Hot Air » Blog Archive » Peterson: I don’t talk to my constituents because they’re nuts

Somehow I doubt that a full quarter of Peterson’s constituents are Truthers, or even ten percent. However, what if they were? Doesn’t Peterson have some responsibility to talk to his constituents to dispel those paranoid conspiracy theories? More to the point, Peterson should be answerable to his constituents, but I suspect that his reluctance to face them now has more to do with Peterson’s support of Obama’s agenda on cap-and-trade than it does with him being frightened away by conspiracy theorists.

Warm Weather and Prosperity | Climate Skeptic

I read a lot of history, and take a number of history courses (both on tape and live). Its so funny when the professor gets to these events, because she/he always has to preface his remarks with “I know you have been tought that warming is universally bad, but…”

Edward Ring » The Prosperity Choice

Prosperity is indeed a choice, and to achieve global prosperity there are indeed competing versions of environmentalism. The mainstream environmentalist vision is to effectively ration fossil fuel in order to accelerate development of alternatives to fossil fuel, at the same time as this vision allegedly attempts to mitigate the allegedly harmful effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. And this mainstream environmentalist vision, please recall, also opposes nuclear power, genetically modified crops or biochemical feedstocks, hydroelectric power, and even imposes crippling lawsuits and regulatory barriers to establishment of solar and wind energy.

FuturePundit: Germans To Pay Much For Offshore Wind Power

The German government had to increase the payment to offshore wind operators in order to get enough investors to put up money to build offshore wind farms. Opposition to closer offshore facilities forced the wind farms into deeper water which drove up costs.