I haven’t had a Global Warming Roundup in a while, so let’s see what’s new.

Straight out of the starting blocks is Al Gore who apparently salted his presentation with a lie so big he even noticed.

Gore Pulls ‘Misleading’ Slide of Disaster Trends/p>

Former Vice President Al Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation. When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in disasters in recent years. The data came from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (also called CRED) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels.

The graph, which was added to his talk last year, came just after a sequence of images of people from Iowa to South Australia struggling with drought, wildfire, flooding and other weather-related calamities. Mr. Gore described the pattern as a manifestation of human-driven climate change. “This is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented,” he said.

Now Mr. Gore is dropping the graph, his office said today. Here’s why.

Two days after the talk, Mr. Gore was sharply criticized for using the data to make a point about global warming by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political scientist focused on disaster trends and climate policy at the University of Colorado. Mr. Pielke noted that the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters stressed in reports that a host of factors unrelated to climate caused the enormous rise in reported disasters (details below).

Dr. Pielke quoted the Belgian center: “Indeed, justifying the upward trend in hydro-meteorological disaster occurrence and impacts essentially through climate change would be misleading. Climate change is probably an actor in this increase but not the major one — even if its impact on the figures will likely become more evident in the future.”

If only the Great Deceiver would give the rest of his spotty facts the same consideration.

Next, Oslo has a problem: Too much ice:

Oslo looks more like ‘Ice Age’; City resorts to ‘dumping truckloads of snow in sea’

It looks more like an Ice Age than global warming.

There is so much snow in Oslo, where I live, that the city authorities are resorting to dumping truckloads of it in the sea because the usual storage sites on land are full.

That is angering environmentalists who say the snow is far too dirty – scraped up from polluted roads — to be added to the fjord.

Darn that warming.

Next, the title of this says it all:

Dems Cool On Climate Change As Economic Pressures Escalate

To environmentalists, there is no more urgent question than addressing global climate change. The new Democrat-led Congress has vowed to pass major cap-and-trade legislation in response.

Later this year. Maybe.

While President Obama said in Canada last week that climate change remains a priority, Congress appears in no hurry to act.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., last week promised a bill “hopefully” by late summer. The House is unlikely to even attempt to pass a major bill until December at the earliest, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

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Green activists want to push ahead now while they have a chance. That’s creating headaches for the leadership.

Pelosi said earlier this year that she wouldn’t even try to bring up a climate-change bill in 2009 because she lacked the votes. She reversed course last month, telling the San Francisco Chronicle that the House would try to set a vote by December to coincide with a global warming summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

One reason for the change, Pelosi said, was that the government needed the money it could get from the auctioning off of the emissions permits under a cap-and-trade program.

“I believe we have to because we see that as a source of revenue,” the Chronicle reported her saying.

Never pass up a chance to fleece the American public…

And they did manage to slip a little earmark into the Stimulus bill:

Democrats Put Global Warming Rider In Spending Bill

Congressional Democrats have inserted a “dangerous” rider into an appropriations bill that would allow the Department of Interior to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to a release from Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources.

The rider to the Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations bill, Section 429, enables the Interior Department to withdraw two Endangered Species Act rules within 60 days of enactment.

“This would allow the Obama Administration to change rules without any public notice or public comment period, and threatens efforts to create new jobs in an already strapped economy,” the release states.

One rule exempts thousands of federal activities, including those that generate greenhouse gases, from review under the Endangered Species Act by allowing federal agencies to determine themselves whether their actions are likely to adversely affect endangered species, and whether they need scientific review, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

More unconstitutional power grabbing…

One of the reporting satellites seems to be missing:

NASA Global Warming Satellite Fails, Crashes

A  rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed near Antarctica after a failed launch early Tuesday, ending $280 million mission to track global warming from space.

The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. But minutes later, a cover protecting the satellite during launch failed to separate from the rocket, a preliminary investigation found.

Has anyone ever figured out the carbon footprint of a rocket carrying a satellite?

We now pause for this inconvenient truth:

Study: 2008 was coolest year of decade

And finally, the most important story may be this one:

Japanese Commission Challenges UN: Global Warming Not Man-made

A Japanese energy commission released a report last month challenging the supposed international consensus that man is responsible for warming the planet while claiming that climate modeling — the questionably accurate process of predicting the future so key to Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s myth — is immature and akin to ancient astrology.

The study also called the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s conclusion that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise “an unprovable hypothesis,” while castigating “the paucity of the US ground temperature data set used to support the hypothesis.” 

The Japan Society of Energy and Resources was founded in 1980 to “promote the science and technology concerning energy and resources and thus to facilitate cooperation among industry academia and governmental sectors for coping with the problems in this field.”

On Wednesday, the UK Register published a translation of the Society’s January report which for some reason America’s global warming-obsessed press chose to ignore:  (read it here)

So there you have this week’s look into global hysteria and junk science.

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