Welcome to the Global Warming Myth round-up, the first for 2009. I’m going to go ahead and assume that our friend The Daily Bayonet is still enjoying time with his visiting family, so I’ve put together the best-of-the-best for this week’s review.

Send your best wishes over to Klockarman, who broke his arm earlier this week. I hear he’s going to hunt and peck out blog posts with five fingers and an elbow now. Have a speedy recovery!

Now, on with the review:

• Composting saves the planet, right? Wrong. The worms used in compost heaps emit a greenhouse gas far more powerful that carbon dioxide. Let’s all just go back to burning our trash, you know, like we did back in the ‘70s.
• On a tip from Tom Nelson: Washington state will have to close over a dozen state parks due to budget constraints, but as $25 million to spend on solar panels for prisons.
• Thomas over at Climate Change Fraud tells us why subsidizing nations like India, China and Brazil to cut greenhouse gas emissions is delusional.
• Christopher Booker delivers the eulogy for global warming. So many climate change predictions in 2008. So many of them failed.
• Heliogenic Climate Change found out that Britain only has one year left to prevent dormice and house sparrows from reaching a point of terminal decline. Let’s check up on them this time next year.
• That pesky sea ice just won’t vanish like the plans say it should. Antarctic ice greater in November 2008 than in 1979. Let’s just call that a win for the good guys.
• Did you see this video that’s been on the front page all week? CNN Meteorologist exposes the global warming myth on television.
• The planet is slowing down, and some are blaming it on all that pesky carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases stuck in the atmosphere. We had to add a leap second this year, but the question has to be asked: how much of that can be blamed on the SUV?
• Plan on saving money by purchasing that fuel-efficient or hybrid vehicle. You won’t.
• Japan’s government is so desperate to cut their greenhouse emissions that they’re paying their citizens loads to install them.
• Check out the Kyoto Files, part four for this week. Tony continues to take us through the baloney that is the Kyoto Protocol.
• Physicists are bringing some common sense to the global warming debate.
• Got a green thumb? Are you green with envy? Can you spell green? You may be entitled to some of Obama’s stimulus package.
• Bigger government in the Philippines as Manila votes to create a climate change body.
• James Hansen is crying fowl over the NOAA muzzling scientists. But don’t the global alarmists do the same to dissenting opinion?
• Oh those big, bad oil companies. They’re part of the conspiracy, you see. They hate giving up profits so much that they…wait, they’re creating biofuels for jets now? Does this mean we can get back on the big oil payroll, alarmists?
• Dr. Roy Spencer has launched his own blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Dr. Spencer!
• Klockarman discovers that alarmists don’t want The Oregonian to print letters to the editor from skeptics. Skeptics are too snarky, and clever, you see.
• Natural disasters killed over 220,000 in 2008. A good third of them from earthquakes, which aren’t even caused by global warming…yet.
• Want a history lesson on temperature? Look at what has happened in the last 25 years
• Do you hate koalas and polar bears? Good. Because if you question this, you hate them.
• James Hansen has asked the Obama’s to redistribute wealth in America. Can we start with him?

.In lieu of a global warming hottie of the week, I leave you with a global warming skeptic site of the week: A Dog Named Kyoto

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!