Science or Garbage? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

...the students are being taught that saving resources is more important than saving human time, and that recycling is such a righteous activity that it deserves to continue even when it costs money and time to do it. That may be a popular belief, but that’s all it is, a belief.
I’ve always thought of recycling as essentially a religious sacrament –a fine activity if pursued voluntarily, but not something that should be mandated or taught in public schools.

Double non-AGW Whammy on the International Herald Tribune « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

In other words, the first consequence of “environmental legislation on carbon emissions” has been rewarding the polluters, whole industries that frankly emit much more dangerous stuff than CO2.

Sadly, and paradoxically, little or no lesson has been learned. We are still hearing of “lofty goals”, that will be manipulated of course by the same polluters.

Looks even more lucrative than smuggling drugs, doesn’t it? And it doesn’t land you in jail…

Maryland - Unseasonable chill prompts cold weather shelter into early opening

CUMBERLAND — The emergency cold weather shelter at the Union Rescue Mission has opened nearly a month early due to the unseasonably cold weather.