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Don’t Panic Over Predictions of Climate Doom- Get the Facts on James Hansen ‘High Crimes Against Humanity’ Trial for Climate Skeptics? Weblink to Part Two of Fact Sheet on James Hansen: NASA scientist James Hansen has created worldwide media frenzy with his call for trials against those who dissent against man-made global warming fears. [ See: UK Register: Veteran climate scientist says 'lock up the oil men' – June 23, 2008 & UK Guardian: NASA scientist calls for putting oil firm chiefs on trial for 'high crimes against humanity' for spreading doubt about man-made global warming – June 23, 2008...

Dems Running on Empty by Sen. James Inhofe What a difference three years makes: In 2005, I led the charge against a massive global warming cap-and-trade bill. It was a lonely battle with few GOP members willing to join me on the Senate floor to publicly oppose it. Fast forward to June 2008: Not only was I joined by dozens of GOP Senators, but nearly 30% of the Democratic Senators rebelled against their leadership and opposed the Boxer Climate Tax Bill. In the end, Senator Boxer only had at most 35 Democratic Senators willing to vote for final passage on...

June 11, 2008 Fact Check on Boxer's Climate Tax Bill Claims Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) made several assertions during her June 10 floor speech on the failed climate tax bill and energy issues. Below is a sampling of some of Boxer’s claims, followed by fact checks: Boxer Claim: “We had 46 Democrats for dealing with global warming.” Fact: Over 20% of Senate Democrats opposed the Climate Tax Bill. Boxer had at most only 35 Democratic Senators willing to vote "yes" on final passage. A letter signed on June 6 by ten Democratic Senators explicitly stated they “cannot support final passage”...

Posted Marc Morano – 3:43 PM EST – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov BREAKING NEWS: Boxer’s Math Does Not Add Up Letter Reveals 10 Democratic Senators Opposed Climate Tax Bill Click Here to Read Letter: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) claimed today that Democrats had the support of 54 U.S. Senators for the Climate Tax Bill. Directly contradicting Boxer’s assertion is a letter signed on June 6 by ten Democratic Senators explicitly stating they “cannot support final passage” of the Climate Tax Bill. The letter indicates that Boxer would apparently only have had at most 45 votes today to support final passage of the bill....

Excerpt: This week’s Climate Tax Bill debate revealed many useful insights into why the American people will remain skeptical of a global warming cap-and-trade system. The Wall Street Journal aptly noted on June 6 that environmentalists are "stunned that their global warming agenda is in collapse" after the Climate Tax Bill debate. "The green groups now look as politically intimidating as the skinny kid on the beach who gets sand kicked in his face. Those groups spent millions advertising and lobbying to push the cap-and-trade bill through the Senate," the paper noted. "With gasoline selling at $4 a gallon, the...

Posted By Marc Morano – 9:51 AM EST – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov Cooling Underway: Global Temperature Continues to Drop in May 'Significantly Colder' - 16-month temperature drop of -0.774°C! Global temperatures continued to slide in May 2008. Meteorologist Anthony Watts details the cooling temperatures in a report titled “Global Temperature Dives in May.” The new global temperature data reveals a whopping three quarters of a degree Celsius drop in temperatures since January 2007. Watts reported late yesterday that the cooling is “equal in magnitude to the generally agreed upon ‘global warming signal’ of the last 100 years.” “Confirming what many of us...

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=4baad06a-802a-23ad-42d7-350ee0918ec4&Issue_id= Posted By Marc Morano ? 6:09 PM ET ? Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov Boxer Claims Recession is Best Time to Raise Energy Costs Read More About the Impacts of Lieberman-Warner: www.epw.senate.gov/lieberman-warnerbillexposed Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), the chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, declared in her opening floor speech today that a ?recession is the precise time to" enact the Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill because it ?brings us hope.? The Lieberman-Warner global warming bill would have many consequences, but ?hope? is not among them. The Cleveland Plain Dealer editorialized on June 1, that the bill "will just bore new holes...

May 28, 2008 Posted By Marc Morano – 3:33 PM EST – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov New York Times Makes Factual Blunder Paper erroneously claims Senate last voted on global warming bill in 2003 A New York Times editorial today arguing in favor of the Senate’s upcoming mandatory global warming cap-and-trade legislation committed a blatant factual error. The May 28 Times editorial incorrectly claimed, “The Senate last addressed climate change in 2003 when it cast 43 votes in favor of a bill sponsored by Mr. McCain and Mr. Lieberman.” (LINK) In their apparently hasty Google search of Senate history, the editors at the...

Inhofe Says Listing of Polar Bear Based on Politics, Not Science Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Contact:   Marc Morano 202-224-5762 marc_morano@epw.senate.gov Matt Dempsey 202-224-9797 matthew_dempsey@epw.senate.gov      Inhofe Says Listing of Polar Bear Based on Politics, Not Science “With the number of polar bears substantially up over the past forty years, the decision announced today appears to be based entirely on unproven computer models.” WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today expressed disappointment with the U.S. Department of Interior's final decision to list the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered...

