies · 891+ views
    ClimateRealists.com via rightsidenews.com ^ | 02 November 2009 | Doug L. Hoffman
    In the face of ever mounting evidence that CO2 is incapable of causing the level of global devastation prophesied by climate change catastrophists a new villain is being sought. The leading candidate is nitrous oxide (N2O), better known as laughing gas. A report in Science claims that N2O emissions are currently the single most important cause of ozone depletion and are expected to remain so throughout the 21st century. The IPCC rates N2O as 310 times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2 on a 100 year time scale. Is this a greenhouse gas bait and switch, or are the...
  • Multiyear Arctic ice is effectively gone: expert

    10/31/2009 8:16:51 PM PDT · by secretagent · 25 replies · 1,067+ views
    NewsDaily ^ | 2009/10/29 | David Ljunggren
    The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert said on Thursday. Vast sheets of impenetrable multiyear ice, which can reach up to 80 meters (260 feet) thick, have for centuries blocked the path of ships seeking a quick short cut through the fabled Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They also ruled out the idea of sailing across the top of the world. But David Barber, Canada's Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, said...
  • The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up

    10/30/2009 11:56:22 AM PDT · by Fractal Trader · 28 replies · 1,158+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 30 October 2009 | JEFFREY BALL
    Two years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" caused by man. Then came a development unforeseen by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC: Data suggested that Earth's temperature was beginning to drop. Global climate models did not account for a drop in global temperatures since 2006, but climate scientists believe the lower temperatures are temporary. That has reignited debate over what has become scientific consensus: that climate change is due not to nature, but to humans burning fossil fuels. Scientists who...
  • Aerosols make methane more potent - Air pollution linked more closely to climate concerns.

    10/30/2009 6:12:16 PM PDT · by neverdem · 22 replies · 454+ views
    Nature News ^ | 29 October 2009 | Katharine Sanderson
    Aerosols' complicated influence on our climate just got more threatening: they could make methane a more potent greenhouse gas than previously realized, say climate modellers.Drew Shindell, at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, and colleagues ran a range of computerized models to show that methane's global warming potential is greater when combined with aerosols — atmospheric particles such as dust, sea salt, sulphates and black carbon. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol assume methane to be, tonne-for-tonne, 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the planet. But the...
  • The-real-climate-change-catastrophe

    10/29/2009 7:48:24 AM PDT · by RayTheSpook · 16 replies · 448+ views
    telegraph.co.uk ^ | 25 Oct 2009 | Christopher Booker
    "The Climate Change Bill laid down that, by 2050, the British people must cut their emissions of carbon dioxide by well over 80 per cent. Short of some unimaginable technological revolution, such a target could not possibly be achieved without shutting down almost the whole of our industrialised economy, changing our way of life out of recognition."
  • Offset your carbon emissions for $6.66 this Halloween

    10/27/2009 1:34:12 PM PDT · by BeAllYouCanBe · 24 replies · 592+ views
    The Bay City Times ^ | October 27, 2009 | Jeff Kart
    If global warming scares you, think about spending $6.66 to offset your carbon emissions this Halloween. The Delta Institute, which sells carbon offset credits to corporations on the Chicago Climate Exchange, is opening up its books to the public. For $6.66, you can offset 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. The number 666 is usually associated with evil, but the money will do some good in this case. “When someone plants trees or grasses, they absorb CO2 and essentially negate CO2 emissions somewhere else,” explains Todd Parker, an associate with the Institute in Lansing. The offsets are generated primarily...
  • Statisticians: "Global Cooling" a Myth (AP barf)

    10/27/2009 9:45:41 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 26 replies · 787+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Oct. 25, 2009
    (AP) Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book. Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press. The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It's been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather's normal ups and downs?
  • Chill settles over 'global warming':Public concern over supposed "climate change" continues to erode

    10/27/2009 5:20:28 AM PDT · by IbJensen · 16 replies · 561+ views
    One News Now ^ | 10/26/2009 | Pete Chagnon
    According to the latest Pew Research Poll, only 35 percent see global warming as a very serious problem, down from 44 percent last year. Fifty-seven percent believe there is solid evidence that man is driving climate change, down from 71 percent in 2008. As the public concern over climate change continues to erode, Lord Christopher Monckton -- the former advisor for science policy to Lady Margaret Thatcher -- says the alleged science behind manmade climate change is eroding as well. Christopher Monckton"First of all, it's now been demonstrated by measurement that CO2 has only one-sixth of the warming effect on...
  • Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet

