Political Habitat: Open letter to a mad scientist | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Nothing would please me more for you to be right and for me to be wrong. I'd gladly take the embarrassment in lieu of what is likely to be a prolonged and global natural disaster. But my being wrong doesn't appear to be in the cards.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Just enough of them...

...way too many of you and me (h/t for this summary of the modern environmentalist mindset to P.J. O'Rourke). It used to be that the difference between many of us and the environmentalist is that when we see a person we see a soul, a mind and a set of hands, while the Green sees a stomach.

Now we know they've refined their thinking, and see a carbon footprint.