Copenhagen Climate Summit in Disarray. Guardian UK, December 8, 2009. The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. Note: This is not necessarily good news. Stay tuned!

Obama Has Extreme EPA CO2 Regulations in Pocket for Copenhagen After All. Fox News, December 7, 2009. The EPA will announce today that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and have thousands of pages of new regulations to curb it. It is designed to give Obama a major coo at the Copenhagen meeting that started today. The US envoy to Copenhagen called Climategate a "small blip," as expected. Note: This has been in the works for two years. The EPA regs are far worse than the Senate cap and trade bill ever hoped to be. For background read "Twilight Zone to Lunacy"

Exposing the Global Warming Lie. nocapandtrade.us, December 5, 2009. An in-depth review by Dr. Michael Coffman on the real facts and truth behind the Climate Research Unit's effort to manipulate climate data and shape the global warming debate. Note: Important background as Copenhagen gets underway amongst proclamations that the hacked emails do not change the treat of man-made global warming.

Liberal Media Continue to Suppress Phony Global Warming Scam. Examiner.com, December 4, 2009. "On Fox news today it was pointed out that neither CBS, nor NBC, nor ABC had any news that covered this enormously important news clip regarding the emails that show the evidence of corruption in the global warming scam. The liberal media appears more interested in propaganda than fact. This is clearly evident in their blatant suppression of pertinent news that counters their political philosophy. It is sad to see this level of corruption.

NASA Also Hiding Climate Data? Washington Times, December 3, 2009. Christopher C. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data dating as far back as the 1930s. He is about to sue NASA.

UK Climate Scientist to Temporarily Step Down. AP, December 1, 2009. LONDON — Britain's University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down (finally) pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change. Note: the hacked or released emails painted Jones and his associates as schemers who were not above cooking the books while demonizing all opposition; even to the point of getting them fired.

On Climate Data, Trends and Peer Review. New York Times, November 30, 2009. CRU is not the only group in the world that is tracking the change in global-average near-surface temperature. There are three other groups; NOAA; NASA, JMA. Note: The other three data sets track the CRU data quite well. However, additional studies have shown that data manipulation and the heat island effect greatly skews the NOAA and NASA data so that it shows a much higher warming than reality. Published articles clearly show the temperature rise since 1980 would be cut in half if corrected.

Global Warming Fraud Uncovered. Tribune.com, November 27, 2009. Many scientists have tried to obtain raw data utilized by CRU associated scientists. They have been repeatedly denied the data. The emails clearly show this is deliberate and done to hide the data manipulation the CRU has done to show man-caused warming. Exposing the fraud is important because the group of researchers at CRU is heavily involved in the U.N. IPPC and has been considered the “authoritative source” for policies and procedures currently under development with the United Nations, Great Britain, the United States and other countries.

Scientists Forged Climate Research to Create Warming Hoax. In Flanders Fields, November 20-27. "The general picture of the series of emails is one of conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, manipulation of data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, and organized resistance to disclosure." Note: Read for yourself. A to-date list of all the damning emails in the authors' original emails can be found at Bishops Media.

Global Warming Accelerates; Climategate Rumbles On. Reuters Blogs, November 25, 2009. Note: The article presents a reasonably balanced discussion of the recent hacked emails (now called climategate), and a new report authored by 26 scientists, some of whom are directly involved in climategate. The report is based on fear; the polar icecap is melting and ocean levels are rising. Neither of these are true, but they make for good fear mongering of the type implied in the hacked emails.

Lawmakers Probe Climate Emails. Wall Street Journal, November 24, 2009. Congressional Republicans have started investigating climate scientists whose hacked emails suggest they tried to squelch dissenting views about global warming. They are focusing on John Holdren, science advisor to Obama and one of the correspondents, and any set of conclusions that have been made suspect by the revelations that have been used by the EPA and others in their policy recommendations. Note: This exposure seems to be gaining traction. Their are numerous calls for the head of the CRU, Phil Jones to resign..

E-Mail Leak Turns Up Heat on Global Warming Advocates. Boston Globe, November 21, 2009. Must Read "In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned British institute that show researchers colluding to exaggerate warming and undermine skeptics. Note: there are dozens of articles on this story around the world today.

Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute. New York Times, November 20, 2009. Several scientists and others contacted by The New York Times confirmed that they were the authors or recipients of specific e-mail messages included in the file. Note: It is impressive that the scientists writing the damning emails admitted that they did. While guilty of a conspiracy to manipulate data and public opinion, they at least admit to their deliberate distortions.

Hacked emails Reveal Massive Global Warming Fraud. WorldNetDaily, November 20, 2009. Must Read Emails and documents hacked from the University of East Angelica's Climate Research Unit show a systematic pattern of deliberately manipulating data to show man-caused global warming. They also had a plan to discredit skeptics who disagreed with the man-caused hypothesis. This is the same institution we reported last September 23rd who keeps all of the global climate records and deliberately deleted the raw data so no one could verify their results. Note: This is huge. It discredits most of the global warming research done in the past 25 years!

Some Scientists 'Baffled' by Lack of Global Warming. The Dakota Voice, November 19, 2009. "It’s no wonder the number of people who believe the man-caused global warming hypothesis has been dwindling. As people begin to push themselves away from the table of media pop-culture pap and start to learn a little about the issue, they quickly realize the whole ball of hysteria just doesn’t pass the smell test of credibility."