    10/27/2009 5:48:08 AM PDT · by Overtaxed Patriot · 40 replies · 718+ views
    Times Online ^ | Robin Pagnamenta
    People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming. In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.” Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas. Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on...
  • 'Proof' humans cause global warming

    10/26/2009 1:08:59 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 59 replies · 1,597+ views
    Courier Mail ^ | 10/20/09 | From correspondents in Washington
    SEDIMENT cores from a small Arctic lake in Canada stretching back 200,000 years show unprecedented gains in global warming since 1950, indicating human activity is the likely cause. "The past few decades have been unique in the past 200,000 years in terms of the changes we see in the biology and chemistry recorded in the cores,'' University of Colorado glaciologist Yarrow Axford said. "We see clear evidence for warming in one of the most remote places on Earth at a time when the Arctic should be cooling because of natural processes." Mr Axford is the chief author of the study...
  • China-India Accord to Scuttle UN Climate Treaty

    10/26/2009 6:13:58 AM PDT · by PreciousLiberty · 17 replies · 751+ views
    American Thinker ^ | 10/23/2009 | William R. Hawkins
    On October 22, an accord was signed by Xie Zhenhua, China's vice minister at the National Development and Reform Commission, and Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, in New Delhi. The memorandum provides an alternative framework to counter pressure from America and Europe to adopt mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions in a new UN treaty. The two Asian powers will collaborate on the development of renewable power projects and improved energy efficiency programs, while rejecting any outside mandates that would slow economic growth. The United Nations has been holding forums around the world to build support for a new climate...
  • We Can Do It [in NYT op-ed, UN praises maverick Lindsey Graham for compromising] [BARF!!!]

    10/25/2009 10:27:10 AM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 36 replies · 1,197+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 2009-10-25 | Ban Ki-Moon
    (snip) U.S. leadership is crucial. That is why I am encouraged by the spirit of compromise shown in the bipartisan initiative announced last week by John Kerry and Lindsey Graham. Here was a pair of U.S. senators — one Republican, the other Democratic — coming together to bridge their parties’ differences to address climate change in a spirit of genuine give-and-take. We cannot afford another period where the United States stands on the sidelines. An engaged United States can lead the world to seal a deal to combat climate change in Copenhagen. An indecisive or insufficiently engaged United States will...
  • International day of demonstrations on climate change (Envirowacko's are saving the world today)

    10/24/2009 12:55:31 PM PDT · by Zakeet · 6 replies · 280+ views
    CNN ^ | October 24, 2009
    From seabeds to mountaintops, people around the world were staging a day of demonstrations Saturday to call for urgent action on climate change. The events were being coordinated by a group called 350.org, whose name refers to the parts per million of carbon dioxide it considers the safe upper limit for our atmosphere. The group said it wants to "inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis" ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. Divers at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the ocean off the Maldives...
  • Obama Will Attend Opening of New Solar Panel Plant That Will Power 3k Homes (Cost: $50k Per Home)

    10/24/2009 8:24:54 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 72 replies · 1,616+ views
    gateway pundit ^ | October 23, 2009 | Jim Hoft
    The Florida solar panel plant cost $150 million to build. A field of orange trees makes more sense. The state of Florida is completing the final touches on a solar panel plant that cost $150 million to build and will only power 3,000 homes. Barack Obama will visit this solar-paneled cash dump next week. The AP reported: The Desoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center will power a small fraction of Florida Power & Light’s 4-million plus customer base; nevertheless, at 25 megawatts, it will generate nearly twice as much energy as the second-largest photovoltaic facility in the U.S. The White...
  • Carbon Pawprints (Save The Earth -Eat Your Pet)

