Czech President: Václav Klaus on the global warming debate: 'They have succeeded in establishing the religion of environmentalism as the official religion of Western society'[i-klaus]

'Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36% of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6% just one year ago. It's the result of an unprecedented regulatory assault on coal that will leave us all much poorer'

'A team of researchers reports in Nature Geoscience that land-based water storage could account for 0.77 millimetres per year, or 42%, of the observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003. Of that amount, the extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use, with subsequent run-off to rivers and eventually to the oceans, represents the bulk of the contribution'

'Much of the remaining claimed 1mm/year rise is due to subsidence caused by groundwater pumping, as well as gravity dragging the tide gauges down. Our satellite friends recently tripled Envisat sea level rise to almost 3mm/year, to bring it in line with their other bogus trends'

'The research contradicts several recent studies suggesting that 'carbon sinks' have reached or passed their capacity. By looking at global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the new work calculates instead that total sinks have increased roughly in line with rising emissions'

'Former believers have become skeptics. NASA astronauts and scientists now doubt the whole business and the remaining true believers accuse them of joining the Flat Earth Society or becoming the equivalent of Holocaust deniers'

'As of 1999, the 1990s were much cooler than the 1930s. People who lived through both decades accepted that assessment. Then Hansen adjusted corrupted the temperature data, and instantaneously the downwards trend was converted into a trend of unprecedented warming – unlike anything humans had ever experienced'

Dr. Easterbrook: 'What we see now in the climate is nothing new 90% of 10000 years was warmer than the present'

'In the coming years the temperature over the entire planet will fall and the cooling will provide a character of relief. This is the conclusion reached by Russian scientists from the Physics University of the Russian Academy of Science'

'The world has moved on - and very much as the heretics were urging for so long. The global warming scare has not continued to unfold as projected by those bent computer models on which it rested. Temperatures have not risen as predicted, the ice caps aren't melting, nor sea levels rising, nor hurricanes, droughts and heatwaves intensifying as we were assured they would'

Czech President Klaus: Eastern Europe succumbs to EU´s climate change doctrine

'The Heartland conference is one of the most brazen examples of how the fossil fuel industry funds climate change denialism for its own profit, at the expense of the millions of people around the world already suffering from massive climate disruptions -- floods, droughts, and more'

'Science tells us that all developed countries would need to reduce emissions by 80-95% in order to have a fair chance of keeping global warming below 2°C. If we do not step up climate action, temperatures might increase by as much as 4°C by 2100'

'As we have seen on the domestic front, green energy is not cheaper. If cutting energy costs is the military's goal, why was the U.S. Navy recently forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels at an outrageous cost of $16 a gallon in place of standard JP-5 fuel for Navy aircraft that can be had for about $4 a gallon? It's bad enough we are forced to put corn in our gas tanks, but in our fighter aircraft as well?'

'But natural disasters, topographic changes and population booms and busts have always occurred and will continue to occur. Moreover, none of these phenomena can be scientifically tied to manmade emissions of CO2. So they are simply irrelevant sideshow issues'

'Must have lobbying skills to convince local government and residents to invest in preparing for climate change. Al Gore-style PowerPoint abilities a plus'

'If the entire Internet were a country,it would be the 5th largest consumer of electricity globally, moaned Claudia Sprinz, super-nag of Greenpeace Austria...A huge consumption of resources is taking place out of pure boredom, Sprinz says. Youtube videos of cats,wondering aimlessly through the web or searching for worthless information that is forgotten three minutes later. This behavior is destroying the environment'

More on today's warmist climate protest in Chicago

'CFACT Senior Advisor Paul Driessen expounded on the runaway EPA during a morning session. CFACT advisors Dennis Avery, Craig Oasis, and William Gray also had their turns at the lectern, while CFACT staff threw a Global Warming Beach Party at their booth, handing out leis'

Morano: 'I think it's a temporary feeding frenzy. If Heartland had just started last year and only had 10 donors when that happened it could have been fatal. But this is a hiccup'

'Shortly after Al Gore's science fiction movie, I started to document the number of scientists deserting the alarmist camp. Today, Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com keeps tabs on the latest count, with well over 1,000 scientists disputing climate alarmism'

'Even most climate change experts focus on new forms of energy — which cannot possibly be effective quickly enough or produced on a broad enough scale to avert what may be the coming catastrophe —and often ignore the much easier fix of adjusting our eating habits'

'This requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship.'

'While Cap and Trade is being sold as the first step towards reversing global warming, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit discovered some critics who point to the very law and say there are loopholes built into it that allow the program to be 'gamed' to make some companies millions of dollars without significant benefits to the environment or significant reductions in greenhouse gases'