Senator Inhofe Declares Victory in Speech on Global Warming. Tulsa News, November 19, 2009.  “I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard... Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’

Clean Energy is Pure Fantasy. Personal Liberty Digest, November 18, 2009. Physicist Howard Hayden at the University of Connecticut sums up the fallacy of clean energy: “Imagine a one-mile swath of wind turbines extending from San Francisco to Los Angeles. That land area would be required to produce as much power around the clock as one large coal, natural gas, or nuclear power station that normally occupies about one square kilometer.” Solar energy isn't any better. It can cost 10 to 20 times more than electricity produced by coal.

Climate Change Sounds Much Sweeter. Examiner.com, November 17, 2009. Cap and trade is something that will have astronomical economic repercussions; and beyond that, all that most people probably know about what it is as well as its implications is that it has an obscure connection to President Obama's administration's 'green initiative'. Note: in other words, ignorance about this issue reigns supreme. You can also participate in a vote in this article.

Global Warming; Elusive, Economically Problematic for American Taxpayers. The DePauw, November 17, 2009. When the earth started cooling ten years ago, alarmists rebranded global warming into "climate change." "Armed with inconclusive evidence, incorrect climate models and a movie starring Al Gore, eco-groups embarked on a new crusade: to convince the world that Earth's cooling was only temporary and would eventually lead to greater warming in the future if immediate 'action' was not taken."

Asian Cold Water on Global Warming. Investor's Business Daily, November 16, 2009. "If there's good news from Saturday's APEC summit, it's Asia's ninja blow to a global climate pact in Copenhagen. The dynamic region recognized the economy-killer for what it was and refused to commit suicide."

What Dose Delaying Climate Change Agreement Mean? LA Times, November 16, 2009. "The House has already passed a climate bill. Scaled-back action in Copenhagen could help push a Senate bill over the top by securing pledges for emissions reductions from China and India, and thereby reassuring moderate Rust Belt Democrats." Be alert!

World Leaders Will Delay Climate Change Agreement. New York Times, November 14, 2009. President Obama and other world leaders have decided to postpone a climate change agreement at Copenhagen, agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific “politically binding” agreement that would punt the most difficult issues into the future. Note: this is great news, but watch out for the substitute.

Global Warming Is Not Our Fault, Say Most Britons. London Times, November 14, 2009. Only 41 per cent of Britons accept as an established scientific fact that global warming is taking place and is largely man-made. Almost a third (32 per cent) believe that the link is not yet proved; 8 per cent say that it is environmentalist propaganda to blame man and 15 per cent say that the world is not warming. Note: this is about the same breakdown with American polls.

Global Warming Skeptic Tells Group That Cure Is Worse Than Problem. Huntsville Times, November 11, 2009. Dr. John Christy, one of the leading atmospheric physicists in the world and, along with Dr. Roy Spencer, developed the satellite sensor array for earth's temperatures, provides an easy to understand reason why science doesn't support global warming alarms. Even if it did, he said, "current proposals to fix things won't work and might make life worse."

Don't Buy Those Carbon Credits Just Yet. Washington Examiner, November 10, 2009. Both the House and Senate cap and trade bills have provisions giving the president sweeping powers to do whatever necessary to stop CO2 emissions if the atmospheric levels climb above 450 ppm. While the current average today is about 385 ppm, it could peak above 450 next year.

Australian Prime Minister Goes Hysterical Over Global Warming. New American, November 9, 2009.  According to PM Rudd, opponents of the UN climate change treaty are "Provoking fear campaigns in every country they can; blocking or delaying domestic legislation in every country they can; with the objective of slowing and if possible destroying the momentum towards a global deal on climate change." Provoking fear? The only ones provoking fear are Rudd, Gore, the UN and their ilk.

Coalition MPs Deny Man-made Climate Change. ABC News, November 9, 2009. The Australian Senate already voted down Australia's cap and trade legislation last August. After the tirade of Prime Minister Rudd on August 6 where he accused the Senate of holding the world ransom, the Senate again affirmed that most of the Senate liberals do not believe man is causing global warming.

All Hope is Lost for Copenhagen Climate Treaty.  London Times, November 6, 2009. A full agreement at Copenhagen next month will be DOA. The full agreement will not be ready for at least a year, say officials. The best that can be hoped for is for non-binding agreements on emission cuts and payments to poor countries. All evidence supports this conclusion, but be on guard for a "last minute" breakthrough that opens the door to global governance.

Red-faced Times Abandons Fishy Eco Ad. The London Register, November 6, 2009. The London Times refused to run an eco-ad claiming the oceans would be fishless by 2049. This is the second time in a month that a major news outlet has challenged an eco-disaster story. In the past the main stream media has heralded all kinds of eco-disaster stories without checking the facts. The first rebuke happened a month ago when the BBC published an article on global warming, actually admitting there was hard evidence man was not causing it.

Kilimanjaro Ice Melt Is Not Global Warming. Examiner.com, November 4, 2009. The retreating snows of Kilimanjaro has long been the poster child proving man-caused global warming. It turns out that lack of precipitation for centuries has been slowly eroding the snow and ice cover as the ice sublimates (evaporates). There is very little evidence that any of the ice retreat was due to melting.

US Puts Climate Debate on Hold. Guardian, November 3, 2009. Harry Reid gave the US a breather by announcing any consideration of the cap and trade bill in the Senate will be postponed for 5 weeks after German Chancellor Angela Merkel admonished the Senate to pass it before the Copenhagen meeting next month. While this also seems to put the final nail in the Copenhagen coffin, be alert. Something seems to be brewing behind closed doors.

Consensus Is A Fake. Climate Depot, October 29, 2009. A letter signed by 160 distinguished Physicists of the American Physical Society was sent to the US Senate strongly asserting the "claim of consensus is fake, designed to stampede you into actions that will cripple our economy, and which you will regret for many years. There is no consensus." Remember, only 4 scientists within the 2007 IPCC process actually agreed with the so-called consensus document.