    10/23/2009 4:42:51 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 48 replies · 1,367+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | Ocyober 23, 2009 | IBD Editorial Staff
    Environmentalism: As polls show belief in global warming is dropping, a new study suggests that dogs and cats, like people, are a plague upon the earth. They say people should have edible pets. Here, kitty, kitty. A new Pew Research Center study conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 says the number of Americans who think there's solid evidence the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades has plummeted from 71% in April 2008 to 57% today. Over the same period, there's been a comparable decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising...
  • Arctic Sea Ice shows a recovery but NASA is not telling you

    10/23/2009 3:53:03 PM PDT · by neverdem · 20 replies · 1,302+ views
    Examiner ^ | October 23, 2009 | Tony Pann
    The latest report of arctic sea ice was released, since the September minimum has passed and ice is now reforming as winter approaches. The National Snow and Ice Data Center report states that this was the third lowest amount of sea ice on record, but I contend that is missing the point. In this era of dire claims of climate marred by the controversy of global cooling, public dissent, and early season snow, a NASA follow up report appears to ignore the good news: The arctic sea ice is actually expanding! --snip-- The first lines of a press release from...
  • Feds set aside 'critical habitat' for polar bear

    10/22/2009 1:01:29 PM PDT · by Libertarianize the GOP · 39 replies · 1,105+ views
    Tacoma News Tribune ^ | 10/22/09 | MATTHEW DALY
    The Obama administration is setting aside 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to future offshore drilling for oil and gas. Federal law prohibits agencies from taking actions that may adversely modify critical habitat and interfere with polar bear recovery. Assistant Interior Secretary Tom Strickland called the habitat designation a step in the right direction to help polar bears stave off extinction, recognizing that the greatest threat to the bear is the melting of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change. The Bush administration last year...
  • (RINO) Graham Joins Kerry On Cap-And-Trade

    10/19/2009 6:59:45 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 47 replies · 1,539+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | October 19, 2009 | IBD editorial staff
    Politics: Move over, John McCain and Olympia Snowe. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is fast becoming the Democrats' favorite Republican as he partners with John Kerry to push cap-and-trade through the Senate. Earlier this year, eight Republican congressmen made it possible for Waxman-Markey, the 1,400-page job- and economy-killing cap-and-trade legislation, to barely pass the House of Representatives. At the time it seemed dead on arrival in the Senate if it was brought up there this year. Once again, as with their medical plan, the Democrats seek to better the odds by putting a GOP hood ornament on a Democratic clunker....
  • CO2 driven global warming is not supported by the data

    10/18/2009 3:24:28 PM PDT · by neverdem · 26 replies · 1,126+ views
    American Thinker ^ | October 18, 2009 | Girma J Orssengo
    CO2 -- many seek to regulate it, legislate it, tax it, capture it, sequester it, cap it, trade it or otherwise control it.  And they who do would have us risk nothing less than worldwide economic destruction based on the theory that not doing so will inevitably lead to catastrophic global warming.  But one need only study the past two centuries of climate history to conclude that CO2 simply does not drive global warming. Let us start from the data. The plot of the mean global temperature anomaly in deg C for the data from the Hadley Centre from year...
  • A Bit of Bipartisanship [NYT editorial board lavishes praise upon RINO traitor Graham] [BARF!]

    10/17/2009 10:20:44 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 21 replies · 902+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 2009-10-18 | Unsigned Editorial
    Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who has long resisted climate change legislation, has joined the ranks of those pushing for a bipartisan agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. We welcome his change of heart. Mr. Graham has sensibly decided that it helps neither the planet, the country nor his party to block efforts to solve the problem of global warming. . . . . . Mr. Graham’s conversion could encourage Senator John McCain and Maine’s Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — all past supporters of climate change legislation — to come forward again, and it could attract fence-sitters...
  • Carbon: Passive rider on the Earth/Space Machine

    10/17/2009 2:09:32 AM PDT · by neverdem · 8 replies · 606+ views
    American Thinker ^ | October 17, 2009 | James R. Fencil
    Earth operates a network of molten upwellings from deep seams in the planet's crust which act to shove tectonic plates across the seafloors where these plates bump into continental land outcroppings. There the spreading plates subduct beneath the continental rims and simultaneously thrust mountains upward from sea level. Such crustal movements continue to alter our global topography today. Atmospheric composition is largely unaffected by these tectonic movements except during volcanic eruptions which emit gasses that are subsequently diffused about the globe by wind action. Space operates a system of radiant inputs to the earth: both continuous cosmic rays from deep...
  • Obama isn't helping. At least the world argued with Bush (A moonbat goes mad.)

