UK: Eco soundings from the people who are going to control the world's climate - The Guardian

Flying start

The government has just 11 years to deliver on the ambitious renewable energy and climate change targets, so everyone was delighted when the Department of Energy and Climate Change was set up five months ago as "a joined-up department working on energy and climate change". Oh yes? Eco Soundings phoned DECC last week and eventually got through to a person who answered: "Department for, er, energy and climate control". From there we were passed to someone else who said "Hello, department for business", who passed us on to a recorded message which started "If you want to report a dead bird, press one ..."

Alarmist journalist Tom Yulsman: CLIMATE EXTREMIST SAVAGELY ATTACKS NYT’S REVKIN | CEJournal

In my opinion, Revkin did err in equating Will’s column to Gore’s speech. The column is untrue almost in its entirety. Meanwhile, the speech did contain one significant error but was meticulously supported and scientifically defensible overall. Romm’s attack, however, in both tone and substance, is simply beyond the pale.

I guess he hasn’t yet gotten the message that the Clinton era, with its hyper-partisan politics of personal destruction, has given way — thank goodness! — to the Obama era, where a new tone of civility and respect is struggling to take hold. Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy during the Clinton Administration, and perhaps the bitterness of that experience still lingers.