Links fiesta: Climategate, Smart Power, and more!

It’s a busy Wednesday today, so here are some interesting links to keep you amused and informed:

Climategate marches on:

• While the world’s (so-called) leaders meet in Copenhagen to save us from a crisis that doesn’t exist, consider the following:
• How climate alarmists are like hamsters trapped in a cage.
• Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low. Expect things to get colder, in defiance of Al Gore.
• The EPA has declared carbon dioxide a major threat to your health. Scientific truth be damned; this is all about a breathtaking power-grab by the Obama Administration, which is frustrated by resistance from Congress and the American people.
• The Goracle may be a Green poet, but he has a tremendous tin ear.
• Taking a break from her book tour, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pens an article for the Washington Post (But I thought she was irrelevant?) condemning politicized science and asking President Obama to boycott the farce in Copenhagen.
• And all that talk of transferring trillions to developing countries to help them fight global warming? Would you like to buy a bridge, too? Then again, if it crashes the conference, this double-cross would have to be counted a Good Thing(tm).

Smart Power in action:

• Nile Gardiner in The Mail wonders why Barack Obama seems to hate Great Britain and if the “special relationship” can survive. John Steele Gordon calls it gratuitous arrogance. I don’t know. Our President-Messiah did promise us change, after all. He just didn’t mention that would involve trashing a century-old alliance.
• Con Coughlin thinks it’s time Obama learned some manners.
• Don’t worry, Britain, it’s not just you. Our new policy seems to be to hug our enemies and slap our allies. The latest target apparently is Norway, which has just awarded Obama a Nobel Peace Prize (for nothing). Even people who like him get slighted.

Bits and Bobs:

• Almost half of America has presidential buyers-remorse. Must be racists.
• Call it a battle in the cultural jihad. Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that the Swiss ban on minarets for new mosques was justified. I take what she writes very seriously.
• Two million per job? What a steal! Who knew Democratic pollsters were shovel-ready projects?
• Finally, was it a sign of Obama’s coming? What was that weird blue light over Norway last night?

See ya later tonight or tomorrow, folks!