Then comes the United States Senate, which has ignored climate change for 15 consecutive years since ratifying the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Finally, there is Obama, who effectively abandoned a systematic course of action under the UN framework, because it was proving nettlesome to US power and [...]
Scant few other than President Obama claim Copenhagen’s global warming summit was a success because, well, for obvious reasons. How do others feel about it?
“India hailed Tuesday the lack of targets and legally binding measures in the Copenhagen climate accord and vaunted the united front presented by major emerging countries [...]
There is a moment in Malcolm Lowry’s novel Under The Volcano that reminds me of climate change sceptics.
Doomed alcoholic Geoffrey Firmin is on a journey towards death but he insists to his estranged wife Yvonne and brother that he can drink a beer or two because beer isn’t really alcohol.
For [...]
Here’s two panels from Throbgoblins on the debacle in Copenhagen. Read the whole thing on their site
Yessiree, Team USA sure scored a big win indeed.
As for that piece of rubbish in The Independent blaming the whole things on China, Socialist Unity makes mincemeat of [...]
We’ve pointed out the vast wealth flowing from your wallet to governments to think tanks like the East Anglia Climate Research Unit where temperature data was cooked and manipulated to advance the cause and keep the money coming. And of course there’s the potential hundreds of billions in reparations [...]
President Barack Obama delivered this brief address on Friday at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK.
A short week on tap in presidential politics, and a nearly non-existent week in California politics.
This is due to Christmas, naturally — and incidentally, let me now quote Lane Pryce from [...]
Not too long ago, one of our critics faulted me for not fact-checking a line in a recent post.* I had said something appeared to be true because the only confirmation I had (of this point) was a response to a friend’s facebook posting. Given that man’s criticism, I [...]
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“The rich countries of the north helped bankers, the big banks. I’ve forgotten the figure, but it’s astronomical. What they’re saying on the streets is that ‘if the climate was a bank they would already have saved it’. I think it’s true.”
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Responding to a passage in "On the Right" commenter Stephen describes Unqualified Reservations' Climategate: history's message as a textbook on the bull-goose looney state that is AGW's argument. He's correct. This is an essay that has a touch of greatness about it as well' [...]
Now that President Obama has declare a magnificient victory in Copenhagen after accomplishing none - that’s zero - of the climate summit’s goals, it’s a good time to note the mindset that drives such stuff.
It’s important to remember that statists, such as the Democrats who run the White House and [...]
The US did as little as they could at COP15. Obama’s speech in Copenhagen today was tepid, and the pretend agreement just announced is way too little, with even the US government saying it wasn’t enough to stop climate change.
The health care reform bill as proposed is, I think, [...]
Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez
Congressman George Miller, telephoning from Copenhagen this morning, described what appears to be the failure of world leaders to come to an agreement at the global climate change summit as a disappointment but not waste of time.
“You would like [...]
President Barack Obama spoke to the U.N. summit on climate change this morning and told the representatives from around the world that they need to agree on action and that the United States will act regardless of what they do.
“I believe we can [...]
After a chaotic day into night of evanescent negotiation in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama said a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough” had been reached among the U.S., China and three other countries on an effort to curb climate change. But there is clearly an enormous amount of work to be [...]
We’re shocked (of course we aren’t) to learn today that global warming “researchers” (read propagandists) cherry-picked temperature data to show temperatures to be higher than actually were in Russia.
Separate reports about the U.K. Met Office from a Russian think tank say so.
U.K. climatologists “probably tampered with Russian-climate data” [...]
The first law of models: crap in, crap out.
[...]We all saw this one coming when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for her position on climate change and global warming. Palin went right for Schwarzenegger's weakness: His state's (our state's) upside-down finances.
"Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in'" [...]
U.N. climate talks deadlocked Wednesday, two days before global leaders hoped to sign an agreement. Police confronted protesters outside the Copenhagen conference venue with pepper spray and batons.
** COPENHAGEN BLUES: OBAMA’S WEAK HAND ON CLIMATE, AND THE CALIFORNIA OPTION. As he prepares to go to Copenhagen for the [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won't make any political points with the conservative wing of his party with this one. Schwarzenegger says former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out of touch if she thinks global warming is a hoax.
"You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish?" Schwarzenegger told the' [...]
Here’s the entirety of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.
From The Guardian (UK): “Until today, Copenhagen’s most famous citizen was a girl with a fishy tail sitting on a rock. No more. The day saw the big beasts of the green jungle [...]
Governor Schwarzenegger's big day in Copenhagen talking about climate change gave him a chance to not only push his idea of action in places other than national legislatures, while also giving him a chance to smack some climate change critics in the process.
"I think it is nonsense talk," [...]
This in advance of the big protest planned for tomorrow. No word on why Tadzio Mueller of Climate Justice Action was arrested by plainclothes police who promise to detail why when they get around to it, which will almost certainly be after the protest.
Kevin [...]
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger addressed the UN climate summit today in Copenhagen.
** NEW COLUMN COMING UP … OBAMA’S WEAK HAND ON CLIMATE, AND THE CALIFORNIA OPTION.
** QUICK HITS. President Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with Senate Democrats today saying that national health care reform is on the verge of [...]
Schwarzenegger urges US to lead fight on climate
Arnold Schwarzenegger has urged the White House to emulate California in taking a lead in the fight against climate change, saying “it would be good for the whole world . . [...]
If so, then under existing climate change treaties, the US would have to export technology to China and China would not have reduce its emissions.
Tuvalu thinks that is insane. So does The Breakthrough Institute.
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For months -- or at least since Van Jones was still working for President Obama -- we've wondered what it would take to get a rise out of GOP guv candidate Meg Whitman. Now we know: A radio ad...
