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UNITED NATIONS - It took a while for the United Nations to acknowledge errors by its Nobel-prize winning climate panel and order an independent review. But the study will not tackle past mistakes and probably will not change the minds of skeptics or Americans in a Luddite mode — despite overwhelming evidence from an overwhelming number of scientists that global warming is largely man-made. After ignoring negative disclosures, a spokesman for the U.N.

The Huffington Post’s William Petrocelli recently recounted meeting Al Gore at a signing for Gore’s new book on climate change, Our Choice . The two men discussed why Gore had written and included a poem in the book. Apparently, when Gore’s editor said no to a chapter of doom and gloom predictions, the dogged former VP decided, instead, to distill the potentially disastrous repercussions of global warming into verse. Gore reportedly first joked to his editor that William Butler Yeats had written the resulting poem, and the choice is fitting.

::: As you probably recall, funding for volcano monitoring was one of the top reasons that Bobby Jindal opposed the stimulus bill. Now, as Sarah Palin tries to one-up Bobby Jindal in the “I want the 2012 GOP nomination so I’ll reject the stimulus” game, a volcano in Alaska is conspiring to mock them both: Alaska volcano Mount Redoubt erupts 6 times WILLOW, Alaska – Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano’s first emissions in nearly 20 years.