EU Strikes Climate Funding Deal. BBC. October 30, 2009. The EU agreed to give third world nations €100 billion a year to help them reduce their carbon emissions. It's a long ways from being a done deal, however. So far it is totally voluntary, which means if any of the EU members cough up anything at all, it will not be much. On the other hand it is sufficient to demand the US put up nearly $150. It is still doubtful it will be sufficient to get China and India to sign Copenhagen.

Europe Puts Figure on Green Aid to Push Climate Change Deal. The Guardian. Europe seems ready to put up €100 billion to assist third world nations conform to the new Copenhagen agreement. Europe demands the US do the same which would convert into nearly $150 billion. Lord Monkton was apparently right; a last minute deal seems to be underway to ensure acceptance of the new Copenhagen agreement and the institution of global governance.

Hot Air Rising. Boston Herald, October 4, 2009. The Herald's editorial staff exposes the fallacies of the new Boxer/Kerry "821-page aggregation of environmentalist dreams, rhetoric and directives..." found in their cap and trade scheme. They note that the bill "never specifies how initial emission rights are to be distributed, unlike the House bill that doles them out as favors to get votes for passage. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the kind of corruption that will plague any cap and trade scheme that might pass.

A New Scientific Scandal. The Register, October 2, 2009. The now obvious data manipulation that created the IPCC's Hockey Stick Curve is reaching the stage of a scandal in the scientific community. It puts into serious doubt a number of other peer-reviewed papers used by the IPCC. "The scandal has serious implications for public trust in science. The IPCC's mission is to reflect the science, not create it....When the IPCC was alerted to peer-reviewed research that refuted the idea, it declined to include it." Those who understand the IPCC process fully understand it is a fraud promoting a political agenda, not science.

Defects in Key Climate Data Uncovered. Financial Post, October 1, 2009. Dr. Ross McKitrick explains the history of the Hockey Stick graph and what it means. Concludes McKitrick: "I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent. The surface temperature data is a contaminated mess with a significant warm bias, and as I have detailed elsewhere the IPCC fabricated evidence in its 2007 report to cover up the problem. Climate models are in gross disagreement with observations, and the discrepancy is growing with each passing year. The often-hyped claim that the modern climate has departed from natural variability depended on flawed statistical methods and low-quality data. The IPCC review process, of which I was a member last time, is nothing at all like what the public has been told: Conflicts of interest are endemic, critical evidence is systematically ignored and there are no effective checks and balances against bias or distortion."

Flawed Intelligence Guides the Obama Energy Plan. Washington Examiner, September 23, 2009. "...we have about 1 trillion barrels of recoverable oil shale, or about as much as the entire world’s known reserves. But [Interior Secretary] Salazar has stopped previously planned commercial leasing on government lands." Despite all the Congressional rhetoric about becoming energy independent, the White House and Congress are doing all they can to lock up cheap energy sources to force US citizens to depend on foreign supplies and extremely expensive renewable energy.

The Dog Ate Global Warming. nationalreviewonline.com, September 23, 2009. A MUST READ. We reported on August 13, 2009 that the British agency that stores all the original global temperature data supposedly lost that original data. It was speculated that the agency made this claim to keep climate skeptics from getting the data to analyze it. Patrick Michaels blows the lid off of this scam in this article. So what's the big deal? It now looks like the Senate will not consider the cap and trade bill this year (good), which will allow president Obama to authorize the EPA to issue a series of draconian regulations far worse than any cap and trade legislation (which is very, very bad). The already written EPA regulations are required by a Supreme Court ruling. In turn, the Court decision was based on the potentially corrupted temperature data, for which the original data no longer exists to challenge the decision. Very neat and tidy. Are we being blindsided?

The Role of the Sun

Several major scientific articles have come out in the past few days describing the importance of the sun in earth's climate. In total they further reinforce the sun/earth's climate relationship.

When the Sun Goes Quiet Earth Shivers. The Sydney Morning Herald, September 13, 2009. The number of sunspots - dark and intensely magnetic blotches on the sun's surface - are at their lowest since 1913. During the past millennium, whenever the sun experienced long periods of low sunspot numbers, Earth had equally long, cold snaps. Crop failures, famine and pestilence follows.

Svensmark: Global Warming Stopped and a Cooling is Beginning. Jyllands-Posten, September 12, 2009. “It is likely that the current year’s number of blank days will be the longest in about 100 years.” Everything indicates that the Sun is going into some kind of hibernation, and the obvious question is what significance that has for us on Earth." No climate model has predicted this. Sevensmark is the Danish Physicist who discovered the cosmic ray/solar wind relationship. Well worth reading.

The Global Food Crisis Revisited. MarketOracle.co.uk, September 12, 2009. Historical trends in the Midwest indicate a severe drought occurs every 20 years or so (tree rings indicate this cycle has persisted for 600 years) – and it has been roughly 20 years since the last major drought. Some meteorologist also suggest a correlation between the sunspot cycle, the sun’s energy that reaches the earth, and long term weather trends – claiming the lack of sunspots can cause global cooling.

Atmospheric Solar Heat Amplifier Discovered. The Resilient Earth, September 11, 2009. "For decades, the supporters of CO₂ driven global warming have discounted changes in solar irradiance as far too small to cause significant climate change.... A new study in Science demonstrates how two previously known mechanisms acting together amplify the Sun's impact in an unsuspected way."

Scientists Discover Surprise in Earth's Upper Atmosphere. UCLA News, September 9, 2009. "UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere."

