CNBC European Business | The True 
Cost Of Kyoto

Bjørn Lomborg, controversial author of The Sceptical Environmentalist, asserts that 
dealing with climate change must arise from a level-headed debate about costs and benefits
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This year, nations will send emissaries to Denmark to negotiate the successor to the Kyoto Protocol. These diplomats will attract a travelling circus of lobbyists, activists and the media. Many will campaign for the next world agreement on carbon emission cuts to go much further than the last. This would be a monumental mistake, an immoral waste of resources, and a lousy way to battle the problem of man-made climate change.

Concise Conservatism: Global Warming: Unscientific Science and the Assault on Personal Freedoms

Our world is in the midst of a global propaganda effort. The climate change issue is in reality, large-scale effort on the part of government and government-lovers to deliberately create a sense of panic over something as natural as the change of the seasons, or the sunrise. We as citizens are being told by those in the media and in public office, “You have no reason, and no right to question us on this issue.” We are being told that the final verdict is in, that there is universal consensus, that every scientist on the planet is in agreement that the earth is burning up as a result of human activity. As Americans, we sometimes take our freedoms for granted, and thus we fail to exercise them. We must, on this issue and every issue, question the vocal majority. No one should consider himself free-willed if he accepts as fact those ideas fed to him through the news media, Washington, and Hollywood. Was the majority correct when they said the earth was not spherical? Was Galileo wrong to question the authorities, even at the expense of his freedom? Everyone who accepts the propaganda being handed to them on this issue must question whether he or she is truly a freethinking individual. We each have a chance to emulate Galileo and other uncompromising thinkers. We have no desire to tell you what to think, but to merely encourage you to think. We will urge you, unlike those on the opposing side, to research everything we say, to verify its accuracy. That is the difference between us and those who preach the global warming orthodoxy. The following is an exploration of facts, which will hopefully lead you to question what you hear, and truly think about this issue.

Flat-screen TVs to face energy-efficiency rules in California - Los Angeles Times

Starting in 2011, state regulators want retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient models of power hungry LCD and plasma sets. The industry opposes the new rules and warns of higher prices.