10000 government ads a day turning Britain into the “ultimate nanny state”

“In 2007/8, campaigns tackled important issues such as giving up smoking, Army recruitment, road safety and climate change. These are of huge social benefit and help generate overall savings to the public purse,” COI’s Deputy CEO Peter Buchanan said.

Obama just plain wrong about North Dakota floods. « Climate Sanity

As for Scientific American, they have no excuse. It was totally irresponsible of them to be completely credulous when Obama linked this flood to global warming. The conditions that lead to flooding in North Dakota have been known for years, as evidenced by the USGS poster. The folks at Scietific American could have done their homework and figured it out just as easily as I did.

Only In It For The Gold: Slicin' and Dicin' with Dyson and Bryson

How this justifies Dyson's incredibly broad-brush attacks on climatology as a whole escapes me. Now climatology is by no means above criticism, but the principles of how the climate system works are understood to a very substantive and sophisticated level. Bryson didn't understand them, and was in no position to admit it. Dyson simply is like all the denial squad, having no real idea that they exist at all.

Say it ain't so: Cargill enters carbon-credit [scam] business - Carbon Offsets Daily

Green Hercules subsidiary aims to be giant in cap-and-trade offsets And you probably thought Cargill Inc. just traded farm commodities.

Cargill, whose 2008 revenues of $120 billion make it one of the world’s largest privately owned companies, is best known as a major player in the world of agribusiness, trading grain and other farm commodities.

But the Minnetonka giant is quietly developing another revenue stream – the burgeoning, and potentially lucrative, business of cap-and-trade carbon offsets.

And as the world’s industries and governments prepares to do battle with global warming, the implications could be huge.