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Unprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads – how can there be global warming with this unusual winter weather? CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn’t impact his opinion. Myers, an American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, explained on CNN’s Dec. 18 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the whole idea is arrogant and mankind was in danger of dying from other natural events more so than global warming. “You know, to think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant,” Myers said....

CHICAGO (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama was set Monday to name his energy and environmental chiefs and vow a new dawn for US leadership against climate change after eight years of Republican "denial." After talks with his national security team, Obama was to name more cabinet lieutenants at a news conference where he was also facing questions over Illinois's scandal-hit governor. Obama's transition team said the press conference in Chicago would "discuss the nation's energy and environmental future." Obama was reportedly to nominate Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary, placing the expert in renewable energy on the...

POZNAN, Poland (AFP) – George W. Bush's last hurrah in the global climate arena has met with a welling of disdain contrasting with the outsized expectations for his successor, Barack Obama. At the UN climate talks in Poznan, no farewell tears were shed for Bush, whose rejection of the landmark Kyoto Protocol in 2001 almost destroyed multilateral efforts to roll back global warming. "I don't know how to put this," top climate economist Nicholas Stern said mischievously at a dinner for businessmen and environmentalists, where he commented on Obama's election. "Relative to his prehistoric predecessor, it is something which we...

The Goracle spoke to an audience in Germany this week where he told them that "the entire North Polarized cap will disappear in 5 years." By 2013?... This guy is insane.

For years, Al Gore and other environmental extremists have sounded the alarm about the global climate crisis. I agree especially after yesterday’s freakish snowfall in New Orleans. It is high time for all clear minded scientists to unite behind a plan to combat global cooling. It should be clear to everyone now that global cooling is a real problem. In fact, the cooling of the earth’s temperature is a real crisis that demands action. Yesterday, the metropolitan New Orleans area received the earliest snowfall in recorded history. Some suburban areas north of New Orleans received 8 inches of snow! This...

Video of the Goreacle speaking in Germany this past week.

Environmentalists See Golden Opportunity in Obama Administration Twenty-eight green groups compiled 359 pages of suggestions, hoping for a green revival post-Bush. By MARK CLAYTON Dec. 11, 2008— The toxic lead-tainted earth that crunches under Rebecca Jim's feet when the environmental activist visits Tar Creek in northeast Oklahoma reminds her that in the United States today, the "polluter doesn't pay." Lead and zinc mining over a century turned Tar Creek orange, poisoned residents, and made it the nation's first Superfund toxic cleanup site in 1983. But a quarter century later, the federal cleanup fund is broke and the 40-square-mile area dubbed...

Al Gore has a competitor for title of America's climate crusader. His name is Barack Obama, and of all his immediate foreign policy changes none will mark as big a shift from the Bush administration as his approach to cutting carbon emissions, the leading cause of global warming. "President Obama will be like night and day compared to President Bush," Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told reporters this week at U.N.-sponsored climate talks in Poznan, Poland.

Politics: Barack Obama's apparent choice for Energy secretary is physicist Steven Chu. While there's no question about Chu's brilliance, his political activism is not what the country needs.Chu is a Nobel Prize winner. He's also a tree sitter. Not the kind who literally goes out on a limb in a childish fit of civil disobedience in order to stop loggers or developers from cutting down a tree. But Chu did plop himself on a California buckeye tree last year to pose for a photo for Vanity Fair's special "green" issue. The tree could be passed off as a meaningless prop...

Barack Obama doesn't have a mandate for his global warming policies. He doesn't even have a mandate from his most fervent supporters.Last month, President-elect Obama promised to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 — approximately a 16% cut — and then to cut them an additional 80% by 2050. That's a 68% cut from today's levels and would mean trimming U.S. carbon emissions to roughly where they were in 1905. Think about 1905 for a minute. There were just 77,988 registered vehicles in the U.S., compared to over 250 million today — or just one vehicle...

Everyone on the planet could get identical greenhouse-gas emission rights as part of a drive to halve emissions by 2050, according to a study by Chinese scientists. The work was presented on the sidelines of a UN conference on fighting global warming that is currently taking place in Poznan, Poland. It would force nations such as the US, which have used the most fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution to buy emission rights from poor nations. "Developed countries [should] take the lead in reducing emissions," said Su Wei, head of climate change at China's National Development and Reform Commission. The...