    10/16/2009 7:14:12 PM PDT · by neverdem · 8 replies · 931+ views
    The Guardian ^ | 16 October 2009 | Naomi Klein
    For all the global love-in, the new president has led rich nations to neglect principled action and row back from climate deals Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize, the one that rang truest came from Nicolas Sarkozy. "It sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples." In other words, this was Europe's way of saying to America, "We love you again", like those weird renewal-of-vows ceremonies couples have after a rough patch. Now Europe and the US are officially reunited, it seems appropriate to consider whether this is necessarily a...
  • Lester Brown says ‘we can’t afford to let the planet get much hotter’ (barf)

    10/15/2009 7:09:40 AM PDT · by listenhillary · 36 replies · 1,097+ views
    newjerseynewsroom ^ | 10/12/09 | STEPHEN LEAHY
    UXBRIDGE, CANADA — Lester Brown says his views sometimes appear extreme - because the mainstream media largely doesn't understand the urgency and challenges in avoiding catastrophic climate change. The founder and president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, he is also considered by many to be one of the world's most influential thinkers. "It looks like I'm a radical because the mainstream media aren't reflecting the reality of our situation," Brown says. A farmer from the eastern U.S. state of New Jersey, Brown entered the U.S. Civil Service in the 1960s, becoming an expert on foreign agricultural policy before leaving...
  • Three Decades Of Global Cooling

    10/13/2009 7:20:50 AM PDT · by raptor22 · 18 replies · 1,023+ views
    Real Clear Markets ^ | October 13, 2009 | IBD Staff
    Climate Change: As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming? Al Gore wasn't there to throw out the first snowball, er, baseball, so he might not have noticed that Saturday's playoff game between the Colorado Rockies and the Philadelphia Phillies was snowed out - in early October. The field should have been snow-free just as the North Pole was to be ice-free this year. It seems that ice at both poles hasn't been paying attention to...
  • Graham steps from McCain’s shadow right into his shoes [giddy Democrats laud "the new McCain"]

    10/16/2009 5:10:55 AM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 46 replies · 1,640+ views
    The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2009-10-16 | Alexander Bolton
    Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime friend and ally of Sen. John McCain, is now going a step further, Democrats say, and actually becoming the new McCain. Senior members of the majority party say the South Carolina Republican has displaced his Arizona mentor as the dealmaker on two big agenda items of the Obama administration: climate change and immigration. As McCain, on the heels of his presidential election defeat, has distanced himself from Democrats, Graham has moved in to fill the vacuum.
  • Lindsay Graham's costly collegiality [a RINO snatches defeat from the jaws of victory...again]

    10/14/2009 10:26:08 AM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 13 replies · 676+ views
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 2009-10-14 | Unsigned Editorial
    Periodically, a Republican senator is seized with desire to be the front man for the Democrats' latest regulatory monstrosity in Washington. Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina is now in the throes of this pathological urge, which usually appears just when defeat seems imminent for a big-government scheme like the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy bill. Democrats and their liberal buddies in the mainstream media need only whisper the magic word "bipartisanship" and soon enough along comes a gullible GOPer to take the bait. Graham made clear in a Sunday New York Times op-ed written with Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, that he...
  • Lindsay Graham tagged as a 'traitor' for backing climate change legislation [wants to help Obama]

    10/14/2009 10:23:15 AM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 17 replies · 1,188+ views
    Those angry town hall meetings are back. Last night, at a forum at Furman University, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was pilloried by protesters for his decision to back Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and for his support for climate change legislation. During the 75-minute event, one man told Graham he had “betrayed” conservatism and made a “pact with the devil” by working with Democrats, and asked when the senator planned to change parties. . . . . . Maybe what really ticked off the conservatives was when Graham argued that the problem should be addressed as soon as...
  • Lawrence Solomon: The end is near ( global warming scare is all over but the shouting )

