Written by Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal | 11 March 2010

India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh

Why India's environment minister doesn't like Al Gore's approach to global warming.

Climate-change Cassandras are prone to warning that unless governments take draconian action to limit carbon emissions, the world will suffer grievously and the poor will be hardest hit. Yet here in India, home to more poor people than any other country, a left-of-center government is sounding less than convinced by these prophets of doom, to say nothing of their prescriptions for salvation.

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Written by Christopher Horner, Pajamas Media | 10 March 2010

Soros and his relationship with the DoE made clear in emails.

Emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Obama Department of Energy is using the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) — the lobbying arm of “Big Wind” in the U.S. — to coordinate political responses with two strongly ideological activist groups: the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and the George Soros funded Center for American Progress (CAP).

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Written by Margot Roosevelt, LA Times | 10 March 2010

The state's nonpartisan legislative analyst's office says the losses could occur in the short term. State Sen. David Cogdill uses the report to criticize climate regulation.

Debate over the economic effects of California's first-in-the-nation global warming law flared this week, with a report saying short-term job losses can be expected.

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Written by Orange County Register Editorial | 09 March 2010

Clueless in Sacremento

The possibility of suspending California's Global Warming Solutions Act, a law unlikely to change temperatures but certain to wreak economic havoc, appears to have increased dramatically.

Two large Texas-based refineries have pledged as much as $2 million to pay for signature-gathering to place an initiative on the November ballot that would suspend the global warming law if passed by voters, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing Sacramento sources.

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Written by Emily Pierce, Roll Call | 08 March 2010

John Kerry: Wind Breaker!

In an already challenging election year for the majority, Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) rush to pass a climate change bill has many Democrats scratching their heads and charging that their 2004 presidential nominee could further imperil vulnerable Members this fall.

Climate change had been considered all but dead this year, and Senate Democrats have little appetite to take up the controversial issue after the beating that they have endured over their as-yet-unfinished health care reform efforts.

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Written by Dr. Tim Ball, Canada Free Press | 08 March 2010

The greatest scandal connected to global warming is not exaggeration, fraud or destruction of data to conceal the weakness of the argument. It is those who are personally profiting from promoting this fantasy at the expense of the rest of us.

The comment is absolutely wrong because by far the greatest scandal is the continued political exploitation, fraud and destruction of the economy.

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Written by Fiona Harvey, Financial Times | 08 March 2010

Connie Hedegaard, Danish minister

The world will almost certainly fail to draw up a new treaty on climate change this year, the minister in charge of last year’s Copenhagen summit has admitted, delivering a heavy blow to the barely flickering hopes for a swift global ­settlement.

Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister who masterminded the summit of world leaders on global warming last year and is now the European commissioner for climate change, told the Financial Times negotiations were not progressing fast enough for a treaty to be signed soon.

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Written by Clay Waters, MRC | 08 March 2010

News of the meltdown in the “global warming” propaganda movement was featured on the front page of the Times last week, but has yet to trickle down to the Home & Garden section last Friday. Not even a benign-sounding story by Kate Murphy, “Shifting Soil Threatens Homes’ Foundations,” was free of unsubstantiated environmental alarmism:

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Written by Wall Street Journal Editorial | 08 March 2010

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, via Wikipedia

Politicians the world over are developing cases of cold feet on expensive global-warming pledges. Now reality is sinking in even in Japan.

The Japanese government had set a self-imposed deadline of last Friday to submit a cap-and-trade plan for legislative consideration, but had to delay since the cabinet has yet to agree on the details. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama ran for office last year on a pledge to reduce national carbon emissions by 25% from their 1990 levels by 2020.

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Written by FoxNews | 06 March 2010

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The bitterly contested fight in Washington over global warming and pollution is also taking hold at the state level.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is facing legal heat from states that say new regulations will kill jobs at the worst possible time.

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