[Absurd propaganda]: Climate Change Will Slash U.S. Corn, Soybean Crops

Research revealed that holding current growing regions fixed, area-weighted average yields are predicted to decrease by 30 percent to 46 percent before the end of the century under the slowest warming scenario and decrease by 63 percent to 82 percent under the most rapid warming scenario.

CentreRight: The department fighting climate change has spent more than £1 million on air travel in less than a year

"DECC has spent the following since its inception: (a) ministerial cars and drivers £166,305; (b) taxis for the whole Department £202,249; (c) train travel for the whole Department £557,637; and (e) air fares for the whole Department £1,179,390. The Department is not able to separately identify the use of helicopters or chartered aircraft except at disproportionate cost."

Global warming hotheads freeze out science's sceptics | The Australian

Almost the only scientists at liberty to speak their minds are retirees, such as William Kininmonth and Paltridge himself. He gives an example, Brian Tucker, a former chief of CSIRO's Atmospheric Research Division. Tucker was "a specialist in numerical climate modelling and therefore knew better than most where the bodies are buried in the climate change game. He kept remarkably quiet about his worries on the matter. Then he retired, and for four or five years thereafter was the bane of the global warming establishment because of his very public stance against many of its sacred cows." Eventually he was marginalised by being described as "one of the usual suspects, who was now out of date and in any event was probably on the payroll of industry".

[Should the US public subsidize companies like this?]: First Solar’s New CEO High Compensation Package

# He will be paid a sign-on bonus of $5,000,000 in cash, 50% to be paid as soon as practicable after his start date and no later than 15 days after his start date, with the other 50% to be paid in a year regardless of whether Mr. Gillette remains employed with First Solar through the applicable payment date.
# Granted fully vested First Solar shares valued on the grant date of $3,250,000;
# Fully vested First Solar stock options with an aggregate Black-Scholes value on the grant date of $3,250,000.00; Restricted stock units with an aggregate fair market value on the grant date of $6,500,000.00, subject to cliff-vesting on the second anniversary of the grant date with no early acceleration triggers other than change in control.