A debate between Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson.

The resolution introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to deny the EPA the power to regulate carbon and other greenhouse gases was defeated yesterday 47-53. Six Democratic senators, however, crossed over to support the Murkowski resolution - Evan Bayh (Ind.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mark Pryor (Ark.) and Jay Rockefeller (W.V)

Lately, the public rarely gets to hear Al Gore speak about climate issues. It seems that Mr. Gore has been speaking at invitation-only meetings that are closed to the press. Since the CRU email “hide-the-decline” scandal, the Michael Mann hockey stick debunking, and the errors in the UN-IPCC report, Mr. Gore has been even less available. But, here he is speaking at the University of Tennessee commencement on May 14, 2010. And, while he doesn’t try to explain the controversies about the gathering and interpretation of climate data, he does …

from the Examiner.com

It’s good to be green - Al Gore buys $9 million seaside home
Al Gore laments media coverage of climate change debate

Here’s a link to photos of what may be Al’s new California home  - http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/exclusive-estimate-carbon-footprint-of.html

from FoxNews.com

EXCLUSIVE: Citizen’s Group Plans Extensive Audit of UN Climate Report

from the New York Times

“But centuries of rising temperatures and seas lie ahead if the release of emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation continues unabated, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. …

We presented this story in October, but it is a fitting documentary for Earth Day. It tells the story of a man who convinced his family to go totally environmental.

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Bill Gates, in a talk at TED last month, advocates reducing CO2 emissions to zero to avoid catastrophic effects of global warming.

California’s independent budget watchdog, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, predicts job losses in California due to, among other things, the state’s climate change legislation, according to a report today in Reuters.
In 2006, California passed a climate change law that mandates greenhouse gas emissions cutbacks to 1990 levels by the year 2020.

Here are some of the articles that appeared this week regarding scientists defending their work on climate change.

Remember when Al Gore kept repeating the phrase, “The science is settled,” while he presented his inconvenient truth on global warming?   Well, the science is now publicly - unsettled.
The Daily Mail reports that Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the center of the Climategate or the”hide-the-decline” scandal admitted that “for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.”
The revelations don’t end there. The Daily Mail continues:
“Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have …