Hot Air » Blog Archive » Just a reminder: Cash for Clunkers requires destroying perfectly usable cars

Rarely do you encounter a wealth-destroying green measure that literally destroys wealth but this is an exception and therefore a sweet, sweet metaphor for Obamanomics. I think some people are under the impression that C4C is just a trade-in program, where the dealer gets to keep the buyer’s old ride and sell it for parts or to a used-car dealer, etc. Not so. The whole point is to get fuel-inefficient vehicles off the road, which means the engines — the most valuable part — have to be destroyed. The Examiner’s Bill Dupray is horrified at the sheer inefficiency of it all

William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » Models, theories, consistency, and truth

Unfortunately for Ekwurzel, while she’s not wrong in her odd claim, global warming theory has not been especially useful for most decision makers (those that make their utility on the basis of temperature and not on the model’s political implications). It is trivial to say that the theory might be eventually useful, and then again it might not. So far, the safe bet has been on not.

Australian Climate Madness: Take a loved icon and put a gun to its head

I hope you are sitting down for this, because it's a veritable smorgasbord of all the worst scaremongering you will ever hear from the Aussie alarmists

EDITOR NOTE: Why cars are good for the environment | Malay Mail Online

Car-hating Greenies who would have us all going back to the days of the horse and buggy have no idea what ruination that would visit upon the Earth and its air quality.