Defend green jobs! Smash ungreen jobs! | spiked

Environmentalists’ sudden interest in workers’ rights when the Vestas dispute unfolded was always unconvincing. Normally greens implicitly campaign for people to be thrown out of work.

Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Comments On A New Paper “A Unified Modeling Approach to Climate System Prediction” By Hurrell Et Al 2009

This is an amazing admission. If “quantifying prediction skill becomes even more difficult” for decadal and longer time scales and that “we have no current method to prioritize or weight their impact in measuring uncertainty in predicting future climate change for temperature, precipitation, soil moisture and other variables of critical interest to society”, how is the proposed modeling approach to satisfy the “[d]emand for more accurate predictions of regional climate” as written by the authors in their abstract?

Will Russia Drill Off Florida's Coast?

Energy: As Russian attack submarines patrol our eastern seaboard, Moscow signs a deal to help Castro's Cuba drill for oil off the Florida coast. In Moscow and Havana, the cry is "Drill, Comrade, Drill!"

Flashback - Castro: Climate Change Is More Serious Than Financial Crisis

HAVANA – Former Cuban President Fidel Castro says that climate change is more serious than the international economic crisis that is the main subject of Thursday’s G-20 summit in London.
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He added that while the Antarctic ice cap is melting at a faster rate, the skeptics are crying that “the scientists are exaggerating” and continue to dream “such feeble hopes.”