President Obama's grassroots campaign group has opened a campaign to belittle House Speaker John Boehner and GOP global warming critics, describing the climate change "deniers" as crazy, tin foil hat wearing believers in unicorns.

In three successive emails to supporters, Jim Messina, Obama's reelection campaign manager who now runs the president's Organizing for Action operation, portrayed Boehner and other Republican leaders as far out of step with the science of global warming, a harsh approach that is spoiling chances of a compromise on the issue.

Being a good mother.This Sunday is Mother's Day here in the United States so posting will be lighter than usual. From a news standpoint, though, it's been a busy week. From Benghazi-gate to the Cleveland kidnappers to Obama's Organizing for Action memo calling global-warming skeptics "crazy" purveyors of "far-fetched conspiracy theories."

Not to mention the lazy, hazy, predictions we keep hearing from the should-be-defunct NASA and NOAA. Now it’s your turn to introduce topics, rebuttals, and questions for discussion.

Britain must abandon its bias towards green policies or face an energy crisis, a key parliamentary adviser has warned. Peter Lilley, a member of the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Advisory board, has warned that the UK's hesitance to embrace shale gas comes at great expense to the country. He claims that the green lobby is in control of the Department for Energy, dominates the EU and is institutionalised in Whitehall via the Climate Change Committee. He also accuses them of deploying "scare stories with reckless disregard for the truth" on a scale comparable to the MMR scare. --Amy Willis, The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2013

The scandal of official reluctance to develop Britain’s shale gas potential is at last beginning to surface. It may prove to be the dress rehearsal for the ultimate drama — the inexorable collapse of our whole energy strategy. The battle over shale gas is only the prelude to the impending energy crisis if we continue to pursue the government decarbonisation agenda. Greens in and out of government imagine that if shale gas can be kept in the ground or little is recoverable, decarbonising the British economy will be plain sailing. As imported gas becomes ever more expensive, the alternatives will grow cheaper by comparison. –Peter Lilley, The Spectator, 9 May 2013

 Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world's most important scientist.   He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine.  That doctrine has always been dubious and is often defended by attacking the integrity of anyone who dares to raise questions.  Spencer is a rare combination of a brilliant scientist and a brave soul willing to risk his livelihood and reputation by speaking plainly.

The global warming promoters say we must scrap the world's energy infrastructure in favor of green energy.  They say that burning coal, oil and natural gas adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and that will cause a global warming disaster.  The global warming believers demand a massive investment in uneconomic windmills and solar energy.  Their demands are not exactly sincere, because their program is a utopian fantasy that will never be implemented on the scale needed to achieve the ostensible objectives. 

In typical turn-the-table strategy President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action team has set the unicorns loose on global warming.

In a generic email to ‘Friend’, Ivan Frishberg, Climate Campaign Manager for Organizing for Action gets creative in the email subject line: “Unicorns exist**”

“If I said to you: “Unicorns exist, I totally just saw one galloping down the street,” most likely you’d give me a sad look and get on with your day,” Frishberg wrote.  “But what if House Speaker Boehner and the chairman of the House Science Committee said they didn’t know if the science behind climate change was real.  (Yeah.  That actually happened).”

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, and such is certainly the case coming out of San Jose State University, where two environmentalist professors took a match to an anti-global warming book – plus a photo of their little exercise - leaving an image that clearly illustrates the state of science-based academic freedom on college campuses nationwide.

The image appeared on the university’s official Department of Meteorology and Climate Science webpage, no less.

The academics who took flame to page are Dr. Alison Bridger, chairwoman of the university’s meteorology department, as well as Assistant Professor Craig Clements. The offending book? The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania.

Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. While global warming activists attempt to spin a narrative of ever-worsening weather, the objective facts tell a completely different story.

New Records for Lack of Tornadoes

New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show the past 12 months set a record for the fewest tornadoes in recorded history. Not only did Mother Nature just set a record for lack of tornado activity, she absolutely shattered the previous record for fewest tornadoes in a 12-month period. During the past 12 months, merely 197 tornadoes struck the United States. Prior to this past year, the fewest tornadoes striking the United States during a 12-month period occurred from June 1991 through July 1992, when 247 tornadoes occurred.

EU leaders will grapple with controversial issues including shale gas development and climate change mitigation at an energy summit on 22 May, documents obtained by EurActiv show. As agreed at the 14-15 March summit, EU leaders will meet to discuss how to lower energy prices and so improve the Union’s industrial competitiveness. Competitiveness, in the EU energy policy context, translates into a re-thinking of the Union’s climate policies. Recently, the powerful employers’ group BusinessEurope called on European Commission President José Manuel Barroso to radically shift the EU’s energy policy away from climate change mitigation towards cost-competitiveness and security of supply. --EurActiv, 8 May 2013

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher - WikimediaIf you believe in man-made climate change — and think the nation’s unemployment rate truly has fallen to 7.5 percent — then Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has a bridge to sell you.

At a Tuesday-morning House hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the outspoken Mr. Rohrabacher, California Republican, took aim at environmentalists’ claims that mankind is fueling global warming by continuing to use fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.

A new paper published in Environmental Research Letters finds that current climate models are not able to predict regional, seasonal temperature and precipitation changes and have huge "mean errors between 1 and 18 °C." Therefore, according to the authors, the models are especially unable to predict the impacts of regional temperature and precipitation changes.

According to the authors, "no single [climate model] matches observations in more than 30% of the areas for monthly precipitation and wet-day frequency, 50% for diurnal range and 70% for mean temperatures." The majority of the IPCC AR4 report discusses the alleged regional impacts of climate change based on these same models, but according to the authors, the models won't be ready to predict the impacts of climate change for another 5 to 50 years, stating, "we estimate that at least 5–30 years of [computer modeling research] is required to improve regional temperature simulations and at least 30–50 years for precipitation simulations, for these to be directly input into impact models."