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The UK’s leading scientific body has been forced to rewrite its guide on climate change and admit that it is not known how much warmer the Earth will become. The Royal Society has updated its guide after 43 of its members complained that the previous version failed to take into account the opinion of climate change sceptics. Now the new guide, called ‘Climate change: a summary of the science’, admits that there are some ‘uncertainties’ regarding the science behind climate change. And it says that it impossible to know for sure how the Earth's climate will change in the future...

It may not be possible to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation in this Congress, writes Senator Jeff Bingaman (D. - New Mexico) in a recent op-ed, but if American wants to realize the “energy security, environmental security and economic benefits of the clean energy revolution” bipartisan efforts like the creation of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) cannot be put off. Senator John Kerry says climate change threatens to undermine progress on global development. “Changing global temperatures and weather patterns will inject a new element of chaos into the already-fragile existences of the world’s poorest people,” writes the...

WASHINGTON – The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about "America's addiction to oil." One member has blogged about it regularly. Only one of the seven commissioners, the dean of Harvard's engineering and applied sciences school, has a prominent engineering background — but it's in optics and physics. Another is an environmental scientist with expertise in coastal areas and the after-effects of oil spills. Both are praised by other scientists. The five other commissioners are experts in policy and management. The White...

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - A long-awaited compromise bill to reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming will be unveiled by a group of senators on April 26, sources said on Thursday. The legislative language to be sketched out in 11 days, according to government and environmental sources, is being drafted by Democratic Senator John Kerry, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman. Backers of the environmental bill hope the unveiling will pave the way for the full Senate to debate and pass a measure in June or July if the compromise...

It took Democratic leaders weeks of negotiations, deal-cutting and floor debate before they could squeak a broad health care overhaul bill through the Senate last month. But that was nothing compared to the challenge facing Senate leaders this spring if they press forward with disputed energy and climate change legislation. The plan to cap greenhouse gases blamed for the Earth's rising temperature is complicated by election-year politics and fears about exacerbating U.S. economic woes. It also is hindered by moderate Democrats' wariness about the centerpiece of the leading proposals: so-called cap-and-trade programs that would allow refiners, manufacturers and other carbon...

-snip- “Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” Farr said at a Baird Industrial Outlook conference in Chicago, Bloomberg News reported. “Cap and trade, medical reform, labor rules … I’m not going to hire anybody in the United States. I’m moving. They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs.” -snip-

"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican political operative? A Fox News political analyst? One of those several hundred thousand Tea Partiers who assembled in Washington on Sept. 12? No, it was Lawrence Summers, the director of Barack Obama's National Economic Council and, by common consent, one of the world's leading economists Summers made this gloomy forecast in the course of arguing that our economy is headed to "sustained recovery." And while it sounds like self-protective political rhetoric, it...

"(E)conomic sustainability with a localized currency with a triple-credit-rating" "Triple Bottom Line accounting was invented to try to get at the real costs of business which are often externalized in the normal economy. Instead of internalizing the complexity and attempting to account for all such external effects, we suggest another approach. Set up external feedback loops for people and planetary impacts then create a financial consequences by effecting their cost and availability of money. Threebles (from 3ble - Triple Bottom Line Economics) are a currency which incorporates a triple-credit-rating so Social, Natural and Financial Capital can all be included in...

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By now you've heard the news: the House has passed the cap & trade bill that will saddle Americans with thousands of dollars in new taxes, fees and costs each year. It's just the latest big government, quasi-socialistic policy that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid team are trying to force through in their efforts to remake America into a nation that our Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize. Today there will be protests all across the nation against this measure - and the Our Country Deserves Better Committee will be having our staff, leadership and supporters out joining the resistance against these un-American leftist policies....

WASHINGTON—Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., in the middle of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S.-China climate change relations, leaned forward in his chair and asked the expert panel, “What’s the catastrophe?” Lugar, a long-time advocate of emissions reductions and global warming prevention, asked the expert panel to clarify just what the disaster would be if carbon emissions are not reduced. The three members of the panel, all experts on greenhouse gas emissions in China, looked at each other and hesitated. The panel had reached a consensus that the United States and China contribute 40 percent of the world’s greenhouse...

It gives me great pleasure to announce the end of “global warming.” Or rather at least the term “global warming.” As doubt about the hysteria of global warming and anthropogenic climate change continue to grow amidst the scientific community and the public, a new marketing message by advocates of the theory is beginning to emerge. Much like how the Obama Administration has decided to forgo the use of the phrases ‘enemy combatant’ and the ‘Global War on Terror’ because they were deemed offensive, it is believed that messaging will help turn the tide and spur action on climate change. The...