Artists in the Arctic - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The bell rings on deck, that means there’s something to see. “Ayeaah,” says the captain, usually a man of few words, “seven polar bears eating an old whale carcass. I have only seen something like this a few times in all my journeys in the North.”

Scrap the Cap by The Editors on National Review Online

Hear that? It’s the sound of another 1,000-page bill hitting desks all over Washington. Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have introduced the “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,” which is the Senate equivalent of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that passed the House earlier this year. Compared to Waxman-Markey (1,428 pages), the Kerry-Boxer bill (925 pages) is a model of concision. However, it is expected to grow as Senate Democrats try to buy Republican votes with token support for nuclear energy and offshore drilling. Skeptical senators should not take the bait.

Longrider » Yet More Eco-Lunacy

Oh, we understand alright. Public opinion has started to catch up with the charlatans, liars and doomsday banshees who want to drag us back to a medieval lifestyle. Perhaps they would like to reintroduce feudalism as well. We realise that so-called scientists have been cherry picking data to fit their preconceived ideas, thereby ignoring scientific process. We realise that politicians have been jumping onto the bandwagon. We realise that climate science is complex and cannot therefore be “settled”. We realise that the available data is insufficient and corrupted, and consequently cannot be relied upon. We realise that “peer review” and “consensus” are meaningless when raw data is withheld from anyone who may wish to check and challenge the findings. We realise that ground stations are frequently placed in urban hot-spots, so are unreliable. We realise that measurements do not include ocean temperatures. We realise that these people have sold us a pup in order to exercise control.
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Interestingly, Stern is taking a well deserved pasting in the comments to the Times piece, thereby confirming that people are onto the high priests of this wack-job religion.

SuperFreakanomics - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

What's particularly amusing is that both Krugman and Levitt/Dubner are bloggers for the New York Times. As Joseph Lawler pointed out at the American Spectator blog, "They can't both be right; one or the other must have seriously misrepresented someone's views. I'm guessing that the Times usually holds its columnists to a higher standard. But I'd hate to be the editor tasked with sorting this one out."