Are sunspots Disappearing? Astrobiology Magazine, September 8, 2009. "Solar activity can have a profound effect on the Earth's climate and biosphere. For instance, some studies indicate that sunspot activity could be linked to weather patterns on Earth. Understanding the behavior of the sun can help scientists determine what effects the solar cycle will have on Earth in the years to come"

The War Between Developed and Undeveloped Nations Heating Up

Europe Tamps Down Expectations on Climate Funds. New York Times, September 10, 2009. The EU says it will not give financial support to Third world Nations Unless they commit to serious CO2 reductions. On the other hand, many of them said they would not hurt their economies. Right now, it is a standoff.

Sarkozy Calls for Carbon Tax on Imports. Financial Times, September 10, 2009. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, vows to impose severe taxes (tariffs) on imports from countries that do not have valid climate legislations.

US Warns Climate Funding for Poor Nations "Wildly Unrealistic". Reuters, September 10, 2009. The US says funding for poor nations is "wildly unrealistic". At the same time the US delegation is saying the US must pass climate legislation this fall, even in the face of economic suicide if China and India do not join a climate pact.

India May Need $1 Trillion to Slow Emissions. Bloomberg, September 10, 2009. India may need to spend up to 1.1 trillion over the next 20 years to slow emissions of CO2; something it will not do.

There were many other articles like this. The Copenhagen meeting, once billed as the most important in the history of the world, will be a failure. The First World Nations are developing the message that is the Third World Nations fault; while the Third World Nations are going to be accusing the First World Nations. Everyone goes home guiltless, and since nothing will happen, the world is saved once again.

A Different Take on Global Warming. SeacoastOnline.com, September 8, 2009. More and more "experts" are now refuting the man-caused warming theory. "No amount of "carbon management" and associated "green" efforts will stop the Arctic ice from melting." So why are we about to pass legislation that will cost the US trillions of dollars and each family up to $5,000 a year by 2030?

Global Warming Theory Received Coolly. LJWorld.com, September 7, 2009. Researcher claims the Danish cosmic radiation/solar activity/temperature theory is correct. Cosmic radiation causes ionization in the lower earth's atmosphere, which in turn causes more low cloud formation, more solar reflection (albedo), and cooling oceans. An active sun produces solar winds which dampen the cosmic rays, hence less cloud formation and more solar radiation warming the oceans. Thirty-four years later the ocean currents shift (The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)) and the earth's climate shifts. The PDO/AMO effect on earth's climate is highly correlated. Trouble is, almost no research money is put into this research while billions goes into CO2 research, which admittedly has a very poor correlation to climate. Of course, CO2 research scientists loudly criticize this research.

Africa Threatens Copenhagen Walkout Over Climate Reparations. Daily Nation, September 3, 2009. Africa has drawn a line in the sand; pay $400 billion annually or they walk out of the Copenhagen talks. Of course, the developed nations will refuse (or had better refuse), which will gut the talks resulting in hot air and meaningless commitments. The world is saved once again.

Poor Nations need 'Wartime' Support Against Climate Change Says UN. AFP, September 1, 2009. The UN claims developed nations (i.e. the US) must give $600 billion a year to developing nations to cover their costs of curbing CO2 emissions.

China's High Price for Cuts in Emissions. Financial Times, September 3, 2009. China claims that it will cost $438 billion a year to curb CO2 emissions.

These two articles set the playing field for the upcoming Copenhagen agreements in December. These statements are obviously grandstanding, but according to independent analyses, not by much. Meanwhile, the US has its head in the clouds and claims that it will not cost US citizens more than a hundred dollars a year per family. That doesn't even pass the smell test. Independent analyses clearly show that it will cost $4000 to $5000 per family by 2030. That's trillions of dollars for the entire country. As long as the US and Europe continue to claim global warming is a global disaster, economic ruin awaits everyone, further antagonizing the developing nations. It is time to tell the US Senate man is NOT causing global warming and to NOT PASS THE CAP AND TRADE LEGISLATION.

Oil Refiners: Cap and Trade will Cost. Philadelphia Enquirer, August 27, 2009. The American Petroleum Institute released a study that clearly showed that refinery output would decline by 17 percent with the House cap and trade bill by 2030 -- further increasing oil imports and our dependence on foreign oil. Although the refinery industry only emits 4 percent of the CO2 emissions, the legislation holds them responsible for 44 percent of the nation's emissions. This type of political gamesmanship is also common in Europe and shows how the entire process is corrupted. Friends get a pass that is born by those not favored.

Carbon Baron Gore. Financial Post, August 26, 2009. Al Gore has pushed hard to force global warming legislation down our throats. Why? Because global warming hysteria has been profitable for him. Very profitable. His net worth has gone from $2 million to well over $100 million in the 9 years since leaving politics. Many expect him to become a billionaire if the cap and trade legislation is passed into law through a number of investments that depend on that legislation being passed. What has this to do with saving the planet? Nothing. It's all about money. That's true with just about everyone promoting cap and trade legislation.

Could Australia Blow Apart the Great Global Warming Scare? Real Clear Politics, June 24, 2009. This is a bit old, but it explains the dynamics of the complete reversal of climate thinking that led to the defeat of Australia's cap and trade bill in the Australian Senate. We are seeing evidence the same thing is happening in the United States and is the main reason we have created the www.nocapandtrade.us website and YouTube videos. This article is well worth the read.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Seeks Trial on Global Warming. Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2009. In an unique effort to publicly expose the man-caused global warming theory is a fraud, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is considering suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) if it declares CO2 a pollutant that threatens humans. The threat from EPA could come as a result of its proposed ruling last April which would require the EPA to regulate CO2 emissions from small business up. It would be far worse than the U.S. House of Representatives cap and trade legislation passed last June. If the Chamber can do it, they will win hands down because the overwhelming scientific evidence is that man cannot be causing global warming. The EPA says the lawsuit would be "frivolous" and a "waste of time."

