Treemometers: A new scientific scandal • Andrew Orlowski - The Register

A scientific scandal is casting a shadow over a number of recent peer-reviewed climate papers.

American Thinker: Energy Secretary Chu and the Toll of Silly Physics

Steven Chu and his colleagues masterfully controlled a half dozen laser sources to essentially freeze the motion of atoms. Very nice work indeed, paid for by the aggregated pennies collected from grandma's analog phone bill. The work, which never helped grandma or improved her phone service, won Dr. Chu and others the Nobel Prize in physics in 1997.
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At the December 2008 Democratic Convention, Chu's future boss made the absurd claim that if elected he would guarantee that the United States would be energy independent in ten years. We're approaching Obama's one-year anniversary. Do you think that we're 10% towards energy independence? Neither do I. And we never will be without developing a lot more of our own oil, gas and coal. And as long as Dr. Steven Chu is in charge of the DoE and Obama is our President that will never happen.

A Death Spiral for Climate Alarmism, Redux? — MasterResource

In the face of the risks to the climate crisis agenda outlined above, we can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority. Politicians are likely to try to ram as much through as they can for their favored constituencies and technologies before the climate crisis runs out of steam, and public concern drops even lower. This is the time for those concerned about public policy to be on high alert, as panicked activists and politicians will be trying every trick in the book to enact their agenda by hook or by crook.

Vigilance is called for more than ever in contentious climate debate.