Environment minister Jairam Ramesh asserted on Sunday in the presence of visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton that India would never take legally binding commitments to cut down on emissions.

“India’s position is clear and categorical that we are simply not in a position to take any legally binding emissions reductions,” Ramesh said at conference on climate change he addressed along with the visiting secretary of state to mark the opening of ITC’s Green Centre building in Gurgaon.

His remarks came against the backdrop of growing pressure on India and China from the US-led bloc of developed countries to take quantifiable targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alluded to the growing US insistence that India relent on its stand not to accept targets.

Ramesh drew the red lines clearly. “There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have been among the lowest emitters per capita, face to reduce emissions. And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours.”

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Little Green Footballs has a post about the paper submitted to the American Physical Society by Christopher Monckton, debunking many of the arguments advanced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Fearful of losing political and financial support, the APS hurriedly inserted this statement on the front page of its website. Read more >

John Stossel demolished the prophet of climate change, on his 20/20 show. Stossel must have read the book and you should too, if you are interested in discovering the truth about Al Gore’s get filthy rich quick scheme. Read more >

John McCain wants to cure global warming. Somebody should advise him to say “climate change”. That way he will not sound foolish when the streets look like this.

Sure, anybody can control temperatures inside, but what about outside? Outside is much bigger than inside and many people spend at least part of their day there. Temperature change outside can inconvenience millions of people. Women, minorities, and the poor are hit particularly hard. Politicians have been ignoring the phenomena, pretending that it does not exist, even though temperature change is settled science. Pretty much all scientists agree that temperature change is real. There is a consensus, except for Joe Sacrilege, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Rio Linda University. Crazy Joe, as his friends call him, is a temperature change denier.

Since each degree of global temperature change inflicts a measurable amount of suffering, we have decided to organize the Foundation Against Temperature Change Outside (FATCO). The goal of the Foundation will be to increase the level of awareness of temperature change and take concrete steps to reduce temperature change by one degree every ten years. FATCO will establish a temperature change misery index, modeled after the Jimmy Carter misery index. The index will show people at a glance the degree of suffering they will experience if they step outside. Some FATCO insiders have suggested that the index should be called “thermometer”. Perhaps, we’ll see.
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Rush Limbaugh has been arguing for some time that the Goracle and his acolytes care nothing about the environment. What they care about is more government and preferably more world government. They won’t stop until we all accept the European Union’s specifications for length and circumference of a cucumber.

Rush, of course, is right.

Stopping “climate change” (ha,ha,ha,ha,ha …) justifies every idiocy the Progressives can dream up.

Did Einstein really say that? From The Straight Dope (thanks to Greg): why are the bees disappearing?

Dear Straight Dope:

What in blazes is going on with the world’s bees? I keep reading all these stories about how a significant percentage of the world’s beehives are failing and that all the bees are dying. No one seems to know why, but there are explanations aplenty, ranging from global warming to mites to, of all things, cell phones! What’s worse, some of these stories quote Albert Einstein’s predictions that if the world’s bees were ever to die off, owing to the lack of pollinators, humanity would follow about four years later. Is there anything we can do about this? If the bees all die, are there any substitute pollinators we can use? Or is Einstein right and we’re all doomed? Rich Swank, Orlando, FL.

First they came for the cows. From the Daily Mail: The secret plan to make us all vegetarians.
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