Mona Charen on National Review Online: Torquemada in East Anglia

The scaremongers’ track record is poor. For people who seem to worship Mother Earth, they are oddly arrogant about their ability to understand complex systems like climate. Every day brings new discoveries about the incredibly complicated interplay of oceans, atmospheric gases, algae, wind, plants, animal excretions, solar radiation, and so forth.

The East Anglia e-mails reveal a priesthood becoming more and more hysterical as their certainty evaporates. Like all orthodoxies under duress, they are making war on heresy.

It’s not illegal. But it’s not science.

Die Klimazwiebel: MET office releases data and claims last decade is hottest on record

Welcome to the world of cherry picking!
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What I find remarkable about this MET office news is that it combines the release of the CRU related dataset with a statement about the seriousness of the situation. This has to be seen as a political statement at what is perceived as a crucial juncture.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Quote of the day

"[Obama press secretary Robert] Gibbs suggested the timing of the EPA announcement and the opening of a major climate change conference in Copenhagen was coincidental." "WH: Obama Favors Legislation on Global Warming"

The Global Warming Heretic: Do I REALLY think that the environmental left is on a QUEST to destroy the world’s economy?

But overt Marxism is a bit out of fashion in the west, and environmentalism is quite fashionable, so what better cover can one find for one’s war against capitalism? Just think about how many people out there are saying that the only way to lick the climate crisis is to shift more and more of the economy to state control.

Copenhagen, Cap and Trade, and Political Hubris - WSJ.com

For months, the U.N. climate change summit that began yesterday in Copenhagen has been billed as the world's last best hope to match the scientific consensus on global warming with a policy consensus. But now it turns out there is little of either, and Copenhagen looks like it will go down as one of the more remarkable cases of political hubris in recent memory.

EPA Regulates Carbon as Dangerous Pollutant - WSJ.com

The EPA aims to bully Congress and business with its carbon ruling.

Bret Stephens: The Totalities of Copenhagen - WSJ.com

Today, of course, the very idea of totalitarianism is considered passé. Yet the course of the 20th century was defined by totalitarian regimes, and it would be dangerous to assume that the habits of mind that sustained them have vanished into the mists. In Copenhagen, they are once again at play—and that, comrades, is no accident.