EPA's Greenhouse Gas Ruling Defies Economic Warming. Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2009. As the EPA's ruling of endangerment by CO2 readies for public release, other federal agencies warn the ruling was "likely to have serious economic consequences" for small businesses and the economy. That is an understatement. The ruling would affect almost every product and activity by humans in the United States. In spite of the overwhelming evidence that man cannot be causing global warming, the EPA's proposed ruling concludes that the evidence in support of its finding was "compelling and, indeed, overwhelming..."

Africa Wants $67 Billion a Year in Global Warming Funds. Reuters August 24, 2008. Africa will demand $67 billion a year from the US and Europe to sign on to the Copenhagen agreement in December. While the demand is down from the $100 billion before, it still represents a huge amount. Obama has said in his campaign that he supports such payoffs. However, it is doubtful it will ever happen.

Drop in World Temperatures Fuels Global Warming Debate. McClatchy News, August 19, 2009. Global temperatures have dropped by 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit since they peaked in 1998 fueling the skeptics belief that natural variability causes climate change. However, very few scientists, including the skeptics, believe the cooling to be long lasting. Most believe it may last another decade or two, and then the warming will resume. Why? Because the solar/ocean oscillations will reverse themselves again and the general warming since the Little Ice Age ending in 1850 will resume. The July warming caused by the formation of El Nino is an example of how powerful these natural forces are.

Australian Senate Votes Cap and Trade Legislation Down. ABC News, August 13, 2009. As Expected, the Australian Senate voted down a cap and trade scheme similar to that being proposed in the US. The "shoe-in" legislation was suddenly reversed last June when a key Australian Senator attended an international conference sponsored by the Heartland Institute and cosponsored by Sovereignty International that the overwhelming evidence showed that man was not responsible for global warming.

Greenpeace's Director Busted for Lying About Global warming. Business Insider Greensheet, August 21, 2009. Greenpeace's executive director, Gerd Leipold, was busted by the BBC's Stephen Sackur for lying about the effects of global warming. He claimed that the arctic icecaps would melt by 2030. He now admits that claim is false, it is now growing again, but claimed Greenpeace has to "emotionalize issues, and we're not ashamed" of it. That's the same thing Dr. Stephen Snyder said a number of years ago that scientists must do to make people believe their alarmist message. That's why we are now building policy around lies. Finally, the BBC called a spade a spade.

It's Time to Drop the Alarmism and Get Real About Climate Change. Whig Standard Opinion. August 17, 2009. "Success" in Copenhagen won't be defined by lowering greenhouse-gas emissions. It will be defined by whether the developed world -- including Canada -- bribes the developing world -- led by China and India -- with sufficient billions of our money, to purportedly reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions emissions, so that participants emerge declaring that a deal to "save the planet" has been reached. But it won't lower emissions. All it will do is make the world safer for hedge fund managers and energy companies as they rake in undeserved profits in the global "cap and trade" market about to be unleashed on us all.

The Crisis of Germany’s Green Energy Policy. Zeit Online, August 13, 2009. Germany has installed €40 billion ($56 billion) worth of solar panels. Yet, that has produced less than 1 percent of their energy consumption needs. By 2013 the cost will grow to €77 billion ($108 billion)! The inefficiency of this program should be a warning to the United States. Germany's population  is 83 billion while that of the U.S. is 307 million, or 3.7 times greater. Since the U.S. cap and trade legislation mandates that a minimum of 15 percent of our electricity be renewable by 2015 from the 4.2 percent today, and solar accounts for less than 1 percent, or a total of 4 percent by 2015. Germany spent $108 billion achieving 0.3 percent for only 83 million people. To achieve 4 percent by 2015 for a population of 307 million would cost $1.6 trillion -- and that does not include the cost of wind power! All analyses have projected a much lower cost, but Germany's actual cost suggests these projections are too low.

Bonn Climate Talks 'augur badly' for Copenhagen Summit. EurActiv.com, August 18, 2009. In December of this year there will be a major meeting in Copenhagen to hammer out a new treaty to replace the failed and expiring Kyoto Protocol. The August 10-14 meeting in Bonn, Germany to write this new treaty met with resistance and very little progress was made. China and India, which will be the largest emitters of CO2 in the future still refuse to sign this new treaty. In total, it is very doubtful that a new treaty will be forthcoming at the Copenhagen Summit -- and the entire world will be much better off because of its failure!

EU R&D Efforts Hampered by 'Eco-Religion.' EurActiv.com, July 31, 2009. One of the driving forces behind the environmental movement is pantheism, or the belief that nature is god and must be protected at all costs. In such a belief system, human needs are of secondary importance. This belief is entrenched in both the U.S. and Europe, but much more widespread in Europe. Central to this belief is the Precautionary Principle which states that humans must not do anything that might cause damage to the environment. Therefore, all possible negative consequences must first be researched and found innocent before any product or technology can be introduced. Since it is impossible to prove that a negative will never happen, progress slowly grinds to a halt. The entire global warming hypothesis is based on this. This philosophy is now causing serious harm to Europe. Nonetheless, politicians love it because it gives them something to hide behind.

Climate Change Measure Should Be Set Aside, U.S. Senators Say. Bloomberg, August 14, 2009. Four Democrats in the U.S. Senate say that the cap and trade legislation should be delayed for a year because of all the other legislation that has been passed or is being considered. In other words, it is too much and the people are starting to rebel. While Senator Reed is still likely to bring it to the floor this year, more and more Senators are realizing that it is likely to cause a backlash among their constituencies. Especially when there is no science to back up the need for the legislation.

