Protest group Rising Tide urges environmental movement to go feral | NSW/ACT | News.com.au

PEOPLE are being urged to break into shops, "disable" four wheel drives and throw pies at people by an extreme environmental group being promoted by the NSW Greens.

Jennifer Marohasy » An Organised Crisis: Notes from Steven Hayward

Experts attending a professional conference in Europe, when presented with data from a speaker showing steadily declining air pollution trends along with the claim, “everyone knows that air pollution levels are continually decreasing everywhere.” “I looked around the room” …

I was not the only non-expert there. Most of my other colleagues were also not atmospheric or air pollution scientists. Later I asked one of them, a close friend, if he had known that air pollution levels were constantly decreasing throughout Europe and the United States on a yearly basis. “I had no idea,” he said. It was certainly news to me. Even though I was a professor of environmental health and had been actively involved in many aspects of pollution research for many years, that simple fact had somehow escaped me…. I had certainly never seen it published in the media.

Robert Bryce on James Hansen’s Anti-Coal Crusade (worth reading Sunday) — MasterResource

Check out Bryce’s website. Go hear him give a speech somewhere. Try to arrange a debate between Robert and an energy/climate alarmist in your city or town–and be sure to get out the crowd. That might be the best way for energy realism to triumph over energy hyperbole. The good guys and gals are winning intellectually; now is to time to begin winning politically.

Are depressions “green”? — MasterResource

It strains credulity to claim that diverting capital and labor from, e.g., the coal industry to the wind industry will create a macroeconomic benefit, or that economy recovery can be built on jobs and industries that depended heavily on subsidies, tax preferences, and mandates even in prosperous times.