Friday, August 21, 2009

Climate Observations: Borenstien Sea Surface Temperature Article Is Misleading
To sum up the Borenstein article, it’s factually incorrect in places, and in others, it raises alarmism to ridiculous levels by dwelling on a meaningless statistic, the July SST anomaly of the White Sea.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Pathologies in Climate Science: "There Should be Consequences"
Let me emphasize that the vast majority of climate scientists are decent, hard-working people, and I count very many as very good friends. However the actions of a few cast a dark shadow on the entire community, and this will continue until the community starts to self-police the bad behavior of its most publicly visible voices.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Obama Administration Approves Oil Sands Pipeline
Recently, I pointed to an pending decision by the Obama Administration on whether to approve a pipeline to bring carbon-intensive petroluem to the U.S. from Canadian oil sands. President Obama has approved the pipeline:
Policy Peril Segment 9: Big Business | GlobalWarming.org
Today’s excerpt from CEI’s film Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself rebuts the argument that regulatory climate policies can’t be bad for the economy because so many big businesses support them.

This is an odd argument coming from people who are usually suspicious of big business, or even hostile to corporations. When did they decide that corporate support is some kind of good-housekeeping seal of approval?
Should Renewables Be ‘Made in the U.S.A.’? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Does it make sense for the country to manufacture solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars? Or will renewable-energy manufacturing – mirroring the electronics, semiconductor and car industries – only end up migrating to China and other countries?

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