Big money and useful idiots

The second point that really bothered me was the supposition that climate change is a strategy being employed by this group to obtain even more of our money. We environmentalists have been fighting Corporate America tooth-and-nail for over 30 years trying to get this nation and the world moving in a more sustainable direction. For every "win", we have tons of losses. Consequently, the argument that big money is behind the climate change movement strikes me as preposterous!

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Biomass energy 'could be harmful'

Biomass power - such as burning wood for energy - could do more harm than good in the battle to reduce greenhouse gases, the Environment Agency warns.

Ploughing up pasture to plant energy crops could produce more CO2 by 2030 than burning fossil fuels, if not done in a sustainable way, it said.

Will April be the 100th Warmest On Record? « Watts Up With That?

NOAA monthly weather summaries normally describe the month in terms of their warmness ranking. April is looking like an interesting month, with remarkably consistent cold across the entire US. Much of the center of the country has been 2 to 6 degrees below normal. In parts of the Dakotas, 10 or more degrees below normal.

Watching the 2007 historic low sea ice flow out of the Arctic Sea « Watts Up With That?

While indeed we can watch some of the Arctic sea “melt in place” during this animation in the fall of 2007, we can also see that winds and currents are a signifcant contributor to breaking up the sea ice and transporting it to warmer latitudes.