Global Warming Alarmists 'Lost' Data and Skew Results. Examiner.com, August 13, 2009. The British Agency that holds and analyzes all the ground temperature stations in the world has only allowed access to their data by scientists who support the man-caused warming hypothesis. Those scientists who disagree have never been allowed to have the raw data. After several key scientists requested the raw data using Freedom Of Information Request, the agency suddenly claimed that the data was 'lost,' and the only data that was available was 'messaged' data. This stinks no matter what the truth really is. It gives every indication that the data has been messaged to provide a pre-determined outcome. This is just another of a rapidly growing list of suspected data manipulation cases where in studies that seems to support man-caused warming.

Desperation Time: NYT Promotes 'National Security' Climate Fears. NYT, August 9, 2009. In an apparent desperate attempt to keep the man-caused global warming fear alive the New York Times and warming alarmists are now trying to make stopping global warming a national security issue. The overwhelming peer-reviewed science, an increasingly vocal backlash from the scientific community (including many IPCC scientists), and cooling global temperatures is causing the entire man-caused global warming theory to collapse. The heart of the “national security” argument is merely a redux of the 1970's laughable scares about famines and resource scarcity.

Scientists Mull Quiet '09 Hurricane Season. Metro International, August 10, 2009. Here’s an inconvenient truth: This year’s hurricane season has gotten off to the slowest start in 17 years. And yet global warming alarmists continue to ring their doomsday sirens. It is ironic that while the alarmists are saying that one year (2009) does not mean that there will be more and stronger hurricanes, the same alarmists claimed that the active year of 2005 was proof that man-caused global warming causes more and stronger hurricanes. There is near unanimous agreement with real hurricane scientists that there is no correlation between global warming and hurricanes.

Peer-Reviewed Study Rocks Climate Debate! Climate Depot, July 29, 2009. This research study adds even more strong evidence that man cannot be causing global warming. Various studies have shown that the sun, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the Atlantic Pacific Multi-decadal Oscillation and now the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) individually account for 70 to 80 percent of the earth's climate variability while CO2 accounts for only 44 percent. (These oscillations are massive changes in the ocean surface temperatures; like El Nino except bigger and longer in duration). Preliminary work combining the various oscillations push the correlation to nearly 90 percent). Attempts to discredit this research have failed.

Consensus' Takes Another Hit! More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims! Climate Depot, August 4, 2009. More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an Open Letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. They called the fear of global warming a 'pseudo' religion and want Chancellor Merkel to stop the implementation of harsh regulations that are hurting the German economy.

Global Warming and the Poor. Wall Street Journal, 8-4-09. Between India and China there are nearly 1.3 billion people who live on less than $2 a day. There is no hope for them if these nations cannot increase their use of energy. Hence, both nations refuse to sign on to a global warming protocol that will stop them from providing that energy to their poor. The same is true for other impoverished nations as well. It is ludicrous to think they would further impoverish their people by signing onto a climate policy developed by the first world.

Ocean Temperatures: The New Bluff in Climate Alarmism. Science & Public Policy Institute, 7-21-09. The report summarizes hard research on how earth's air and ocean temperatures have fallen during the twenty-first century, when the climate alarmists are claiming just the opposite. The Summary for Policymakers tells volumes for a quick read, but the entire report is worth it for those who want to get into the nitty-gritty.

Climate Fixers' Hard Sell. Washington Post, 7-23-09. George Will defines the absurdity of all the machinations to pass a climate treaty in the face of undeniable evidence that man cannot be causing global warming. The Chinese and Indians have figured it out and refuse to sacrifice their economies on the alter of global warming.

Why Poor Countries Won't Curb Emissions. Forbes.com. 7-15-09. Poor countries like India use 15 times less energy that the average US citizen. Increasing per capita use of energy (i.e. carbon emissions) is the only way these nations can raise their per capita standard of living from squalor to what we in the US would consider poor. It is therefore a no brainer that they would refuse to sign on to something that would keep them in abject poverty.

Scientists Can Explain Only Half of Global Warming. The Hindu. 7-15-09. "There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models," so claims a new peer-reviewed study. The study explodes Al Gore's depiction of CO2 controlling past temperature, and throws into serious doubt the role CO2 played in the twentieth century.

The rise of the carbon oligarchs. Washington Times, 7-12-09. As the globe cools, Washington heats up by passing cap and trade the opens the door wide open to corruption with those with friends in high places get special treatment and those that don't find themselves out of business.

Senate Won't Bow to Global Warming Propagandists, Hopefully. Portland Examiner. 7-11-09. In a growing backlash within the media, more and more news outlets are seeing the science of man-caused global warming for what it is--a fraud--and cap and trade is a fast track to serfdom. They are also hoping that the Senate will not be so easy to fool as was the House. 

Cap and Trade - Illusion of New Green Economy. Right Side News. 7-12-09. Dr. Spencer is one of only a few leading climate scientists in the world. He has been the driving force behind the global microwave satellite system. He provides a very good insight into the folly of cap and trade using phantom green technology. Worth the read.

UN IPCC Scientists Say Global Warming Big Deception. Right Side News. 7-10-09. A dozen internationally respected scientists tell us why CO2 is not a pollutant, is absolutely necessary for life on earth and that it is not responsible for global warming.

G8 Stalemate Shows It's Time for Climate Cool-down. Financial Post. 7-10-09. All the flowery congratulations of setting carbon goals at the G8 are meaningless. There is wide disagreement even between first world nations on what should be done and when it should be done. But China, India and now Russia are adamantly dead set against any carbon reductions which makes anything the first world nations do meaningless.

