December 2009 Archives

By Pat Anderson

Minnesota's own job-killing energy legislation imposes higher energy prices on Minnesotans

In 2007 with the blessing of Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty and Democratic leadership and some bi-partisan support in the House and Senate, the Legislature passed the "Next Generation Energy Act" with fanfare about it being a bold investment in renewable power that would motivate energy conservation and decrease Minnesota's contribution to global warming. Noble-sounding ideas at the time, but as people tell me on the campaign trail the immediate consequence is a 20 percent rate increase in their utility bills for next year.

Duluth-based Minnesota Power, for example, is seeking a new rate increase before the end of 2009, citing, in part, the cost of increasing renewable-energy generation. Under the Next Generation Energy Act of 2007, utilities must generate a quarter of their energy from renewable resources by 2025.

It should be noted that not all Republican legislators succumbed to pressure from environmental groups and the governor's office to foist the Next Generation Energy Act on Minnesotans. Two of my opponents in this race showed political courage and did the right thing and voted against the conference committee report. In the House, Rep. Tom Emmer voted against the legislation, voting against House Minority Leader Mary Seifert, who helped engineer a large margin of victory for the DFL-sponsored bill (S.F.145). In the Senate, Sen. David Hann stood up and voted against the bill.

The Next Generation Energy Act set two overall energy goals for the state: (1) the per capita use of fossil fuel as an energy input be reduced by 15 percent by the year 2015, through increased reliance on energy efficiency and renewable energy alternatives; and (2) 25 percent of the total energy used in the state be derived from renewable energy resources by the year 2025. That's a lot of windmills and solar panels.

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By John Mariani, The Post-Standard

Two men look at the damage done to a windmill on Buyea Road in Fenner today, after it had toppled in the middle of the night. No one was injured, and nothing other than the windmill itself was damaged.

Fenner, NY -- Marvin DeKing already was up and awake between 3 and 4 a.m. when he heard a loud bang.

"It sounded like thunder and lightning," said DeKing, of 5206 Buyea Road in this rural town five miles northeast of Cazenovia. But it wasn't until daylight that DeKing learned what had caused the noise: The 187 ton windmill across the road from his house had fallen over and lay sprawled in the cornfield in which it had stood.

By Kenneth P. Green, Wall Street Journal

In the aftermath of the Copenhagen Climate conference, it is clear that the United Nations-driven process is a bust, and that any similar process requiring economic suicide and massive wealth transfers will go nowhere. It is long since time to drop this charade, take the question of climate change out of the hands of the U.N., and implement more reasonable policies.

Fostering the resilience of societies around the world in case climate disaster strikes would be a start. Central to this process is for governments to stop making things worse, as they do when they subsidize risk-taking.

One reason that predicted damages from rising sea-levels and more powerful storms are so high is because of the popularity of coastal locales for high-density business and upscale residential development. As a result, damages from extreme coastal weather events have been fantastically expensive. The damages from Hurricane Katrina for example, reached over $150 billion. The question, however, is why there was so much value that was so badly protected against completely predictable events? Why were levees and sea-walls so under-designed? Why were so many houses and businesses uninsured? As Charles Perrow observes in "The Next Catastrophe," "Even in areas known to be hazardous, only about 20% of homeowners purchase flood insurance, and less than 50% of businesses purchase flood and earthquake insurance in risky areas."

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By Elmer Beauregard

Even Before It Was Over The Globe Started To Cool

This might seem a little schizophrenic, seeings how just yesterday I said Copenhagn was a dismal failure, but then I started to see all the stories of all the developed nations getting hit with very unusually cold weather, so it seems it was a huge success. President Obama had to to leave the Conference early because of the blizzard that was hitting the east coast. Both England and even southern France are experiencing very cold weather.

By Elmer Beauregard

Type in Copenhagen Failure into Google News Search and you get 8,896 results. It seems like everything went against Copenhagen in the last couple of weeks.

God showed up big time and answered our prayers for a white Copenhagen. It's hard to talk about ending Global Warming when your freezing to death. Obama had to leave the conference early because of the blizzard hitting Washington D.C.

Then there was Climategate even though the media won't mention it and reporters weren't allowed to ask about it. Obama failed to acknowledge Climategate in his speech by saying, "it is science not fiction". Even still Climategate seems to be having an effect.

Steve Watson, Prisonplanet.com

"Institutional framework" paves the way for unelected international bureaucracy

Amid all the mainstream media reports of the talks in Copenhagen "limping" to a close and having failed, Lord Christopher Monckton, reporting from the summit, has stated that the only goal of the conference was to implement the framework and the funding for a world government - which he asserts has been achieved.

