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Graham Withdraws Support for Climate Legislation

By Juliet Eilperin The effort to enact comprehensive climate and energy legislation this year suffered a critical blow Saturday when Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), the key Republican proponent of the bill, withdrew his support because of what he said was a “cynical political” decision by Democrats to advance immigration legislation first. The move forced […]

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Alarmists keep ringing the bell

By Dr. Richard Lindzen In November last year a file appeared on the internet containing thousands of emails and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain. How this file got into the public domain is still uncertain, but the emails, whose authenticity is no longer in question, […]

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James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed

We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world where everyone can have their say. It’s all very well, but there are certain circumstances – a war is a typical example – where you can’t do that. You’ve got to have a few people with authority who you trust who […]

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Car Emissions Rules Likely to Trigger Litigation

By Jenna Greene The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation Thursday finalized the first-ever national greenhouse gas emission levels for cars and light trucks, a move that is likely to bring a gust of new lawsuits. The main target may not be the rule itself, which came after painstaking negotiations with the auto […]

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Obama Okays Oil Drilling off U.S. Coasts, to Win GOP Support for Cap and Trade

New oil drilling, if it happens, is many years away, while cap-and-trade legislation is here and now By Philip Elliot, AP Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an expansive new policy that could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern […]

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Depressing

By Richard of EUReferendum It’s been a heady few months for climate sceptics – or “deniers” as the opposition loves to call us. Starting with “climategate”, through a progression of “gates” with much else in between – including the apparent collapse at Copenhagen – it seemed as if we had the warmists on the run.Certainly, […]

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Global Warming: Obituary and Post Mortem

R.I.P. Global Warming 1992-2010 By Dr. Goldstein 2010 will be remembered as the year Global Warming died.  Global Warming was Mann made using clever computer ‘tricks’ and ‘massaged’ data. After slowly developing in the womb of junk science for several years, the primary birth announcement and christening occurred when Al Gore published Earth in the […]

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Now it's CowGate: Expert Report Says Claims of Livestock Causing Global Warming are False

By Gerald Warner It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unravelling. The latest reversal of scientific “consensus” is on livestock and the meat trade as a major cause of global warming – one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to eco-vegetarian cranks. Now a […]

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After health, Obama allies zero in on climate

From Breitbart News: After a hard-fought victory on health care reform, President Barack Obama’s allies in Congress are pledging to move forward on climate change — but some environmentalists remain skeptical. Twenty-two Democratic senators have signed a letter calling for climate legislation within the year, although some observers question whether the White House will want […]

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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Releases Report on CRU (Climategate) Controversy

Senator Inhofe Intruduces Report to EPW Committee The Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a report today titled, “‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy.” The report covers the controversy surrounding emails and documents released from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU). It examines the extent to which […]

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WCCO Radio Discussion of Global Warming & GlobalClimateScam.com

I was a guest on the Michele Tafoya Show on Twin Cites News Talk station, WCCO 830 AM on Tuesday to discuss global warming and our website, GlobalClimateScam.com. Michele wanted to get both sides of the global warming debate represented in the discussion, so her first guest was Jay Drake-Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh […]

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Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition

By Stephen Power And Ben Casselman Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won’t renew their membership in the three-year-old […]

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UN climate chief Rajendra Pachauri 'got grants through bogus claims'

By Jonathan Leake The chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Rajendra Pachauri’s Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York […]

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