Is America’s Space Agency Adrift? | [Then, they had Armstrong and Aldrin: Now, they've got Jim Hansen and Gavin Schmidt]

NASA’s newly confirmed chief, Charles Bolden, acknowledged last week during a get-acquainted talk with Kennedy Space Center workers that he’s got a big task ahead of him: “Convince the nation that what we do is worthwhile.”

Is Corn Ethanol Cleaner than Crude Oil? - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Maybe it would be easier to just count angels dancing on the head of a pin.

I Love CO2: Genocide-lite: Have one less kid to reduce carbon footprint, says new study

Moving past the junk science-fueled notion of the “carbon footprint” and the discredited population-growth and resource-scarcity fearmongering of the likes of Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich, Western birth rates are already falling precipitously — the U.S. replacement rate is barely at break-even. Having fewer children is tantamount to cultural suicide. Just who would we be saving the planet and its resources for?

The Reference Frame: NYT: a hit piece on Václav Klaus

Sorry, according to the actual legal status quo, the "fight against climate change" is not a central policy but a perverted group opinion of a large group of arrogant people who don't have to be taken seriously.

Would You Buy a Car from this Man? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was on Hardball last night defending Taxpayer Cash for perfectly good cars. Bonus at the end where La Hood tells everyone he has his eye on a gas-guzzling Ford Explorer.