Climategate Ad Some of the most prominent scientists pushing the theory of man-made warming hail from or have ties to the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Norwich,England. CRU scientists have played a major role in the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (aka IPCC). CRU has been described as the […]
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CORE Joins No Cap-and-Trade Coalition
Highlights social injustice of proposed climate change policies  The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) announced today that they have joined the No Cap and Trade Coalition in the fight against cap-and-trade legislation and the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty. The coalition is comprised of over 30 state and federal public policy groups and think tanks […]
Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule
By Jeffrey Ball and Charles Forelle Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. An “endangerment” finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the […]
12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal
News Coverage Even as Copenhagen looms, broadcast news ignores e-mails suggesting warming alarmists ‘manipulated’ data, conspired to destroy information and thwarted peer reviews By Julia Seymour It’s been nearly two weeks since a scandal shook many people’s faith in the scientists behind global warming alarmism. The scandal forced the University of East Anglia (UK) to […]
LA Times Changes Its Mind: Science Doesn't Matter On Climate Bill
By Candance Moore That thumping sound you hear is the Los Angeles Times moving the goal posts in the global warming debate. On November 22, while responding to the growing scandal about alleged proof that global warming is a hoax, the Times brushed it off with a puzzling claim that science should have no bearing […]
Stagnating Temperatures – Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time Out
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents. By Gerald Traufetter At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish […]
Coca-Cola’s Bizarre Dichotomy
As is noted at NoCapAndTrade.com, Coca-Cola is a target of a boycott against companies who support cap and trade legislation, or the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty (which is designed to implement global cap and trade regulations of carbon dioxide). The fact that they would support regulating carbon dioxide emissions is in itself quite bizarre, since […]
No Treaty? No Problem! Obama to Push Ahead Anyway
Obama’s plans for Copenhagen accord may violate US Constitution President Obama’s plan for an international cap-and-trade agreement negotiated at the upcoming Copenhagen climate conference to go into “immediate effect” may violate the United States Constitution, claim representatives of the No Cap-and-Trade Coalition. Quoted in a Reuters news story today, Obama said, “Our aim is not […]
Climate Deal Must Have Immediate Effect, Obama Says
By Chris Buckley and Alister Doyle U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen should cut a deal with “immediate operational effect”, even if its original aim of a legally binding pact is not achievable. Obama was speaking after talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao in which he said the […]
Obama Retreats on Climate Change
By Jennifer Loven, AP President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed today that next month’s much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely a way station, not the once hoped-for end point, in the search for a worldwide global warming treaty. The 192-nation climate conference beginning in three weeks in Copenhagen had originally been intended […]
The Coming Climate Dictatorship
By IBD Editorial Board Control: The House and Senate climate bills contain a provision giving the president extraordinary powers in the event of a “climate emergency.” As chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. If you thought the House health care bill that nobody read has hidden passages […]
Democrats Move Greenhouse Bill Along Without GOP
By Jennifer Dlouhy A key Senate committee today approved a plan to impose the nation’s first-ever caps on greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, over the objections of panel Republicans who have blocked work on the measure. The Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-1 — with seven Republican members skipping the vote — […]
US scales down hopes of global climate change treaty in Copenhagen
Binding agreement not expected in Copenhagen Administration working towards treaty next year America refuses to rush into reaching a climate change deal in Denmark By Suzanne Goldenberg and John Vidal The US has given up hope of reaching a global climate change treaty at Copenhagen and is working towards a deal late next year, the […]
Save the Planet? Kill Cap-and-Trade
From the Washington Examiner If members of Congress need yet another reason to kill the Waxman-Markey bill, the Obama administration’s economy-suffocating, job-destroying energy program, Princeton University’s Tim Searchinger and his colleagues have a humdinger: Carbon reduction laws encourage widespread deforestation as trees and other vegetation are harvested to produce energy from biomass to replace oil […]
Obama's One-World Government
By Chuck Norris Halloween just got scarier — much scarier. Flying deep under Washington’s radar is an upcoming (December) global climate change conference in Copenhagen, the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.” It all sounds pretty politically benign, doesn’t it? Not according to Christopher Monckton, who was a science policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher. […]