    10/13/2009 7:27:57 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 99 replies · 2,528+ views
    National Post ^ | October 03, 2009, 1:22 AM by NP Editor | Lawrence Solomon
    The media, polls and even scientists suggest the global warming scare is all over but the shouting The great global warming scare is over — it is well past its peak, very much a spent force, sputtering in fits and starts to a whimpering end. You may not know this yet. Or rather, you may know it but don’t want to acknowledge it until every one else does, and that won’t happen until the press, much of which also knows it, formally acknowledges it.   I know that the global warming scare is over but for the shouting because that’s...
  • AZ 2010: On Climate Bill, The Wooing Of John McCain May Take Longer [you know where this is going]

    10/13/2009 6:07:41 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 23 replies · 1,135+ views
    Dow Jones / Nasdaq ^ | 2009-10-13 | Siobhan Hughes
    WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) - Efforts by U.S. Senate Democrats to persuade Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to endorse their climate legislation may take a bit longer. Democrats have spent months reaching out to McCain through Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. The outreach appeared likely to step up after McCain's friend, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., over the weekend became the first Republican this year to sign on to a bipartisan climate-change plan.
  • Whatever happened to global warming? How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate...

    10/13/2009 4:42:58 PM PDT · by neverdem · 83 replies · 2,906+ views
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 13th October 2009 | NA
    How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate change theory Snowfall: Two mongrels enjoy today's fresh snow in Austria - the earliest snow since records began In the freezing foothills of Montana, a distinctly bitter blast of revolution hangs in the air. And while the residents of the icy city of Missoula can stave off the -10C chill with thermals and fires, there may be no easy remedy for the wintry snap's repercussions. The temperature has shattered a 36-year record. Further into the heartlands of America, the city of Billings registered -12C on Sunday, breaking the 1959 barrier of -5C....
  • Three Decades Of Global Cooling

    10/12/2009 8:33:35 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 18 replies · 1,197+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | October 12, 2009 | IBD staff
    Climate Change: As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming? Al Gore wasn't there to throw out the first snowball, er, baseball, so he might not have noticed that Saturday's playoff game between the Colorado Rockies and the Philadelphia Phillies was snowed out — in early October. The field should have been snow-free just as the North Pole was to be ice-free this year. It seems that ice at both poles hasn't been paying attention to...
  • Energy Secretary Chu's War On Business

    10/12/2009 6:16:18 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 23 replies · 1,451+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 12, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Public Discourse: Our energy secretary applauds and encourages companies to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on climate change. Should any Cabinet secretary, with the powers of government behind him, be threatening U.S. companies? Part of the climate-change mantra is that the debate is over and the science is settled. Just to make sure, environmental groups have sought to pressure businesses to go green or at least keep silent. Now it would appear the whole weight of the federal government is being thrown behind this campaign to coerce and silence real and potential opposition. On Thursday, Steven...
  • Al Gore dodges question about inaccuracies in An Inconvenient Truth

    10/12/2009 8:12:52 AM PDT · by Mozilla · 62 replies · 3,084+ views
    Digital Journal ^ | 10/12/2009 | Michael Krebs
    At a conference for environmental journalists in Wisconsin, Al Gore dodged questions on the many identified errors in his global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth. "We're very close to that political tipping point," Gore said. "Never before in human history has a single generation been asked to make such difficult and consequential decisions." While the audience of environmental journalists were largely in agreement with Mr. Gore's presentation and his positions, one Irish journalist and filmmaker asked Gore about the many scientific errors that were found in Gore's global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth. "A judge in the British High Court,...
  • Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: Climate Myths and National Security

    10/12/2009 12:17:35 AM PDT · by neverdem · 24 replies · 1,017+ views
    American Thinker ^ | October 12, 2009 | Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
    The President of the United States recently told the United Nations that "global warming" poses a threat to national security and may engender conflicts as populations are displaced by rising sea levels, droughts, floods, storms etc. etc. etc. However, it is now clear that there is no basis for the notion that the barely-detectable human influence on the climate is likely to prove a threat to climate, still less to national security. The first principle to which any national security advisor must adhere is that of objective truth. Though he must have an understanding of politics, he is not a...
  • Decades of Global Cooling Ahead?

