Ian Plimer - Creating catastrophe

If our climate catastrophists want to twiddle the dials and stop climate change, they need to play God and change radiation in the galaxy, the Sun, the Earth’s orbit, tidal cycles and plate tectonics. Once they have mastered volcanoes, then we can let them loose on climate change. In the interim, science and our great institutions are greatly damaged by the politicisation of science, the demonising of dissent and ad hominem attacks on matters of science.

[Bureaucrats blow more of your money on climate fraud] - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The Department of Energy announced $27.6 million in research grants on Monday, for projects designed to simulate the underground storage of carbon dioxide.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cash for Clunkers, RIP: A waste of money and assets

Three billion dollars may not be the biggest boondoggle ever to come out of Washington, but it’s easily the dumbest — and one of the most incompetently handled.

ClimatePolicy » Blog Archive » A Healthy Way to Travel

If exercise based transportation were adopted by the population as a whole, this rate of weight loss is sufficient to eliminate obese and overweight conditions in a few years without dangerous or draconian diet plans.

The Governor of Minnesota's Bizarre Climate Change 360 : TreeHugger

This seems to me like a pretty cut and dried case of political maneuvering, here--Pawlenty has seen how the climate bill has failed to gain overwhelming nationwide support, how it's getting pushed to the backburner in the Senate, and perhaps has seen the field narrow for prospective Republican presidential candidates in 2012 (Palin's out, Jindal's out). He's seen that snubbing climate action won't lose him mass moderate support, and will secure him support from the far right base. Which is too bad; he really was doing some of the best work in statewide energy reform and climate action of any politician, period--before this climate change 360.