All Sides Need Voices in Global Warming Debate. Detroit News. 7-10-09. This is not news, but an excellent column about how the truth about global warming is being deliberately shut out. He notes, for instance, how the EPA covered up an internal report detailing how man cannot be causing global warming, and that the 2008 global temperature was the same as that in 1910 and that we are in global cooling, not global warming.

House Bill Introduced  Denying Funding For IPCC. Press Release 7-8-09. Although the Democrats will certainly squash the effort, Representative Luetkemeyer (R-MO) introduced legislation to cut off funding for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change because of the politicization of science to arrive at a predetermined conclusion. He noted over 700 leading international scientists have now abandoned the man-caused theory compared to 56 scientists who wrote the IPCC's 2007 report.

Russia Rejects G8 Emissions Cut Target. Rianovosti. 8-9-09. Russia flat-out rejected the G8's recommendation for carbon emission cuts. The rejection by Russia, along with the rejection by China, India, and many other developing nations, appears to be a coordinated effort to undercut President Obama's glowing proclamation of success. Obama chaired the session and had a lot of his prestige on the line.

G-8 and Developing Nations Differ Over Emissions Cuts. Wall Street Journal. 7-8-09. As expected, the Group of Eight, meeting in Italy, trumpeted an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2050. However, it is meaningless because they did not set intermediate goals nor did they agree on how to much money to give to developing nations.  Without tackling these issues, the agreement is nothing more than hot air.

Senator's Testimony Insists Nuclear Energy is Only Viable Option. The Chattanoogan. 7-7-09. Senator Lamar Alexander told administration officials the only cost effective way to reduce our carbon emissions is to build nuclear power plants, not costly and inefficient wind and solar farms. Note: France has produced 80 percent of its electricity by nuclear for decades without any problems; environmental or human health.

Green-industrial complex gets rich from carbon laws. The Australian, 7-3-09. *Outstanding Article. There is a very dangerous green public-private partnership developing between international companies, governments, eco-groups and powerful individuals like Gore, who profit tremendously at a terrible cost to the masses.

Due Diligence on Australia's Environmental Minister Wong's answer to Senator Fielding's challenge on global warming.  July 3, 2009. Just as Congress passed HR 2454 cap and trade legislation, we reported that Australia was canning their legislation. Australia's Senator Fielding asked Environment Minister Wong to justify the need for their draconian cap and trade legislation. Wong replied with the discredited IPCC dogma, and four of Australia's leading climate scientists took Wong's response apart. exposing the IPCC's science for the fraud it is. For all practical purposes, cap and trade in Australia is dead.

China blasts US climate bill enabling penalties on trade partners  Space Daily 7-2-09. China has long opposed a new climate treaty which would harm their growing economy. China has set up impossible conditions for the US to meet before they would even consider a new treaty, believing that the US could never implement them. That would allow them to save face by not having to bluntly say no to the world community. However, now that Congress has passed HR 2454 cap and trade legislation that mandates that the US impose a huge tariff on nations not having their own economic suicide legislation, China's China's bluff has been called and they are not happy.

UN, WTO call for trade shift to halt climate change.  EurActive 7-2-09. The World Trade Organization, which can impose penalties on nations for imposing tariffs, is strongly leaning towards allowing tariffs on products coming from countries not having economy-killing cap and trade , or similar legislation. This will devastate poverty-stricken third world nations and prevent them from ever getting out of poverty. It is called Economic Imperialism.

Stop scaring kids about global warming Detroit News 7-1-09. Bjorn Lomborg, whose book the Skeptical Environmentalist, rocked the environmental world by exposing the pseudoscience behind most environmental scare stories, makes the case against scaring young kids. Although Lomborg still believes in man-caused global warming, he warns that fully 1/3 of all pre-teenagers in the US believe their is no future for them because of global warming. "This is grossly harmful," he claims.

Global Warming Produced the Inca Empire. Living Peru, 7-1-09. 
A new study has revealed the the Inca civilization, larger than the Ming Dynasty in China and the Ottoman Empire, was probably precipitated during a warming period in which global temperatures were about a degree and a half higher than today. In fact, many studies show that civilizations have advanced when there is global warming, and die out when there is prolonged global cooling.

Internationally Known Scientists Write Letter to President Obama, 'You Have Been Deceived About Global Warming, The Earth Has Been Cooling for Ten Years.  Climate Depot 7-1-09. Seven highly credentialed scientists wrote a letter to President Obama highlighting how he is being deceived by false information about man-caused global warming.

India Rejects Any Greenhouse-Gas Cuts Under New Climate Treaty Bloomberg 6-30-09. China and India have balked at a new climate treaty expected in December at Copenhagen for months. Now India has formerly rejected it. Look for more third world nations to follow suit. Such a treaty would condemn these nations to perpetual poverty.

Obama Wary of Tariff Provision. Wall Street Journal. In a last minute inclusion, House democratic leaders inserted a provision for heavy tariffs to be imposed on products imported from countries not having their own cap and trade regulations. This was done  to level the playing field and prevent the flood of US industries moving offshore because of the huge energy costs resulting from H.R. 2454. Many are concerned the provision will precipitate a trade war.

Carbongate--EPA Suppresses It's Own Report Contradicting Their Political Position. Investors Business Daily. The scientific community is abuzz with this smoking gun that clearly shows the Obama EPA is suppressing evidence that man is not causing global warming -- written by EPA's own personnel. So much for transparency.

House Narrowly Passes Climate Bill Fox News. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the highly controversial American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Friday night, June 26. It represents the biggest tax hike in U.S. history by orders of magnitude and establishes a bureaucracy that the European experience is highly corruptible and economically damaging. It still has to go to the Senate, which should take it up this fall.

H.R. 2454--American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, A Summary.  GovTrack.us. A summary of the 1500 page H.R. 2454. Be prepared for a shock.

