The publishers who rejected Plimer’s bestseller | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Professor Ian Plimer‘s Heaven and Earth - a book sceptical of global warming theory - has been an instant bestseller, already selling 20,000 copies in just a fortnight.

Some have wondered how it came to be published by a small Melbourne firm, Connor Court Publishing, and critics (such as the ABC’s Fran Kelly) have hinted that it’s to Plimer’s discredit.

In fact, the discredit belongs entirely to the bigger publishers who turned down the book, so sure of their faith in global warming that they were unable or unwilling to see there was a big market of sceptics desperate to hear the other side of a debate that the mainstream media had insisted for years was “over” and “settled”.

Here is a list of the publishers who turned down Plimer’s book...

Prometheus » Blog Archive » UK Climate [Swindle] Politics: Ed Miliband Replies to Peter Lilley

A few weeks ago I posted up a letter from Peter Lilley, MP to Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change asking some questions about the cost-benefit analysis conducted by the Committee on Climate Change in support of the UK Climate Change Act (which I also discuss here. That letter has been replied to, and you can read it here in PDF.

Legislature drops ball on Crist's renewable energy, vehicle emission goals

Bills in the Florida House and Senate to promote renewable energy and cut back vehicle emissions sputtered and died on the final day of the regular legislative session Friday -- even though Gov. Charlie Crist backed them.

Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain) — MasterResource

Editor Note: Using mainstream models and assumptions, Mr. Knappenberger finds that in the year 2050 with a 83% emissions reduction (the aspirational goal of Waxman-Markey, the beginning steps of which are under vigorous debate), the temperature reduction is nine hundredths of one degree Fahrenheit, or two years of avoided warming. A more realistic climate bill would be a fraction of this amount. The author will respond to technical questions on methodology and results and invites input on alternative scenarios and analyses.

Ed Driscoll » New Silicon Graffiti Video: Beam Me Up, Barry!

As Jim Treacher quipped on Twitter last month, that whole “‘Obama is a megalomaniac’ thing is such a ridiculous right-wing smear. By the way, now he wants to take over the weather.”