This is the new trend in climate alarmism. Previously the measure of global warming has always been air temperatures. But all the satellite data says air temperatures have been in a mild down trend starting 2002. [...]
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Claire McCaskill and other skeptics of the House cap-and-trade energy bill have said the measure would unfairly impact states with coal-fired electricity plants and therefore must be changed or phased in. …[...] In her remarks bringing the debate over the climate bill to a close,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California urged her colleagues to vote in favor of the cap and trade bill,saying the measure was about four things:“jobs,jobs,jobs,…[...] Read the President’s remarks Friday night after the House passed the measure most Capitol Hill staff and press referred to as the Waxman-Markey climate bill. You’ll no. [...] With little hope of passing the measure out of the global warming subcommittee,Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman,D-Calif.,signaled he will move the bill to the full committee,where the legislation would likely pass …[...] The prospects for carbon cap and trade this year are not good:the Senate has too many doubters,Democratic and Republican alike. Still,the measure in the House is interesting. In this new column for National Journal,I argue that with …[...] . The US Congress on Friday approved a $US787 billion ($1.21 trillion) package of tax cuts and fresh spending to salvage the broken US economy,handing President Barack Obama his biggest yet political victory. Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown raced from his late mother’s memorial service in his home state of Ohio to cast the decisive vote at 10:46pm (1446 AEDT Saturday),some three hours and 39 minutes after the previous lawmaker. The Senate voted 60-38 to pass the measure hours after it cleared the House of Representatives by a lopsided 246-183 margin,setting the stage for Obama to sign the measure into law before his self-imposed February 16 deadline. With cancer-stricken Democratic icon Ted Kennedy out ill,the defections were just enough to reach the 60 votes needed to ensure Senate passage of what Obama has called “only the beginning”of work to rescue the broken US economy. The president’s Democratic allies carried the day with no Republican support in the House and just three Republican moderates in the Senate despite his repeated appeals for bipartisanship since taking office January 20 [...] Solar Cycle Change? William,Astronomy,12,30-June-2007 12:29 AM. [...] THE PROPOSITIONS:Measure R –Alan Mittelstaedt says:YES November 3rd,2008 by Celeste Fremon EDITOR’S NOTE:Nobody I know is better informed on all things transportation-related than friend and sometimes WLA guest blogger,…[...] | |||||