Happy Birthday Skeptics Global Warming

On December 15th, Skeptics Global Warming turns one year old. To celebrate, I thought I’d take this week’s opinion piece and look back on the year-that-was on this blog...

Guy who sells X claims that X prevents global warming

Building insulation firms are struggling to get across the message that the cheapest fight against global warming starts at home -- in the roof and walls.

"The benefits are obvious," Eelco van Heel, chief executive of Denmark's Rockwool told Reuters about better building insulation in a phone interview during Dec. 1-12 U.N. climate talks in Poznan, Poland.

"But we are up against many parties who want a piece of the same cake," he said. "Windmills or solar voltaic power are more sexy than insulation that disappears behind the wall."