Mark Your Calendar: Church Bells for Copenhagen « The Enterprise Blog

It’s hard to imagine a greater stretch from theological principle (environmental stewardship) to prudential judgment. In this case, the prudential judgment involves an extremely narrow scientific claim as well as an unqualified endorsement of a political event. That doesn’t sound very prudent to me.
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I’m reminded of a wise aphorism often attributed to G.K. Chesterton: “A church that marries the spirit of the age will find herself a widow in the next.” Sometimes widowhood comes quickly.

Suntech to Open Plant in Arizona - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Suntech Power, China’s largest solar panel manufacturer, plans to open its first American plant near Phoenix, the company announced today.
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The Phoenix plant will, however, make the panels out of solar cells shipped in from China.
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The company has applied for a 30 percent investment tax credit from the stimulus package that applies to solar manufacturing in the United States, he said.

Hall of record ratios « Watts Up With That?

In the face of the recent decline in new all-time monthly statewide maximum records, it is more probable that we may be facing a cyclical decline in our overall temperature and that something similar to the 1960s and 1970s may be a far more realistic projection. Our most recent winters have been particularly colder than long-term averages and minimal sunspot activity may be another harbinger of this normal cyclical variation in our relatively stable climate.

The rise of the Unskeptical Scientist (Unskeptical scientists trust committees) « JoNova

Once upon a time, a scientist and a skeptic used to be one and the same thing. Actually, it still is. The motto of The Royal Society — the longest lived scientific association in the world, is Nullius in Verba — “On no one’s word” (take no one’s word for it).