"That is the one thing that they are definitely going to succeed in doing here and they will announce that as a victory in itself, and they will be right because that is the one and only single aim of this entire global warming conference, to establish the mechanism, the structure, and above all the funding for a world government." the British politician, business consultant, policy adviser exclusively told the Alex Jones show yesterday.

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By the way that's not snow, that's the Constitution being shredded and thrown around like confetti.

Fellow Minnesotan Jesse Ventura Exposes Who Profits From The Climate Change Fraud On National Television

Synopsis here

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Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com

Obama set to bypass Congress and approve massive transfer of wealth to world government

The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to bypass Congress by approving a massive transfer of wealth from America into globalist hands.

As Lord Monckton, Alex Jones and others warned, the notion that the globalists would achieve nothing at Copenhagen has likely been a ruse all along. The elite look set to ram through the lion's share of their agenda, which would include a massive global government tax at a cost of at least $3,000 a year for American families already laboring under a devastating recession, double digit unemployment and a reduction in living standards.

Hillary Clinton arrived yesterday to rally global leaders around a resolution and Barack Obama is set to be portrayed as the savior of the world by rescuing what was pitched all along as a conference doomed to fail.

By Patrick J. Michaels, Wall Street Journal

The East Anglia emails are just the tip of the iceberg. I should know.

Few people understand the real significance of Climategate, the now-famous hacking of emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Most see the contents as demonstrating some arbitrary manipulating of various climate data sources in order to fit preconceived hypotheses (true), or as stonewalling and requesting colleagues to destroy emails to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the face of potential or actual Freedom of Information requests (also true).

But there's something much, much worse going on--a silencing of climate scientists, akin to filtering what goes in the bible, that will have consequences for public policy, including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent categorization of carbon dioxide as a "pollutant."

The bible I'm referring to, of course, is the refereed scientific literature. It's our canon, and it's all we have really had to go on in climate science (until the Internet has so rudely interrupted). When scientists make putative compendia of that literature, such as is done by the U.N. climate change panel every six years, the writers assume that the peer-reviewed literature is a true and unbiased sample of the state of climate science.

That can no longer be the case. The alliance of scientists at East Anglia, Penn State and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (in Boulder, Colo.) has done its best to bias it.

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Paul Joseph Watson, Prisonplanet.com

Cheerleaders for mass starvation and death aghast that someone dared question their belief system

I LOVE THIS GUY!!

By Will Stewart, Daily Mail

People clean the snow from a globe in Copenhagen before the start of today's round of negotiations

An explosive new claim that the Meteorological Office in Britain 'manipulated' climate change figures has come from a leading Russian think-tank founded by a former adviser to Vladimir Putin.

As the Copenhagen summit comes to a climax on Friday, it was alleged that Siberian weather statistics were selected in a way that masks evidence not showing global warming.

The think tank strongly disputes the use of data from the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Change which were released in a bid to diffuse the recent row over hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit in East Anglia.The emails were seized upon by global warming sceptics as evidence that academics were massaging the figures.

The Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) claimed the Hadley Centre used statistics from weather stations in Russian and Siberia that fitted its theory of global warming, while often ignoring those that did not.

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By Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters

Tony Hake, Examiner.com

As if on cue with former Vice President Al Gore's arrival in Copenhagen, the site of the United Nation's climate summit is expected to receive heavy snowfall and bitter cold temperatures. With a bit of amusement some have pointed to the arrival of the cold weather as an example of the 'Gore Effect'.

In recent years, the term 'Gore Effect' has come to take note of unseasonable weather that seems to accompany the Nobel Laureate or when a significant global warming event is held. Since 2004 these coincidences occur with uncanny frequency. Gore arrived in Copenhagen yesterday and caused a stir in his first public event by claiming that all Arctic sea ice could disappear within five years.

The Dutch Meteorological Institute's forecast for Wednesday calls for heavy snowfall with high temperatures of only 35 degrees (2 degrees Celsius). Temperatures will continue to drop Thursday and winds will be between 25 and 30 mph causing wind chill temperatures in the teens. Friday's high temperature is forecast to stay below freezing and overnight lows will drop all the way to 10 degrees (-12 Celsius).

In recent weeks as Gore started to make a number of media appearances related to the release of his new book "Our Choice" and the Copenhagen summit, much of the United States was plunged into unusually cold weather.

For complete details about the "Gore Effect" and a list of events in recent years when it seemed to occur, click here.

By Elmer Beauregard

I haven't heard of any "protesters" (payed workers) who are there on my behalf, that the whole thing is a made up farce to set up a World Government. So all I can do is pray that God will show up and show everyone who actually controls the weather and that he isn't a big fan of a World Government.

