Archie Bunker’s Take « The Air Vent

Don’t forget that the same solutions were the answer then. Less energy, conservation and absolutely no nuclear.

Alarmist criticizes Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann for her refusal to drink the global warming Kool-Aid

(Madame DeFarge of the Dells was categorically denying the existence of global warming, blaming melting icecaps not on human interference, but on various "natural" conditions, such as sun spots, plagues of locusts and God's wrath.)

Mitchell Taylor, manager of wildlife research for the Nunavut government, on polar bear propaganda

Climate does change naturally, and historically the range of polar bears and their numbers must also be dynamic. The IPCC climate models predict a 30% reduction of sea ice (annual coverage) at CO2 greenhouse effect saturation. I have managed to alienate most of my colleagues by pointing out that a loss of 30% of sea ice would not cause polar bears to go extinct. Arctic warming does not appear to be caused by CO2, and even if the CO2 models were entirely correct polar bears would not be threatened with extinction.

Obviously the discussion is about something else.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Chicago shocker: Tries to meet 20% renewables commitment with 20-year-old rip-offsets

So what exactly is the city of Chicago wasting its citizens’ money on? Good old-fashioned rip-offsets — in this case, emphasis on the word “old”