Moonbattery: The New York Times Timeless Romance with Communist Dictatorships

We are "worse" because our elected leaders can't roll over the desires of the common citizenry and enact their grand utopian schemes. Of course, Obama now has one czar, John Holdren, who's a big fan of Chinese-style coercive birth control. And another czar, Mark Lloyd, who's a big fan of state control of the media. And the environmental offices are under committed Gaia-worshiping eco-fascists like Stephen Chu and Carol Browner. So, at least some elements of Friedman's idealized Chinese-style government are in place ideologically speaking.

By the way, this is the house that Thomas "Concerned About Resource Depletion, Climate Change, and Social Inequalities" Friedman lives in....

The more oxygen in the atmosphere, the cooler the climate | Science Codex

Everybody talks about CO2 and other greenhouse gases as causes of global warming and the large climate changes we are currently experiencing. But what about the atmospheric and oceanic oxygen content? Which role does oxygen content play in global warming?

Lusting after Tyranny - link roundup - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Media Blog on National Review Online

Worth reading, if you haven't: Thomas Friedman vs. liberty, a continuing Corner series: