A Southern Man don't need him around, anyhow:  Neil Young Record Out Today; fossil-fueled tour coming up

Always topical, apparently Young’s latest album, “was inspired by the changes and challenges happening all around him, with special focus paid to the global economic crisis and climate change.”

Pajamas Media » Memo to Environmentalists: Carbon Production Can Be a Good Thing

A new method of energy production is sending the climate change crowd into an amoral, irrational frenzy.

Because of the climate scam: GE invests more than $200m in three Noble wind farms

Renewable Energy Certificates generated by the three projects are sold to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, helping to achieve the goals established under the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard. The projects benefit from a long-term energy hedge provided by Citigroup Energy, Inc.

Climate Change - by Erl Happ and Carl Wolk | Climate Realists

This paper provides a radical reinterpretation of the dynamics that drive atmospheric temperature in the stratosphere and upper troposphere and how this drives temperature at the surface. It is embarrassingly at odds with mainstream climate science. Nevertheless, I proceed with cautious deliberation.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV - Environmental debate heats up; validity of global warming questioned

The American people deserve a free, honest and balanced discussion of energy issues that will produce an energy policy based upon facts, and free of ideological bias. Fear-mongering and demagoguery have no place in this discussion, but that may be beyond the abilities of the politicians and the media.

James H. “Smokey” Shott, a resident of Bluefield, Va., is a Daily Telegraph columnist.