Endangered agenda: Greens mount ad hominem Amazon attacks against Green Hell « Green Hell Blog

The customer ratings battle over Green Hell offers insight into why Al Gore and the other greens don’t want to debate Steve Milloy or any other opponent of their agenda — ad hominem attacks won’t win many points with an audience.

The Richer-Is-Greener Curve - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

In my Findings column, I explain how researchers have discovered that, over the long term, being richer often translates into being greener. Many environmental problems get worse as a country first industrializes, but once it reaches a certain level of income, the trend often reverses, producing a curve shaped like an upside-down U. It’s called a Kuznets curve (in honor of the economist Simon Kuznets, who detected this pattern in trends of income inequality).

Skeptic's Corner: Genealogical Climatology

Remembering that the U.S. record only goes back to 1860, consider this. If my grandfather were alive he would be turning 100 years old this year. He would have experienced all 10 of the warmest years in U.S. History. However even with that long of record, he would have experienced more than half of the warmest years in his lifetime (6) before he turned 50 years of age in 1959.