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By Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters

A group of journalists stood for many hours in near-freezing temperatures Monday waiting to get into the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Marvelously among them was Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein who regularly reports on the dire consequences of -- wait for it! -- global warming.

Ironically, his articles are so filled with inflammatory hyperbole concerning Nobel Laureate Al Gore's favorite bogeyman that scientists have denounced him.

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By Murray Wardrop, telegraph.co.uk

Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, has become embroiled in a climate change spin row after claiming that the Arctic could be completely ice-free within five years.

Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014.

However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims.

By Sara Palin, AJC.com

YES. Agenda-driven scientists want to push the U.S. into a costly climate pact.

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.

"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse.

The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals. What's more, the documents show that there was no real consensus even within the CRU crowd. Some scientists had strong doubts about the accuracy of estimates of temperatures from centuries ago, estimates used to back claims that more recent temperatures are rising at an alarming rate.

By Louise Gray, Telegraph

Copenhagen climate summit: Tony Blair calls on world leaders to 'get moving'

The world must take action on climate change at Copenhagen even if the science is not correct, Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister has suggested.

Following the 'climategate scandal', Mr Blair said the science may not be "as certain as its proponents allege".

But he said the world should act as a precaution against floods, droughts and mass extinction caused by climate change, in fact it would be "grossly irresponsible" not to.

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When actually 12 out of 13 scientists DON'T believe in global warming

Excellent in-depth article on Climategate and its ramifications.

David Rose, DailyMail

The claim was both simple and terrifying: that temperatures on planet Earth are now 'likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years'.

As its authors from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) must have expected, it made headlines around the world.

Yet some of the scientists who helped to draft it, The Mail on Sunday can reveal, harboured uncomfortable doubts.

In the words of one, David Rind from the US space agency Nasa, it 'looks like there were years around 1000AD that could have been just as warm'.

Rea the rest of the article.

CBS played a clip of Hide the Decline. It was also played on CNN (can't find the clip). Stephanie Gutmann wrote another nice article on our newest video "It's A Climate gate Christmas" on the London Telegraph's website. Here's one a little closer to home.

Heard this on MPR this morning, almost drove off the road.

Minnesota already has some of the strongest requirements in the country for utilities to become more efficient and produce more power with renewables.

...most of the electricity still comes from coal-fired power plants, and Great River Energy is worried about the costs of cap and trade. ... only expects to get enough permits to cover half the company's emissions.

... the best way for utilities to reduce their greenhouse gases is through conservation. In fact, Minnesota requires utilities to try to sell one-and-a-half percent less electricity every year.

Higher electricity prices might provide some persuasive power of their own. And a cap and trade system will make electricity generated by fossil fuels more expensive. So Minnesotans will either have to use less or pay more.

What struck me the most is that our law requires electrical companies to sell one-and-a-half percent less electricity every year. What if they discover cold fusion? The goal here doesn't seem to be to reduce emissions but rather to reduce electrical generation.

Stephanie says we have two options, use less electricity or pay more. I can think of a third option ...MOVE!

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com

"Hitler Youth" attempt to crush freedom of speech while chanting cult-like environmental mantras

Groups of agitant green youth corps invaded the stage during Lord Monckton's speech at an Americans for Prosperity event in Copenhagen yesterday, attempting to sabotage the private meeting while chanting cult-like environmental mantras in a shocking example of how the environmentalist elite have activated cadres of young brownshirts to crush the free speech of anyone who dares dissent against the global warming orthodoxy.

A Huffington Post write-up of the incident attempts to characterize Monckton as the villain of the story because he called the teenage brownshirts out for what they were, "crazed Hitler youth."

"The young activists, representing a number of youth action groups including SustainUS, the Sierra Student Coalition, the Cascade Climate Network, and other American youth NGOs, kicked off the protest by holding banners in front of the cameras reading "Climate Disaster Ahead" and "Clean Energy Now."

By Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters

Al Gore warned CNN viewers Wednesday about imminent planetary doom at the hands of his favorite bogeyman global warming just seconds before Kiran Chetry reported the "monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states" with "winter still two weeks away."

On "American Morning" to discuss issues surrounding the United Nations climate change conference taking place in Copenhagen, the former Vice President said, "All the mountain glaciers all over the world are melting, many of them at a greatly accelerated rate, threatening drinking water supplies."

Shortly after this ominous forecast, Chetry told viewers, "Winter still two weeks away, but snow plows are out from the plains to the Northeast. A monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states."

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London Guardian

Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol

The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

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.

The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.

The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of commitment" - but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark - has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week.

The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol's principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol - the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.

