Because he doesn't believe that CO2 will kill us all?: "John Tierney IS the country’s worst science writer, not Gregg Easterbrook"

As long as Tierney has a “science” column at the NYT, it cannot be considered a great newspaper.

Wind Watch: Storm damages wind turbine

...The wind turbines had been shut down due to high wind earlier in the day.

Danni Sabota, from the company’s communication department in Houston said the turbines at Norway and West Cape were shut down around 11 a.m. Monday and were not manually turned back on until Tuesday afternoon.

Santa's allegedly an alarmist

Question: What is your opinion on global warming?

Santa: Santa supports all environmentally friendly initiatives, especially those that keep his home from melting.

DNR officials in three states grappling with why herd estimates were too high

Lou Cornicelli, big-game director for Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources, said he's hearing from many unhappy hunters.

"One guy accused me of going on a deer jihad," Cornicelli said.

His counterparts, Keith Warnke of the Wisconsin DNR and Rod Klute of the Michigan DNR, hear similar accusations. All three concede deer herds weren't as large as they believed in early fall. They won't, however, speculate about the shortfalls until analyzing all harvest data from their states' gun, archery and muzzleloading hunts.

Even so, one likely factor was lower fawn and yearling survival because of harsh conditions last winter. If fewer deer from those groups show up in harvest data, it probably means more yearlings died last winter than expected and more fawns died soon after being born in May and June.