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Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally-such as for the last dozen years or so-it does little that can be discerned.

A December 7^th Message Regarding the Proposed Copenhagen Climate Treaty

Welcome to CO2IsGreen.org and for today, December 7^th, 2009, to SpeakOutforAmerica.com. I would like to make some brief remarks about the meeting that is being convened in Copenhagen which will attempt to come up with an agreement, and ultimately a treaty, to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide.

The bottom line of what we believe the empirical observations are telling us about CO2 and climate change and the impact of restricting CO2 emissions follow:

1.    CO2 is not a major cause of climate change. While Earth's climate system is extremely complex, three key observations mentioned in the videos today, bear this out.

a.    Increases or decreases in atmospheric CO2 follow temperature changes.

b.    CO2's capacity to trap additional heat in the Earth's atmosphere declines very rapidly, logarithmically, and has nearly maxed out.

Rising levels of carbon dioxide may overheat the planet and cause other environmental problems, but fears that rising CO2 levels could directly reduce plant biodiversity can be allayed, according to a new study by a University of Minnesota scientist Peter Reich.

In fact, rising CO2 may actually help counteract losses of diversity from another environmental villain: the global rain of nitrogen from fertilizers and exhaust fumes.

By James Simpson

By Roy Innis and Paul Driessen Monday, October 19, 2009 As the 821-page Kerry-Boxer climate bill gets fast-tracked in the Senate, as a companion to the 1427-page House bill, it is critical that we reexamine the assumptions behind cap-tax-and-trade legislation.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Information Administration and other optimistic analysts claim America can limit and tax hydrocarbon use, and switch to "ecologically friendly" renewable energy, with minimal harm to families, businesses and jobs. Their low-ball cost estimates are based on assumptions that can only have come from another planet:

These EPA and EIA assumptions are naively optimistic at best:

For years, claims that UN climate reports represent the consensus of the majority of international scientists have been mindlessly accepted and regurgitated by left-leaning policy makers and the media at large. But in the past week or so, it's become more apparent than ever that those who've accused the international organization of politicizing science and manipulating data have been right all along.

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don't cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) is working on the wording of the agreement they want all countries to sign at the Copenhagen meeting in December 2009. The current text as of September 15, 2009, is available in the Ad Hoc Working Group Cooperative action Under the Convention at: [http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Bx4XLQCleuUYMmIwMDg4M2UtY2M2OC00MzZhLTg0YTItNDEyODdkNGU3NmY4]

It isn't often an energy company (of all things) gets to present itself as an environmental crusader, cozy up to Washington rulemakers, buy political protection, and pad its bottom line-all in one neat little announcement. So give Pacific Gas & Electric, PNM and Exelon credit for going for the gold.

New trade group formed to fight for energy policies that promote prosperity

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The newly released Kerry-Boxer climate bill amounts to little more than a bait-and-switch energy scam that will cripple America, said the newly formed American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy (ACARE).

The United Nations Environmental Programme just released a major report in advance of the Climate Change Summit to take place in Copenhagen this December. The report is intended to "show how the science has been evolving" since the publication of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in the spring of 2007.

By Bjorn Lomborg Monday, September 28, 2009

COPENHAGEN -- In speech after rousing speech at the United Nations summit on global warming last week, politicians emphasized the need to protect the world's most vulnerable, who will be hit hardest by climate change. The rhetoric did little to disguise an awful truth: If we continue on our current path, we are likely to harm the world's poorest much more than we help them.

There's good news on the global climate change front:

All that carbon dioxide blamed for global warming is actually good for our planet, says Cody scientist and writer Leighton Steward. "The earth's atmosphere needs more carbon dioxide," he said at a recent Rotary Club meeting.

"That ought to get everyone's attention."