Global warming roundup

Lots of items you may have missed:

• Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) says U.S. emissions restrictions might only take effect if major developing countries also impose them
• My colleague on Marlo Lewis on how Congress is reverting to the thinking of the Byrd-Hagel resolution
• Al Gore’s Quebecois allies lose big in elections
• Only 24 percent of Americans consider Al Gore an expert on global warming
• … which leads Roger L Simon to ask whether Gore hurts his own cause
• British energy consumption booms and emissions rise
• European Union climate goals will cost €1 trillion
• Russian scientist dismisses idea of massive sea level rise within next thousand years
• Professor David Henderson on climate change, the Stern review and the IPCC
• Alarmist warns of “Carbon Dictatorship” if world fails to act
• EU asserts control over Polish and Czech economies
• More evidence that China will overtake the U.S. as the biggest emitter this year
• A profile of Arctic researcher Syun-Ichi Akasofu
• Indur Goklany says mankind has never been wealthier, healthier, or freer
• Snowball Earth theory looks less and less robust
• Britain’s global warming envoy has a carbon footprint 30 times that of the average Briton
• Germany abandons nuclear and builds coal-fired power stations
• Richard D. North was not impressed by The Great Global Warming Swindle
• The American Thinker on the argument that global warming is a moral matter
• Apparently it’s scientifically OK to be a Big Bang Denier
• IPCC scientists angry at allegations that their report was watered down by governments
• New research suggests very high greenhouse gas concentrations in recent history
• Millions in UK in “fuel poverty” trap
• EU’s new “open skies” policy will generate 26 million extra air journeys

Enough to be going on with?