Even though evidence continues to mount against the blather coming from global-warming agenda-seeking enthusiasts, the president-elect plans to establish strict limits that would reduce emissions to almost impossible levels.

A Reuters article entitled, “Obama vows climate action despite financial crisis” really should have been entitled, “Despite evidence to the contrary, Obama will force U.S. to enter new era of global cooperation on climate change.”

Because that’s what the nation’s new leader plans on doing. "We will establish strong annual targets that set us on a course to reduce emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 and reduce them by an additional 80 percent by 2050," he said.

This is exactly what France’s Sarkozy called for and Great Britain has called for, right down to the last little detail. The only thing he didn’t mention was personal carbon ration cards, where one’s gasoline, plane tickets, and heating fuel consumption are tracked. When one’s carbon allotment is used up, one could opt to stay put, freeze to death, or trade with others on the black market.

Team Gore Update:

Journalist Christopher Booker of theTelegraph in the UK has owned two members of Al Gore's team of global warming alarmists:

Dr. James Hansen - head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) and chief scientific supporter of Al Gore's weather forecast: Booker reports that last week Hansen's group announced that this October was the warmest on record.  Independent researchers, not part of the global warming propaganda campaign, found this somewhat suspicious in light of unprecedented cold weather reports from around the globe during the month.  They investigated the GISS data - and shock!  It was defective.  Seems that all the data for Russia in the October report was rolled forward from the previous months(s).  An astronomer by training, it appears that Dr. Hansen is somewhat challenged by terra firma data.  (Comic irony footnote:  Hansen's GISS outfit in New York City occupies the building whose first floor tenant is the diner used in the TV comedy Seinfeld.  Apparently, some of the elaborate deception schemes cooked-up by George Constanza in the famous eatery may have been able to ride the local thermals at least as far as the upper floors of the building.  Life imitates art.  Who said Team Gore wasn't working off a script?)

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri- head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):  The IPCC is the outfit that promoted Al Gore's movie Inconvenient Truth to the point where the committee that hands out Nobel Prizes for Peace decided he just had to be given one; a ridiculous choice, but unfortunately not unprecedented.  At the end of his article, Booker notes that Dr. Pachauri himself was recently caught in Australia claiming that in the last decade global temperatures have recently been rising "very much faster" than ever.  While Dr. Pachauri may also be working off of data produced in Russia, even global warming fans know that global climate data over the last several years is mixed and not capable of justifying such a statement.   Like Dr. Hansen, Dr. Pachauri is not a climatologist by training.  He started out his professional career in India as a manager in a diesel locomotive firm.  He then went on to pick up a masters and PhD in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University.  (Disclaimer:  Editor has one son at NC State and another at UNC Chapel Hill so he can't elaborate on the prowess of NC State graduates.)

With Dr. Hansen's group having slipped up on the data being produced in Russia and Dr. Pachauri having to manage beyond his areas of expertise, we thought it would be good time to recap the background of other Team Gore members that made Inconvenient Truth the scientific wonder that it is.  From a review of the movie in January 2007:

[A] telling aspect of the Gore film:  An entire documetary on a scientific issue with not a single scientist speaking on camera to support Gore's arguments.  OK, so the directors maybe used artistic license there.  Watch their credits at the end of the film.  Under image acknowlegements, because Gore displayed a picture of the Earth taken from space, you can be impressed by a credit for NASA, ditto for some other image-source combinations.  What you will not find is a single acknowlegement of thanks to any scientist or scientific organization.  No, not even a single scientist as an advisor to the director or editor.

You can note that the film had six [obscure] researchers  [Here are the closest matches for a web search of their names in January 2007]:

Lynda Hayden - other research credits include Surf Girls and Sorority Life III.

Keith Relkin - If [this is] the right guy, being a Scientologist makes him the closest thing to a scientist on the Gore team.

Marianna Yarovskaya - cut her investigative journalist teeth with Russian State Televison. Also worked on the documentary KAL007

Stephen Ruskowski - ranks no more than a below the line credit for [the movie's] Director Guggenheim

Gwen Cassidy - noted on only one other production: Travel Channel's Made in America.

Carey Ann Strelecki - one generic reference: "production supervisor - broadcast media"

In another newsworthy item, South Africa is experiencing its coldest night on record — in the spring time.

The U.S. media's coverage? Crickets. Not even chirping ones.

A surprise snowfall has transformed parts of "KwaZulu-Natal ... into a 'winter wonderland'," reports the Independent Online.

The Online also states: "Temperatures plummeted into the low teens, with residents of Kokstad and Giants Castle waking up to 0C," and "Durban experienced its coldest September night in recorded history on Friday night."

Meanwhile, the U.S. press continues to prostrate before the altar of junk science, uttering headlines in reverenced tones of concern about impending environmental disaster supposedly caused by man-made global warming.

The Detroit Free Press dutifully regurgitated dire warnings from "scientists" about Arctic Sea ice shrinkage, claiming:

The ice covered 1.74 million square miles on Friday, marking a low point for this summer, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

Last summer, the sea ice covered only 1.59 million square miles, the lowest since record-keeping began in 1979.

For a scientific look at the non-man-made reasons behind the melting, click here.

The buzz words of the environmentalists — “alternative green energy,” “conservation,” and “recycling” — no doubt convey a sort of happy, positive approach to the challenge of maintaining a clean, healthy environment. But despite their popularity, these “solutions” can’t fix problems that are associated with too much government.

Let us take the supposed grassroots activity of recycling. How many hours out of each month do people spend separating glass, aluminum, and cardboard? In Sweden it is mandatory to recycle. Recyclers that don’t do it the way the state demands are taken out behind the recycling barn and fined — or sent to jail. And according to the Wall Street Journal, the mayor of San Francisco would like to fine people up to $1,000 for improperly sorting their recyclables!

How much time is spent driving to unsightly and unkempt dump containers where people chuck last week’s pizza box into the cardboard bin or toss half-filled cans of soda and beer bottles into the glass compartment? You may ask what the carelessness of a few people has to do with the idea of running a recycling program. Ask the citizens of Sweden, who were being spied upon by government employees to make sure that they put all thei recyclables in the right bins. Sweden even makes its citizens wash the containers before taking them to a recycling center. How much water is used to wash what normally sane people would consider garbage not worth cleaning before tossing?

There is an actual monetary cost involved with recycling that many people have never thought about. How much does it cost to hire drivers and extra mechanics to maintain the extra recycling trucks? How much smoke is blown into the air by those extra recycling trucks?