'Forget global warming - it's Solar Cycle 25 we need to worry about' -- 'New figures show no warming in 15 years' -- 'World temps may end up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more'

'The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. New York-based Ener1 said it has been affected by competition from China and other countries'

'Earlier this week, Stimulus beneficiary Evergreen Energy bit the dust. Then, Ener1, a manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles and recipient of Stimulus largesse, filed for bankruptcy. And today, the Las Vegas Sun reports that Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of solar panels that received $5.9 million from the Porkulus, will cut two-thirds of its workforce, about 200 employees, only seven months after opening a factory in Nevada'

'From cap-and-trade to the Kyoto treaty, it's not enough to make a choice based solely on a trust that this secretive cabal of climate scientists is telling the truth. The taxpayers paid Mr. Mann; they deserve to know exactly what they were getting for their money...Let an informed public decide on its own whether they've been hoodwinked by charlatans, or that the sky really is falling'

'Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet. Lysenko[of Soviet Union] and his team lived very well, and they fiercely defended their dogma and the privileges it brought them'

Edward David, NAE & NAS; William Happer, Princeton; Michael Kelly, U. of Cambridge, U.K.; William Kininmonth, Aussie Bureau of Met; Richard Lindzen,MIT; James McGrath, VA Tech U.; Rodney Nichols, fmr CEO NY Academy of Sciences; Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager & SpaceShipOne; Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut; Nir Shaviv, Hebrew U.; Henk Tennekes, fmr. dir, Royal Dutch Met Service; Antonio Zichichi, pres of World Fed of Scientists'

'A show of hands beforehand revealed that '90% of the crowd favored statement that human activities are not the main cause of global warming' -- 'Three Oregon-based panelists -- physicist Gordon Fulks, meteorologist Chuck Wiese and former Oregon state climatologist George Taylor -- used long- and short-term temperature measurements and other data to bolster their case'

Latest EU satellite measurements puts sea rise at meager 2.7 inch rate by 2100 and NOAA can't find global warming in the oceans

Dr. David Evans: 'There are literally thousands of feedbacks, each of which either reinforces or opposes direct warming effect of extra CO2. Almost every long-lived system is governed by net feedback that dampens its response to a perturbation...The earth's climate is long-lived and stable— it has never gone into runaway greenhouse, unlike Venus — which strongly suggests that the feedbacks dampen temperature perturbations such as that from extra CO2'

Morano: 'I was in the U.S. Senate, & when a company comes to Congress for a handout it is because they failed in private sector. The taxpayer becomes the funder of last resort. It comes down to who you have lobbied, who you have given money to & who has connections. Imagine if we had this policy in 1970s with computers. Would gov't have given money to IBM or to a college dropout like Bill Gates? You can't have gov't picking winners & losers because you end up with huge fraud & abuse'

Watch Now: Morano reacts: 'Gore & Leonardo DiCaprio at Academy Awards urged people to take city transit. When was the last time that Gore or DiCaprio were on a city bus? This is the power elites telling the masses -- if you will -- how they should live their lives when [Gore, DiCaprio & Obama] don't follow it themselves. & they are rewarding their friends with big lucrative contracts'

So no matter what happens –it proves man-made global warming is for real'

Europe In The Deep Freeze

Korea: Extreme Cold Temperatures Nation-wide on Lunar New Year

'The reality is, the flattening of the Global OHC anomaly data was not anticipated by those who created the models'

Plimer: 'If we have dangerous warming and the global temperature has increased by 0.8°C since the Little Ice Age, does this mean that the ideal temperature for life on Earth is that of the Little Ice Age?' -- 'During the Little Ice Age, people died like flies and it was really not a good time to be on Earth. Besides the cold, there were crop failures, famine, cannibalism and disease'

'Al [Gore], James [Hansen] and Kevin [Trenberth] are headed to the Antarctic summer, to showcase melting winter ice. Temperatures in Antarctica have been consistently running about 10C below normal for several weeks' (For more on 'Gore Effect' see here.)

'London-based Barclays determined the US carbon market, currently comprised of a handful of states, is too small to justify the expense of a dedicated trading desk in New York...Barclays was a major player in US greenhouse-gas trading programs on the East and West coasts and remains active in Europe's carbon market, the largest in the world...'That is not good news for carbon-dioxide trading, especially not in the US'

Flashback 2010: Demoted: UN officially throws global warming under the bus: UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'

Demoted: UN officially throws global warming under the bus: UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'

Obama's 'green robber barons': 'Bankrupt Beacon Power, fat Democratic coffers. This green energy storage plant filed for bankruptcy last fall after a $43 million injection of Obama Department of Energy loan guarantees. Federal election record filings show that CEO William Capp contributed to the 2008 Obama campaign... Beacon Power lobbyist Steve Wolfe was a former aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy'

Flashback: CBS News: 11 More Solyndras In Obama Energy Program: 'Counted 12 clean energy companies that are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance'

'The U.S. Dept. of Energy's Energy Information Administration said it expected a cumulative increase in U.S. natural gas production through 2035. 'This primarily reflects increased shale gas production resulting from the application of recent technological advances,' the EIA said in its forecast for 2012'

'Utilities already had announced plans to close more than two dozen coal-fired power plants, due to new EPA rules...On Thursday, the list was expanded...new EPA rules are forcing closure of six coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland...At some point - very soon - damage caused by Obama's war on coal will be irreversible'

'Normal solar cycles are 11 years long, but the current one (cycle 24) is shaping up to be 17 years (unusually long), and using historical data from the US, David predicts a 2.1°C decline over Solar Cycle 24 followed by a further 2.8°C over Solar Cycle 25. That adds up to a whopping 4.9°C fall in temperate latitudes over the next 20 years. We can only hope he's wrong'

Flashback 2010: Fmr. GM executive Bob Lutz called global warming a 'crock of sh*t'

'The sex trade is happening due to thousands of victims in need of natural resources like food, water and trees...The livelihoods of most families that live in rural villages are affected by the changes brought on by climate change in that area. According to UN, women feel these affects the most. UN's UNEP reports that, 'Lifestyle and well being of women is put in greater danger by climate change, associated with a high rate of human trafficking'

'For as much as Obama complains about the bad economy that he inherited, he sure seems to be enjoying the inherited boom in U.S. oil and gas production on private and state lands'