Climate Alarmism on the Hot Seat: Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle Science Writer, Wants to Know What’s Up — MasterResource

What Eric Berger will find out, I believe, is that the ‘easy’ computable answer for climate models introduced an inherently biased, upward estimate of climate sensitivity. But the climate is much more complex that the (artificial) models, and more realistic physics (a la Lindzen) suggest climate to have less positive (and maybe neutral or negative) feedbacks. This would mean that CO2 is a benign, trace gas–not a harbinger of doom.

Science and the Left

Some excerpts below from a long and leisurely 2008 article by Yuval Levin. He makes good points but he could be more cynical. I would summarize his whole article in one sentence: The Left champion science the way they champion everything: When it suits them -- JR

American Thinker: American Socialism & Chinese Capitalism

China learned the lessons of socialism's failure in Russia and is prospering. Congress did not.

Blue Crab Boulevard » A Summer That Never Was

Our above-ground pool (which holds about 21,000 gallons of water) is at 72°F today. That should tell you how cold it has been for a while now. (That’s with a solar cover, incidentally.)

Canada is positioning itself for Copenhagen Conference « Cobourg Skeptic – Climate Change and Resources

Under a previous Government, Canada agreed to the Kyoto protocol but were very slow to get it approved by Parliament and then did exactly nothing to make any changes. At the time, I was describing the Prime Minister (Jean Chretien) as being a clever Politician – give the appearance of going along with the greenies while actually doing nothing.