American Thinker Blog: How's that transparency in science coming, fellas?

Making carbon a pollutant and subject to the tender regulatory mercies of the EPA is going to add a massive layer of bureaucracy to energy production, thus driving up costs, discouraging innovation, and all the attendant evils that a huge increase in paperwork entails.

Read the rest of Strassel's article on this clear example of hypocrisy by the Obama administration.

The mobius band of climate science

A Mobius band is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. I have always thought this is an obvious metaphor for the current strain of climate science. From the governmental reports, to the opportunists, to the politicians and their staff, to the majority of media and educational institutions, there is but one side to the question of man-made global warming. Let me illustrate with a few examples.

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