Friday, April 10, 2009

Romm's unhappy again: "In a stunning journalistic lapse, the NY Times gives credulous coverage to Swift Boat smearer Marc Morano, the Jayson Blair of global warming"
Apparently the NYT felt a Magazine cover story pushing the pseudoscience of Freeman Dyson was not enough free publicity for the dwindling minority desperately trying to persuade humanity not to act in time to save itself from catastrophic climate impacts.
Was 2007 Arctic ice really a historic minimum? « Watts Up With That?
Looking at timelines of arctic exploration, we find that virtually nobody went there during the 30s and early 40s, despite that correlating with the warmest temperatures on record (great Depression, WW II, go figure). Attached is an account of an arctic naval expedition (Operation Nanook) that took place the summer of 1946, just after WWII. Vinther, et al (1) reports the merged JJA monthly temps were in the 7.3 to 7.4 deg C range in Greenland between 1931 and 1950. In the 1990s, it was a full degree C lower. The “norm” for Thule in JJA runs somewhere around 4 - 5 deg C (1961 to current data).
Residual Forces » Blog Archive » Bachmann Cap & Trade Townhall At SCSU - Video
Here’s the video of the Q&A with Chris Horner from Congresswoman Bachmann’s SCSU Cap & Trade - Climate Change Townhall today. My liveblog/post can be found here.
Investor's Business Daily -- Put Cap-And-Trade In The Trunk, Where It Can't Cause Any Trouble
That being the case, it's important to ask: Where will the needed reductions come from?

If the White House and Congress are unable to provide a clear and convincing answer, the policy simply is not ready to pass.

The current economic pain that we are experiencing and the good intentions that contributed to it should be a lesson to tread more carefully and — every so often — to take a good look under the hood.
Planet saved. Greens get coffee | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Green blogger Graham Readfearn solves the ghastly dilemma that keeps fashionable greens awake at night - how to have your barrista serve you a takeaway coffee without killing the planet stone dead.

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