This was a pretty cool speech by the Governator.

Quoted: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) at Newsweek's Environmental Conference
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) is the keynote speaker at Newsweek's Global Environmental Leadership Conference. He is expected to discuss California's program, which relies on renewable energy to reduce emission levels. The conference is tied to Newsweek's April 16 Leadership & Environment issue.

Quoted: First, global warming lacks a mustache. No, really. We are social mammals whose brains are highly specialized for thinking about others. Understanding what others are up to — what they know and want, what they are doing and planning — has been so crucial to the survival of our species that our brains have developed an obsession with all things human. We think about people and their intentions; talk about them; look for and remember them.

Quoted: Sir Richard Branson and Al Gore have joined forces to provide a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a workable way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Quoted: Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution.

Quoted: A top U.S. government scientist, Susan Solomon, said "there can be no question that the increase in greenhouse gases are dominated by human activities."

Hey Eric (Elofson)! It's Fedwizzy!

Quoted: "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

NPR Southern California KPCC is doing a special on Climate Change and especially in California, and what it means to Californians. It sounds like they are taking this very seriously, California recently became the first U.S. state to cap greenhouse gases.

Quoted: The early signs of climate change are showing up across vastly differing landscapes: from melting outposts near the Arctic Circle to disappearing glaciers high in the Andes; from the rising water in the deltas of Bangladesh to the "sinking" atolls of the Pacific. Reports from a Warming Planet takes you to parts of the planet where global warming is already making changes to life and landscape, and demonstrates how climate change is no longer restricted to scientific modeling about the future. It's happening now.

Oh Shell, are you buying into this global warming conspiracy too?

Quoted: "We have to deal with greenhouse gases," John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., said in a recent speech at the National Press Club. "From Shell's point of view, the debate is over. When 98 percent of scientists agree, who is Shell to say, 'Let's debate the science'?"

Yeah Ballard!

Quoted: A small town in England has gained attention in its effort to become the first carbon-neutral village in that country. According to the Ashton Hayes Web site, residents reduced their carbon emissions just by installing energy-efficient light bulbs, using their dryers and other appliances less and insulating their attics.

booya Richard Lindzen

Quoted: In some ways Lindzen's thinking on the climate change issue has not changed much since 1999, as can be seen in an older rebuttal of his position by Jim Hansen (scroll down to Table 1). However, he does seem to have become convinced that the 20th Century warming is real. What is interesting about the comparison between then and now, is that Hansen made two appeals to the data gathering community to test a) whether water vapour feedbacks can be observed, and b) whether the ocean heat content is increasing in line with the model predictions. It is quite telling that both of these data analyses have since been made and they confirm Hansen's contentions, not Lindzen's.