Poor nations to get funds to fight climate change Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference broke through red tape and freed up millions of dollars Friday to help poor countries adapt to increasingly severe droughts, floods and other effects of global warming. "This could be the one thing to come out of Poznan," said Kit Vaughan of WWF-Britain. The decision in the final hours of the two-week conference could begin to release some $60 million (euro45 million) within months, according to delegates and environmentalists following the closed-door talks. "This is an important step," said delegate Mozaharul Alam of Bangladesh.

If you had to guess who would be courageous enough, brave enough, creative enough, caring enough to host an Inaugural Ball that was environmentally friendly, what name would pop into your head?Yep.Him.From the Washington Times: Former Vice President Al Gore will host a "green" inaugural ball the night before President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office."The Green Ball: Inauguration of a New Green Economy" will be held Jan. 19 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington. I swear, I could read these things for hours. A draft version of the invitation, obtained by The Washington Times, urges people...

After the selection of a largely centrist economic team, liberals have been asking when President-elect Obama would give them a seat at the table. Well, now we know, and Americans should strap themselves in. Mr. Obama is stocking his energy shop with the greenest of greens who want to move fast on a very aggressive climate agenda. Here come the carbon busters. It's striking that the moderate in this bunch may be Steven Chu, who has reportedly been tapped as Energy Secretary. Though a political unknown, Mr. Chu is the respected director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the...

Climate Change: When the United Nations insists that man-made global warming is now proved beyond doubt, it's practicing one of the few things it has proved itself good at: censorship of dissenting viewpoints.The wasteful, corrupt, dictatorship-dominated U.N. may not be successful in fulfilling very many of its supposed objectives — world peace, the end of poverty, mutual understanding, etc. — but when it comes to suppressing contrarian points of view that interfere with official U.N. stances, the organization ranks with the best. Take the attempts two years ago to tell the truth about the anti-Semitism of the Hamas terrorist organization,...

Sen. Kerry expects swift new US policy on climate By ARTHUR MAX – 2 hours ago POZNAN, Poland (AP) — Sen. John Kerry said Thursday that a new draft treaty on global warming should be possible even if the United States does not impose mandatory limits on greenhouse gases before the next pivotal climate conference. Kerry said in an interview with the Associated Press that he expects the United States to have a climate policy in place within a year that will allow it to join the worldwide effort to combat global warming.

It's been a while since we have agitated all you global warmers out there. In case you all didn't know, the UN is having a little climate conference in Poland right now. And an Associated Press report from Poland says, "Scientists studying the changing nature of the Earth's climate say they have completed one crucial task -- proving beyond a doubt that global warming is real. Now they have to figure out just what to do about it." Aren't you thrilled? The UN has figured it out! The debate is over! And right now more than 10,000 UN delegates and...

<p>POZNAN, Poland, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's man at a U.N. climate conference in Poland said the United States and Europe could jointly lead on climate protection.</p> <p>"Europe is a vital partner and can and will be critical in efforts" to help curb climate change, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Thursday told reporters on the sidelines of a major climate conference in the western Polish city of Poznan. Kerry said under Obama, the United States would rejoin the global climate-protection effort with full force.</p>

ABSTRACT: Just as the U.S. gets a new President who promises to reverse years of climate change neglect, with Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore at his side, American environmental experts worry that Europe's resolve on climate change is substantially weakening. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone out of her way to show herself as a climate saviour. But those times are over. Now, with heads of state and government from the European Union gathering in Brussels at the end of the week to approve the bloc's climate goals, Merkel has begun singing a different tune. She said that she...

The scare In early December 2008, The Guardian, a newspaper of the British Left and an unquestioning true-believer in the catastrophist version of climate alarm, quoted Professor Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, as saying computer models such as one that he has developed can now ascribe individual extreme-weather events to anthropogenic "global warming", allowing environmental pressure groups to sue the corporations they believe are to blame for the catastrophic heating of the planet. Professor Allen joked, "We are starting to get to the point that when an adverse weather event occurs we can quantify how much more likely...