Australia Abandoning Its Own Cap and Trade Legislation. Wall Street Journal. The Australian Senate is  voting down the House's cap and trade legislation because the science is just not there. There is also a growing backlash in Europe where cap and trade legislation is severely hurting economies.

Green Jobs a Cost, Not Benefit, to the National Economy Study done by the Beacon Hill Institute, Boston. The study found major economic flaws in all the glowing projections of the benefits of creating green jobs. The study revealed that, in fact, creating green jobs will actually destroy far more existing jobs -- something that Europe and especially Spain are actually experiencing.

Carbon Dioxide, Infrared Radiation and the Forgotten Question Hawaii Reporter. This article provides one of the best explanations of why increasing atmospheric CO2 cannot physically cause more warming of the earth. In short, the long-wave irradiative bands at which CO2 absorbs radiation is already saturated. Therefore adding more CO2 cannot trap more heat any more than an overflowing sink cannot hold any more water.

Crops under stress as temperatures fall. London Telegraph. The extremely cold winters and springs the past two seasons have resulted in major crop failures and a global food crisis. Rather than global warming causing super storms and crop loses, as we are commonly told, it is global cooling that we need to worry about. As referenced in the DVD, massive famine was common during the Little Ice Age in the 1700-1800s in Europe. The same seems to be happening now that we are in a global cooling (not warming) cycle.

Big Oil Is Biggest Investor in Greenhouse Gas-Curbing Technologies New York Times. Big oil and utilities invested six and a half times more in research than did the federal government between 2000 and 2008. This is opposite what most people believe.

China doesn't give a stuff about global warming London Telegraph Blog. Blogger details why China is stringing along Europe and the US on a new Copenhagen Climate agreement to replace the failed Kyoto Protocol. They have no intention of supporting any agreement and would like to bankrupt the Western Nations for their stupidity. That is exactly what the Chinese delegation told me personally in private at COP 5 many years ago. MS Coffman, Ph.D.

Carbon Pollution Expected to Grow by 40 Percent. An analysis by the federal Energy Information Administration claims that global carbon emissions will increase by 40 percent 2030; 94 percent of this will come from the expanding economies of the developing nations. Of the 94 percent, two-thirds will be from China India, Russia and Brazil.

China Pans US Over Climate Demands. Prior to meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi China demands the US do much more to reduce emissions before China will sign on to any new agreement in Copenhagen this December. They were especially hard on President Obama calling his pledges "insufficient insufficient and his demands for developing countries are unrealistic." China wants the US to slash emissions by 40% by 2020 and give developing nations 1% ($150,000) a year, something the US cannot do. This rhetoric may be a negotiating tool, or it may be a way for China to save face while sabotaging the new climate agreement.

China Gets Tough on Climate Change Talks. Financial Times. China demands that rich countries (i.e. the US) reduce CO2 emissions by 40 % by 2020 and give 3rd World nations the equivalent of $150 billion per year to help them implement climate goals. Both are impossible. China is doing this so the failure of Copenhagen in December of 2009 is blamed on the US and not China.

The Missing Sunspots: Is This the Big Chill? The Independent. The sun has been amazingly quiet for nearly three years now – more quiet than in the collective memory of any scientist living today. Previous quiet periods have been accompanied by a cooling, even cold, climate leading a rapidly increasing number of scientists to abandon the CO2 man-caused warming theory and predict we are entering a new cooling cycle.

Wind power is a complete disaster Financial Post. In nations like Denmark and Germany that have led the way in tapping wind power to reduce carbon emissions have found it is extremely expensive and may be actually causing more carbon emissions than fossil fuels.

Computer Climate Models may be Using Wrong Ocean Circulation Assumptions. Drifting deep ocean temperature sensors have shown that the long held assumption of the Atlantic Conveyor Belt -- used in all climate models -- is not correct, introducing yet another error in climate models.

Senate blow to climate change laws Financial Times. Nearly two dozen democrats undermined Congressional leadership's efforts to ram through Obama's cap and trade legislation without debate.

Founder of Weather Channel Testimony in Congress. Dr. John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, testified before Congress that man is not causing global warming.

Chill winds take heat off global warming London Times is finally printing stories that man-caused warming may not be happening after all.

U.N. Con on Global Warming Nearly Foiled  NewsMax. Americans beginning to realize that the UN's global warming agenda is false.

31,000 scientists sign petition claiming that that there is no scientific justification for man causing global warming Over 9,000 of these signers are Ph.D.s, showing claim that there is scientific consensus is blatantly false!

Is the Sky Really Falling? Pat Michaels First published by the Cato Institute

Scientists Overwhelmingly Disclaim Role of CO₂ in Global Warming   A report on the 2008 International Convention on Climate Change held in New York City

Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate Summary for Policy Makers written by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. Released at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson, and Willie Soon. A summary of the state of science clearly showing global warming has been the result of natural processes, not man emitted carbon dioxide.

The Global Warming Fraud  Michael Coffman

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth – One sided, Misleading, Exaggerated, Speculative, Wrong Marlo Lewis, Jr. summarizes the errors and distortions of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

Antarctic Temperature and Sea Ice Trends Over the Last Century George Taylor analyzes the Antarctic temperatures and finds a slight decline while sea ice is growing (it reached record size in 2007, after this report was published)

Misleading Reports about Antarctica Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo explains the false impression the media provide suggesting shrinking sea ice around Antarctica when in fact the sea ice extent is reaching record levels.

Variable Solar Irradiance Plausibly Explains Arctic Temperature Variations  Dr. Willie Soon demonstrates that the sun explains 75 percent of the temperature variation in the Arctic.