Researcher Condemns Conformity Among His Peers - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

If the brightest minds on Wall Street got suckered by group-think into believing house prices would never fall, what other policies founded on consensus wisdom could be waiting to come unraveled? Global warming, you say? You mean it might be harder to model climate change 20 years ahead than house prices 5 years ahead? Surely not – how could so many climatologists be wrong?

What’s wrong with consensuses is not the establishment of a majority view, which is necessary and legitimate, but the silencing of skeptics. “We still have whole domains we can’t talk about,” Dr. Bouchard said, referring to the psychology of differences between races and sexes.

Senator John Kerry at National Press Club Luncheon on July 29

His speech, "America and China on the Road to Copenhagen: Toward a Climate Change Partnership" will highlight the challenges of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where two of the world's largest emitters, the United States and China, head toward the December make-or-break forum on the world's efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Chairman Kerry returned from a recent visit to China earlier this year more convinced than ever that significant cooperation is possible and must be vigorously pursued.

[Because of climate fraud, thousands of aluminum workers could lose their jobs]

THOUSANDS of jobs in the Hunter's aluminium industry are at risk in the Federal Government's fight against climate change.

Tomago Aluminium chief Andre Martel said the Government's carbon-trading and renewable energy policies would cost his smelter $125 million a year by 2020, which was more than the $110 million a year it was spending on wages and salaries for 1200 people.