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Veepstakes

One alarmist on the ticket — and Sen. McCain is certainly that, as is Gov. Pawlenty, even if he seems to do it more as an image thing (which can't be said for McCain) — and the Republican base can probably hold their nose and pull the lever. But two of them, in my opinion, would cause an appreciable number of those voters to choke.

The Carbon Curtain - Forbes.com

So does the climate computer have a real audience, or is it really just another bag lady muttering away to herself in a lonely corner of the intellectual park? That the computer is heard in Hollywood, Stockholm, Brussels and even some parts of Washington is quite beside the point--they have far less global power and influence than they vainly imagine. Vinod Dar is right: "Contingency planning should entail strategic responses to a warming globe, a cooling globe and a globe whose climate reverberates with laughter at human hubris."

Planet Gore on National Review Online

The dust-up between Noel Sheppard and the humorless Gavin Schmidt continues.

Noel has the latest over at NewsBusters. Kevin Williamson covered the first round over on the Media Blog.