Global warming latest

A few days to catch up on, so here are quite a lot of global warming-related stories you may have missed:

• China will not be engaging in carbon trading internally
• Britain wants to debate global warming at the UN Security Council
• …while UK government departments are missing their own targets on emissions
• A senior climatologist suggests that those scientists engaged in building climate models are in fact merely software engineers
• MIT Professor Richard Lindzen suggests global warming alarmism is a religious belief
• Europe goes nuclear
• The EU Presidency’s conclusions on energy and climate (sections 29 to 38)
• …but Cyprus argues that it shouldn’t be included
• Climate alarmists accuse their previously beloved IPCC of corruption
• IPCC’s second working group summary is leaked to press
• Poland accepts EU plan on basis that no country will be forced to pursue emissions cuts
• One major solar scientist argues that more research on the sun is needed to assess accurately what causes climate change
• Czech President Vaclav Klaus also compares environmentalism to religion
• UK politicians engage in a massive battle to capture the green vote
• … but splits emerge in the Tory party over the issue
• … and one left-leaning newspaper calls Tory plan “plane crazy“
• … splits also emerge in Labour
• … so Chancellor (and likely successor to Blair) calls for “new world order“
• … yet also insists green policies should be costed
• … while Blairites call on Environment Secretary to challenge Brown
• Columnist Janet Daley says green lobby must not be allowed to stifle debate
• Active debate over the meaning of Solar System Warming
• A statistical examination of climate shifts suggests some interesting things
• The Western Himalayas appear to be responding differently to warming than other parts of the globe
• Tree rings may not be a good indicator of climatic conditions
• Despite accepting the consensus science, Americans aren’t particularly worried about global warming
• The EU Parliament’s peripatetic existence is harming the environment!
• Germany rejects EU call for a speed limit on its freeways
• India’s coal demand may quadruple by 2031

Believe me, that’s just a sampling of the stories we could include…