Alert: World Sea Ice At 25 year high! Report: World Sea Ice reaches 'unprecedented' 25 year high in April! (By Climate data analyst Stephen McIntyre of ClimateAudit.org, one of the individuals responsible for debunking the infamous "Hockey Stick" temperature graph) Excerpt: On a global basis, world sea ice in April 2008 reached levels that were “unprecedented” for the month of April in over 25 years. Levels are the third highest (for April) since the commencement of records in 1979, exceeded only by levels in 1979 and 1982. This continues a pattern established earlier in 2008, as global sea ice in...

Scientists React to 'Global Warming Will Stop' Study Sampling of Scientists Commenting on 'global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate' study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on May 1: (See Earlier Blog on Study Here) “It’s All Unraveling” – Oh dear! The inevitable is happening. The ‘global warming’ trope is unraveling on a daily basis - scientifically, economically, and politically." – May 2, 2008 - UK Professor Emeritus of Biogeography Philip Stott of the University of London. (LINK) “This whole climate change issue is rapidly disintegrating. From now onwards climate alarmists...

Posted By Marc Morano - 6:40 PM ET - Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov BREAKING NEWS: Global Warming Will 'Stop', New Peer-Reviewed Study Says Global Warming Takes a Break for Nearly 20 Years? Today’s UK Telegraph reports: “Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said. Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly...

Inhofe Demands ‘Dramatic’ Action to Address Food vs. Fuel Mandates WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, delivered a floor speech today calling for “dramatic” action to address global food difficulties caused in part by current biofuel mandates. “I come to the floor today to demand two dramatic and necessary actions to help mitigate our current biofuel policy blunder,” Senator Inhofe said. “First, Congress must revisit the recently enacted biofuel mandate, which can only be described as the most expansive biofuel mandate in our nation’s history. The mandates were part of...

Senator Inhofe Excerpt: "Despite this gloomy EIA analysis, proponents of Lieberman-Warner are still claiming the bill will not impose economic harm to America. Only in Washington could higher energy prices be characterized as not negatively impacting the U.S. economy. If Democrats have their way, Americans will pay significantly more at the pump, in their homes, and in many cases, with their jobs, all to accomplish an undetectable impact on the climate. "The question now is which U.S. Senator will dare to stand on the Senate Floor a month from now to vote in favor of significantly increasing the price of...

Polar Bears Potential ESA Listing Called ‘Regulatory Monster’ For the second time in the past three months, the EPW Committee conducted a hearing on the decision to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The potential listing of the polar bear under ESA is being promoted by many activists as a way to save the bear. Today’s hearing also focused on the Department of the Interior’s failure to meet its court-ordered and statutory deadlines for making a listing decision and the subsequent lawsuit brought by environmental groups. FACT: Worldwide polar bear population numbers are at or...

Media Hype on ‘Melting’ Antarctic Ignores Record Ice Growth The media is once again hyping an allegedly dire consequence of man-made global warming. This time the media is promoting the ice loss of one tiny fraction of the giant ice-covered continent and completely ignoring the current record ice growth on Antarctica. Contrary to media hype, the vast majority of Antarctica has cooled over the past 50 years and ice coverage has grown to record levels since satellite monitoring began in the 1979, according to peer-reviewed studies and scientists who study the area. (LINK) Former Weather Channel Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo rejected...

Global 'mourning'? 'Earth-related mental illness' said to be on the rise! Excerpt: A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being influenced strongly by ecosystem transformation related to climate change and industry-related displacement from the land. These powerful stressors are occurring more frequently around the world. […], “Global Mourning: How the next victim of climate change will be our minds,” writer Clive Thompson sensitively characterized as “global mourning” the potential impact of overwhelming environmental transformation caused by climate change. Thompson cogently summed up Albrecht’s view of what solastalgia might look like were it...

Note: Below is by Paleoclimate scientist Dr. Bob Carter of Australia's James Cook University, who has published numerous peer-reviewed papers. Excerpt: UN climate body in panic mode as satellite temperatures turn down and a hard winter lashes both hemispheres [...] The IPCC’s 2007 final Summary for Policymakers shows that the climate alarmists are at last on the run. Their evidence for dangerous, human-caused global warming, always slim, now lies exposed in tatters for all to see. In contrast, the alternative, persuasive and non-alarmist view of climate change is well summarized in two recently issued and readily available documents. The first...

[Note: For more on children being indoctrinated into man-made climate fears see: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=DDDC4451-802A-23AD-4000-A9B55ED9489A ] 6th Grade Class Denounces Global Warming Skeptics as 'Horrible People' Excerpt: If you doubt teachers across the country are trying to brainwash schoolchildren with global warming alarmism, take a look inside the sixth grade classroom of teacher Michael Steria at David A. Brown Middle School in Wildomar, California. Twenty-five sixth graders teamed up to write eight letters to The Heartland Institute describing what they had been taught about global warming. [..] Global warming "means that if we don´t fix the climate, everything will be destroyed and...

March 12, 2008 Posted by Marc Morano – 4:43 PM ET – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov Boxer Waves White Flag on Lieberman-Warner Climate Bill Washington DC - Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer conceded today that the Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill would be pulled if “weakening amendments” are added during the scheduled June 2008 floor debate. Boxer’s pledge today appeared to signal the 2008 exit strategy for pulling the Lieberman-Warner bill (America's Climate Security Act - S2191.) Greenwire reporter Darren Samuelsohn described Boxer as “pledging to punt the issue into 2009 if any amendments get added that weaken the legislation.”...