    09/23/2009 6:31:19 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 66 replies · 2,865+ views
    Real Clear Markets ^ | 9/23/2009 | The Editors of IBD
    <p>Global Warming: President Obama warns of planetary doom at the U.N. if we fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation. Meanwhile, a former warm-monger predicts decades of cooling as the sun stays nearly "spotless."</p> <p>The president had hoped to address Tuesday's United Nations climate change summit in New York with a finished cap-and-trade bill. Failing that, he hoped he'd at least have a version of the Waxman-Markey bill that has passed the House on his desk before the Copenhagen talks in December to cobble together a follow-up to the failed Kyoto Protocol.</p>
  • Left, Media Gearing Up to Thwart Limbaugh's NFL Bid

    10/07/2009 6:29:21 AM PDT · by Rufus2007 · 64 replies · 2,776+ views
    Newsbusters ^ | October 7, 2009 | Jeff Poor
    We've already seen CNN's Paul Begala, affectionately referred to as "The Forehead" by Rush Limbaugh, and one ESPN personality, Fred Roggin, taking shots at Limbaugh on the heels of news of his interest in the National Football League's St. Louis Rams. But it was just a matter of time before the usual culprits on the left would attempt to make an issue of it, in what seems to be an effort to gin up some reason for the talk show host not to have an ownership stake in an NFL team. And, MSNBC's Ed Schultz isn't waiting for pointers from...
  • ABC: Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped By Global Warming

    10/10/2009 10:39:04 AM PDT · by Rufus2007 · 25 replies · 958+ views
    Newsbusters ^ | October 10, 2009 | Noel Sheppard
    Global warming is helping America's sworn enemies al Qaeda as well as the Taliban in Afghanistan. So claimed ABCNews.com's "World News Webcast" Friday in a segment not only designed to increase America's fear of Al Gore's money-making bogeyman, but also give cover to President Obama as things in Afghanistan continue to spiral out of control. Talk about your amazingly convenient, two-fisted, win-win situations. ...more (w/video)...
  • Senate Dems Opening to Nuclear as Path to GOP Support for Climate Bill [McCain, Graham treachery]

    10/09/2009 11:31:47 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 19 replies · 1,241+ views
    The New York Times / Climate Wire ^ | 2009-10-07 | Darren Samuelson
    (snip) "Every idea is on the table," said Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), the lead sponsor of Senate climate legislation. "We're going to work in a bona fide way with everybody to see how to bridge a gap here. We've got to get a 60-vote margin. That means you've got to legislate, which means you have to compromise." Several moderate Senate Republicans, including John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said they are in talks with Kerry and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on the nuclear language, as well as other key issues."A guy like Senator Kerry...
  • Offshore Drilling Could Add, Subtract Support for Senate Climate Bill [Grahamnesty alert]

    10/09/2009 3:41:20 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 14 replies · 615+ views
    Climate Wire / The New York Times ^ | 2009-10-09 | Ben Geman
    Can Congress drill its way to legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions? Perhaps, says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who believes there is public support for both reducing reliance on energy imports and curbing carbon dioxide emissions. "If you married these two ideas up, I think you could get 60 votes, but that means give and take," Graham said yesterday."My hope is that if you marry these two ideas up you would get the votes for a reasonable climate change proposal, that's blocked now, and you would be able to become energy independent, that's blocked now," Graham added. "Both ideas run...
  • What happened to global warming?

    10/09/2009 3:36:31 PM PDT · by neverdem · 41 replies · 2,000+ views
    BBC News ^ | 2009/10/09 | Paul Hudson
    Climate correspondent, BBC News This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on? Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate...
  • Cosmic Ray Decreases Affect Atmospheric Aerosols And Clouds

    10/06/2009 12:27:50 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 29 replies · 987+ views
    ScienceDaily.com ^ | Oct 6, 2009 | ScienceDaily
    Billions of tonnes of water droplets vanish from the atmosphere in events that reveal in detail how the Sun and the stars control our everyday clouds. Researchers of the National Space Institute in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have traced the consequences of eruptions on the Sun that screen the Earth from some of the cosmic rays -- the energetic particles raining down on our planet from exploded stars. "The Sun makes fantastic natural experiments that allow us to test our ideas about its effects on the climate," says Prof. Henrik Svensmark, lead author of a report newly published...