Opinion Editorial by Michael Economides and Art Horn

Emission Impossible is what Obama's preposterous pledge to "cut in emissions" in this week's Copenhagen conference is shaping up to be. "Climategate" has shown the motivations of the advocates and alarmists are as political as most suspected. The science shows much different conclusions than the "consensus."

China and India will not agree to economic hara-kiri and new facts will most likely render any attempts at Copenhagen obsolete.

Climate change is real. The earth has been coming out of a 450 year cold era since it bottomed out in the late 1600s. Hundreds of studies have verified the existence of this cold period. The IPCC tried to erase the climate history of the last 1,000 years in its 2001 report--replacing all the peer reviewed studies of past climate with one that fit their needs. The now defunct "hockey stick" graph showed virtually no significant change in temperature of the world over the last 1,000 years. Conveniently the graph then shows a rapid and abrupt increase in global temperature during the last 100 years--supposedly due to our sin of burning fossil fuels and stoking the fires of global warming.

Declan McCullagh, CBS News

Widening concern about the state of climate science after thousands of internal e-mails and computer files were posted on the Internet could jeopardize any agreement at this week's summit in Copenhagen.

Although a sweeping international deal already appeared unlikely, agreement on even less ambitious measures will be complicated by the growing ClimateGate scandal and questions that have been raised about the reliability of computer models linking global warming to man-made activities. No less an authority than the U.N.'s top climate official, Yvo de Boer, acknowledged on Sunday that the data leak was damaging; domestically, Republicans are pressing the Obama administration to reevaluate its position. (See CBS News' previous coverage.)

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Written by William F. Jasper, New American

By Elmer Beauregard

Using their own numbers, the warmmongers keep saying that there are 2,500 scientists who still believe in global warming. On the other hand 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying that they don't believe in global warming. So there may be a Consensus, just not the one you were told. If this were a toothpaste commercial there would be some kind of graphic saying "12 out of 13 scientists agree, global warming is a hoax!"

In their attempt to minimize "Climategate" they put out a little story yesterday, "Harvard professor weighs in on climategate". Ok, he's a Harvard professor, but all he is basically saying is "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain". (or should I say Mann behind the curtain?)

He mentions the peer reviewed process twice, as does Ed Begley Jr. about 100 times. Which has always been one of their main talking points. The thing this story fails to mention is that Climategate reveals that their whole peer reviewing process is corrupt. The "Peers" are the ones pushing the propaganda and they won't allow any dissenting voices into their publications.

By Dan Gainor - FOXNews.com

The network news media have been hiding in the storm cellar, hoping the Climate-gate story will blow over. But the storm isn't going away.

It never rains but it pours. You would think climate experts would know that. Clearly, they don't. Instead, supposed climate scientists have been caught in a storm of their own making over documents released onto the Web raising huge questions about how global warming "science" has been done.

At issue is an enormous dump of data from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit that was leaked or hacked and placed online. The data included more than 1,000 e-mails - many of them back-and-forth communications among prominent scientists. The private e-mails showed potentially unethical or illegal behavior and a possible conspiracy to distort science for political gain. That scary list includes plans to avoid freedom of information requests, efforts to delete data and discussions of ways to intimidate the peer review process of scientific publications.

But the broadcast networks haven't bothered with the story.

Phil Jones, head of the climate unit, stepped aside temporarily for an investigation. Climate scientist Michael Mann, one of the originators of the famous "hockey stick graph," is being investigated by Penn State as well. Republicans on Capitol Hill are calling for an overall investigation into the scandal.

And the network news media have been hiding in the storm cellar, hoping this one blows over. Only it isn't going away. It's now been 13 days since the story hit the news and despite network censors, the Climate-gate scandal is turning up the heat on global warming advocates. What started as a drizzle of stories in The New York Times and Washington Post is growing into an Internet flood that is sweeping along traditional news outlets from CNN to NPR.

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From Biggovernment.com

Watts Up With That

It seems the uncertainty about Copenhagen is growing. When Al baby pulls the plug, you know it's hosed.

From Berlingske: Al Gore cancels lecture during COP15

Former U.S. vice president has canceled his event, more than 3,000 Danes have purchased a ticket. Photo: JOSE MENDEZ

Looks like they will get a refund though. Might be worth more as a collectors item in ten years though.

I wonder how many people have shelled out $1200 to shake Al's hand? Maybe not enough and he couldn't cover the expenses for his private jet?

