Well, Duh | Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch

Today’s News & Observer of Raleigh (one of McClatchy’s tanking newspapers) reports that one of North Carolina’s two investor-owned utilities, Progress Energy (Duke Energy is the other major one), has announced that it will not be able to meet renewable portfolio standard mandates enacted by the state a couple of years ago...

PROMISES, PROMISES: House fails to zero out carbon

Meanwhile, the House's failed experiment has become a leading example for critics of carbon offsets.

In a hearing last week on the role of carbon offsets in future climate legislation, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, couldn't resist a mention.

"I'm sure you know that the congressional purchase of offsets that Speaker Pelosi initiated several years ago has been suspended for the very reason that they can't guarantee that the offsets are really what they appear to be," Barton said.

EU Referendum: Brainwashed

This is a current GCSE question (click to enlarge), from the physics paper. You don't pass unless you are a believer. If you don't believe, of course, you are mentally deranged.

The evil of the examination paper is, unfortunately, all too obvious. How can a child possibly dissent when their future career prospects are intimately bound up in accepting the propaganda?

AGW alarmism in school classrooms is child abuse

Of course we want our children to become responsible citizens, avoiding unnecessary waste and pollution. But do we want them to become evangelical carbon cops at home?

Are children being presented with both sides of the debate? Are they being taught how to question and think for themselves? Or are they being indoctrinated with a (Green) religion masquerading as science? What are the future implications of this for real science? Dr. D. Weston Allen