Investors Business Daily is looking at the report recently released by Sen. Jim Inhofe on an ongoing climate conspiracy, and writes:

Vast sums are being made and will be made through the sale of carbon offsets and carbon credits. Perhaps the Securities and Exchange Commission should investigate the claims of such enterprises.

Gore himself has achieved a net worth estimated by some to be in excess of $100 million by persuading investors to get involved in his enterprises. He’s been touted as possibly the world’s first “carbon billionaire.”

What if it’s all been a fraud all along? Inhofe may not get his investigation, but certainly it is well warranted.

Frankly, it’s too early to know for sure whether there’s any “there” there, but there are good questions to be asked. As they say, sunshine is the best disinfectant (and, we hear, could be the cause of all that global temperature fluctuation).

Senator Jim Inhofe’s staff has released: “Consensus‟ Exposed: The CRU Controversy

“New Climate Agency Head Tried to Suppress Data, Critics Charge”

• Reuters: Senate weighs final push to move climate bill
• “Climate alarmists feeling more heat”
• George Will: Global warming advocates ignore the boulders
• Oh, now the number of storms may be going down so we need to find a new way to freak people out
• Wall Street Journal: “Climate Change and Open Science”
• Media Research Center: “The NY Times Goes AWOL on Latest ‘Climate Change’ Revelations”
• Michael Fumento: Global warming as religion
• Pielke Jr on the policy impact of IPCC misdirection

Unions are pumped about nuclear energy because of the jobs …

“For the nation’s construction unions, President Barack Obama’s announcement of $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees to speed the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Georgia means one thing: Jobs.
And that’s why both AFL-CIO Building Trades Department President Mark Ayers and Plumbers and Pipefitters President William Hite were enthusiastic about Obama’s Feb. 17 announcement, made at the Electrical Workers Local 26 hall in Lanham, Md.

Obama said on the campaign trail and reiterated in his State of the Union address that nuclear power should be part of the mix that helps march the U.S. towards lesser dependence on imported foreign oil.

But don’t forget, forcibly creating “green jobs” kills twice as many real jobs.

“Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report’s author now says true estimate is still unknown”

Excellent:

Texas and several national industry groups on Tuesday filed separate petitions in federal court challenging the government’s authority to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Texas, which leads U.S. states in carbon dioxide emissions due to its heavy concentration of oil refining and other industries, will see a major impact if U.S. mandatory emissions reductions take effect.

In December, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endanger human health, opening the door for the agency to issue mandatory regulations to reduce them.

over at Shopfloor (a good read to catch up)

The latest bellwether for a doomed cap and trade bill moving out of the Senate lies in yesterday’s news of three biggie energy companies bailing on the U.S. Climate Action Partnership.  Lots of spinning going on with this story, but anyone reading the political tea leaves should know what the real story is.

Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away.

Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won’t renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases.

The move comes as debate over climate change intensifies and concerns mount about the cost of capping greenhouse-gas emissions.

On a range of issues, from climate change to health care, skepticism is growing in Washington that Congress will pass any major legislation in a contentious election year in which Republicans are expected to gain seats. For companies, the shifting winds have reduced pressure to find common ground, leading them to pursue their own, sometimes conflicting interests.

If you’re on the east coast and still digging out from the snowpocalypse, you might have missed SPPI’s recent released report that does a Woodward-Bernstein level deconstruction of the fraud known today as Climategate, including an extensive survey of the literature and data regarding ground and sea surface temperature records uncovers deception through data manipulation.  Authors veteran meteorologists Joe d’Aleo and Anthony Watts analyzed temperature records from all around the world for a major SPPI paper, Surface Temperature Records – Policy-driven Deception? The startling conclusion that we cannot tell whether there was any significant “global warming” at all in the 20th century is based on numerous astonishing examples of manipulation and exaggeration of the true level and rate of “global warming”.

That is to say, leading meteorological institutions in the USA and around the world have so systematically tampered with instrumental temperature data that it cannot be safely said that there has been any significant net “global warming” in the 20th century.

Read all about it here: