Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Obama's Phil Cooney and the New CCSP Report

Imagine if an industry-funded government contractor had a hand in writing a major federal report on climate change. And imagine if that person used his position to misrepresent the science, to cite his own non-peer reviewed work, and to ignore relevant work in the peer-reviewed literature. There would be an outrage, surely . . .

Peter Foster: 300,000 non-deaths - Full Comment

For many True Believers, the important part is to ship funds to developing countries under whatever pretext. Others, such as President Obama, appear to actually believe that there will be economic benefits from massive “green” restrictions and subsidies. But promoting further huge transfers when development-promoting aid has already proved to be such a failure, and adopting fantasies of industrial strategy despite manifests historical evidence of its non-viability, further threatens an already severely weakened global economy. They amount to piling junk political economy atop junk climate science.

Terence Corcoran for Junk Science Week: Decision-based evidence making - FP Comment

So there we have it. Decision and policy first, evidence later. That, in our book, is pure junk science.