Get ready. Here it comes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid revealed today that he has a draft cap-and-tax monstrosity in the works. The Dems are gearing up for debate this month. Or rather, "debate." Remember what Democrat Max Baucus said about his own colleagues -- they don't know "what the heck" they are doing as... Read More

In his widely-panned, bloodless Oval Office address Tuesday night (did I call this last month or what!?), President Obama tapped his Navy Secretary Ray Mabus as the new oil spill recovery czar. Doesn't he have enough to do leading the Navy? More to the point, as my latest column below points out, don't we have... Read More

Scroll for updates... I'm still on my family vacation, but wanted to pop in to spotlight today's important Senate battle over the EPA war on carbon. It's a subject we've covered here over the past year (reminders here and here that opposition to the Obama regulatory power grab is crossing party lines). The Hill reports... Read More

A cringe-inducing moment for GOP Rep. Frank LoBiondo, who confuses the 1st Amendment with Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution when confronted by a voter at a town hall meeting. Next time, spare yourself the added embarrassment and just say: "I don't know." Hat tip: The Hill (which hat tips Paul Mulshine of the... Read More

Ladies and gentlemen, I call your attention to the key passage in unrepentant Climate Change Republican John McCain's Senate floor statement yesterday on cap-and-trade. Note well (hat tip: Edward John Craig/Planet Gore): More than three months after the ClimateGate scandal broke and despite relentless new disclosures every week about the fraud, misconduct, and distortions that... Read More

I called ClimateGate "the global warming scandal of the century" back on November 20. Deeper and deeper it goes. Over the weekend, University of East Anglia global warming cultist Phil Jones conceded that there has been no statistically significant warming over the last 15 years: The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose... Read More

The Massachusetts Miracle wasn't just a wake-up call for Democrats. It was a wake-up call for Big Government Republicans, Business-As-Usual Republicans, McCain Republicans, and Climate Change Republicans. Lindsey Graham is all four, of course. In October, he penned an enviro-nitwit op-ed with John Kerry signing on to the Democrats' massive cap-and-tax plan. He's singing a... Read More

Three items for you about Michael Mann, ClimateGate bully/eco-con artist... 1) First, watch the news report from Pennsylvania -- where Mann is under investigation by Penn State: Background from the Commonwealth Foundation. They've called for an independent investigation and expose Penn State's conflicts of interests in the matter. 2) The Foundry flags Mann's $514,000 stimulus... Read More

Who's in the mood for some Dean Martin? The Copenhagen debacle has me singing, "Let It Snow:" President Obama delivered a stinker of speech -- yawn -- panned by his former Euro-groupies whose Obama-philia has chilled considerably. Obama managed to cobble a "feeble" agreement that he is, of course, calling "unprecedented." Obama leaves the snow-covered... Read More

Hmmmm. Left-wing radical billionaire George Soros has injected himself into the Copenhagen climate change talks. He is riding to the "rescue" of negotiators at loggerheads over the pricetag of global regulatory intervention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Look: The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change... Read More

Al Gore is on his ClimateGate whitewash mission -- and, as usual, ManBearPig isn't going to let inconvenient facts get in the way of his eco-crusade. He talked with Slate magazine's John Dickerson and repeatedly pooh-poohed the scandalous ClimateGate e-mails as "more than 10 years old," "over 10-year-old e-mails," and "an e-mail exchange more than... Read More

Add another global warming lie to the stinking green heap: EPA chief Lisa Jackson has denied that the greenhouse gas endangerment finding had anything to do at all with the Copenhagan climate change conference. Nope, don't question the timing of the EPA's war on carbon. Pure coincidence. Except... Jackson herself said the exact opposite in... Read More

Eco-czars of the Obama administration, activate! Form of...a corrupted "scientific" finding on greenhouse gas "public endangerment." Timed for maximum impact on the Copenhagen global warming treaty talks, the Obama EPA is set to announce that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, paving the way for the green bureaucrats to radically regulate emissions. Keeping an... Read More

Make sure you keep this list of 56 newspapers handy when looking for thorough, fair coverage of the ClimateChange scandal. These are 56 newspapers that you cannot trust on the issue: Today, the eco-herd of papers published a collective editorial whipping up hysteria over the issue in the face of massive data manipulation, suppression, and... Read More

The chill wind of ClimateGate has blown over Al Gore's $1,200-per handshake lecture at Copenhagen. He has canceled the hot-air hoedown. ClimateDepot dubbed the crumbling global warming conference next week "Nopenhagen." Blow, winds of change, blow: Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged... Read More

Another gargantuan reason, in the wake of ClimateGate, to call the whole damned thing off: When an estimated 16,500 delegates, activists and reporters descend upon Copenhagen Monday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, a lot of hot air will follow. The U.N. estimates the 12-day conference will create 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents,... Read More

Graph via Steve McIntyre My syndicated column today looks at the global warming cultists in the Obama administration who are working overtime to paper over the ClimateGate scandal. Yesterday, Phil Jones, the head of the U.K.’s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia stepped aside while the university investigates. Penn State prof Michael... Read More

"Document dump" is the operative word of the month, isn't it? We had another holiday weekend document dump of visitor logs from the White House, which included these trips: Holdren, of course, is the population control freak/global warming zealout/science czar -- who, as I noted last week, is smack dab in the middle of the... Read More

Ah, science czar John Holdren. He's been hyping climate change catastrophe since the 1970s, has been a master of stonewalling critics of his population control zealotry, and knows how to hide behind friendly water-carriers in the media. So, you won't be surprised to learn he is smack dab in the middle of the exploding ClimateGate... Read More

Yeah, you better pray. I blogged the ClimateGate scandal last week. It keeps going -- and growing. There are calls on both sides of the pond for an investigation into data manipulation. A former British lord is demanding an independent inquiry: This morning Lord Lawson, who has reinvented himself as a prominent climate change sceptic... Read More

The EPA has two more whistleblowers in its own ranks calling out the agency's flawed agenda and the cap-and-trade monstrosity. You'll recall the case of Alan Carlin, whose research critical of the outdated data used in EPA's "public endangerment finding" on greenhouse gases was stifled by EPA. EPA lawyers Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel have... Read More

Remember the Barbara Boxer eco-power grab I told you about this morning? (Here.) Well, Babs "Don't call me ma'am" Boxer went ahead with the markup "hearing" on her global warming bill despite the absence of all but one Republican (George Voinovich). She sat alone during markup doing nothing for 15 minutes. I obtained photos and... Read More

Welcome to the era of "bipartisanship." Republican participation be damned. Welcome to the most deliberative body in the world. Full deliberation be damned, too: Six ranking Republican U.S. senators Monday warned the head of the environment committee that pushing ahead with a vote on a landmark climate bill this week would "severely damage" the chances... Read More

Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, spoke at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN last week on the UN Climate Change treaty scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. He was hosted by the Minnesota Free Market Institute. Minnesota Majority posted the video of his speech, entitled "Is Obama Poised to... Read More

I hate to say "I told you so." But, well, I told you so. GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has signed on to the Democrats' massive green redistribution scheme masquerading as a planet-saving, national security-enhancing "energy independence" scheme. Can John McCain and the rest of the Climate Change Republicans be far behind? First, a quick trip... Read More