By Bryan Walsh, Time

When "Climategate" broke on Nov. 20, with hackers stealing and subsequently releasing more than a thousand apparently dubious e-mails by renowned climate scientists, the timing couldn't have been more inconvenient for advocates of action on climate change. The major U.N. global-warming summit in Copenhagen was just a few weeks away, and the U.S. Senate was starting work on a bill that would cap U.S. carbon emissions. It was the eve of a month in which crucial decisions could be made in the global effort to curb climate change before its effects become truly dangerous.

The publication of private e-mails from researchers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at Britain's East Anglia University, which raised questions about whether scientists had distorted or scrubbed data on global warming, "could scarcely be more damaging," in the words of English environmental writer George Monbiot. But it was only one in a series of troubling indicators that skepticism about global warming is on the rise. A survey released in October by the Pew Research Center found that the number of Americans who believed there is solid evidence that the world is warming had dropped from 71% in April 2008 to 57% in October 2009; over the same period, the percentage who believed climate change is a very serious problem had dropped from 44% to 35%.

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By Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal

Surely there must have been serious men and women in the hard sciences who at some point worried that their colleagues in the global warming movement were putting at risk the credibility of everyone in science. The nature of that risk has been twofold: First, that the claims of the climate scientists might buckle beneath the weight of their breathtaking complexity. Second, that the crudeness of modern politics, once in motion, would trample the traditions and culture of science to achieve its own policy goals. With the scandal at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, both have happened at once.

I don't think most scientists appreciate what has hit them. This isn't only about the credibility of global warming. For years, global warming and its advocates have been the public face of hard science. Most people could not name three other subjects they would associate with the work of serious scientists. This was it. The public was told repeatedly that something called "the scientific community" had affirmed the science beneath this inquiry. A Nobel Prize was bestowed (on a politician).

Global warming enlisted the collective reputation of science. Because "science" said so, all the world was about to undertake a vast reordering of human behavior at almost unimaginable financial cost. Not every day does the work of scientists lead to galactic events simply called Kyoto or Copenhagen. At least not since the Manhattan Project.

What is happening at East Anglia is an epochal event. As the hard sciences--physics, biology, chemistry, electrical engineering--came to dominate intellectual life in the last century, some academics in the humanities devised the theory of postmodernism, which liberated them from their colleagues in the sciences. Postmodernism, a self-consciously "unprovable" theory, replaced formal structures with subjectivity. With the revelations of East Anglia, this slippery and variable intellectual world has crossed into the hard sciences.

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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA
AP File Photo

The leaked e-mails at the center of the "climategate" scandal should be the focus of a criminal probe, according to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA. 

The e-mails, allegedly obtained by a hacker who broke into the server used by the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, reveal that CRU scientists manipulated data in order to show a dramatic rise in temperatures and attempted to suppress evidence that contradicted their results.

Sen. Boxer, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says that the recently released e-mails should be treated as a crime.

"You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., has asked for a Senate investigation into the "climategate" scandal. Boxer said her committee may hold hearings into the matter, but that a criminal probe would be part of any such hearings.

"We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated. This is a crime."

By Elmer Beauregard

How long will you waver between two opinions?

In Copenhagen next week world leader are coming together to try to form a one world government based on the fictitious problem "Global Warming". The last time there was a one world government was when Nimrod built the Tower of Babel. God was not pleased and he confused our language and scattered us around the world and man has been trying to rebuild that tower ever since.

In recent years God has been trying to remind us that He is in control of the weather not man. I don't know how many "Global Warming" meetings have been canceled due to winter storms. And don't forget when Newsweek came out in 1996 with their now infamous "Global Warming Cover", it hit the stands the same time as the "Blizzard Of The Century". Incidentally that's when they started calling it "Climate Change".

See Elmer's 2nd Law of Global Warming.

Associated Press Writer Rohan Sullivan

SYDNEY - Australia's Parliament defeated legislation to set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system on Wednesday, throwing a central plank of the government's plans to combat global warming into disarray.

The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration's proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.

The 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party at first agreed to support a version of the government's bill, then dramatically dumped its leader and switched sides after bitter divisions erupted within the party.

Rudd had wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a world leader on the issue.

Rest of the article.

Tony Pann, Baltimore Weather Examiner

Penn State University is home to the largest meteorology program in the nation. It's something they are proud of. They are also home to Professor Michael Mann, who was exposed for 'tricking data' in CRU documents recently released in what is now known as Climategate. Mann is responsible for developing the famous hockey stick diagram of historical global temperatures used in Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. This was designed to highlight abrupt warming in the past century that looks like a hockey stick on a timeline. We now know that to not be true... The trick, unfortunately made some aspects of past climate hide extremes to exaggerate any warming in recent years. Here is the e-mail that was sent from Phil Jones at CRU to the authors of the hockey stick. In it, credit is given to Mike for his 'trick' to manipulate data: