The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy Theory — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

His blog’s slogan states that ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts’. But Kleiman just makes his own ‘facts’ up while accusing others of ‘denial’. We’ve pointed this sort of thing out often enough that we no longer believe this is just a mistake, or mere hyperbole. This is a phenomenon far more widespread that ‘denial’. This kind of argument is rife amongst people who seem to feel the need to explain their lack of success in convincing the world of their politics. Blame the conspiracy.

Lawrence Solomon: The dirty truth - FP Comment

...a typical coal plant employing carbon capture technology requires between 24% and 50% more energy for every kilowatt-hour produced. [Via Heliogenic Climate Change]

Timothy Birdnow » How to Lose 193,000 miles of Ice

We have wars, terrorists, rogue nations with nuclear weapons, penicillin-resistant diseases, chemical weapons, biological weapons which may include plague and even smallpox, we have the spectre of total economic collapse through a spending spree of a trillion bucks, etc. Do we really need to worry about a computer game played by some over-funded geeks?