Supreme Court Grows Less Receptive to Environmental Cases - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard five environmental law cases in the term that ended Monday, and environmental groups lost every time. It was, said Richard J. Lazarus, a director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, “the worst term ever” for environmental interests.

Daily Kos: The flaw in the global warming argument

The problem is the strategy. The atmospheric heating problem ("global warming" is a misnomer and the first sign that the argument is not straight) is being put forward as a threat to enforce behavior that should be promoted on its own.
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Conservatives, you see, are authoritarians who think it's their right to give orders and to expect them to be carried out by whoever's subordinate to them. The progressive recognizes that all men have an equal right not to do what someone else wants and to be compensated when he does.

[More global warming alarmists unclear on the concept] - Scotsman.com News

The 37-year-old, who was in the Special Boat Service and has a PhD in astrophysics, and his travelling companion, explorer Craig Matheson from Bo'ness, will paddle 500km around the coast of the country trying to avoid gigantic icebergs and polar bears.

They hope to kayak between 25 and 40km a day through potentially treacherous waters during a three-week trip to highlight the impact of global warming.

The coast around Greenland is dotted with 200ft icebergs that can break up at any time, causing 60ft waves riddled with shards of ice that could prove deadly if the duo's 18ft kayak is in the way.

They will have a shotgun to fend off polar bears, but will only use it as a last resort if banging their pots and pans doesn't scare them off.

"We will be paddling most of the day and we have been preparing in rescue skills on the Forth," said Richard, who has 15-month-old twins. "It is daylight 24 hours a day, but the water is freezing and hypothermia would set in in minutes if one of us fell in. We have high-load kayaks that will carry the five laptops, our tents and equipment and three weeks' worth of food rationing."