American Thinker: Why Elitists Fail

Climategate has shown us that even Ph.D. scientists can be swayed with money, power, and political influence. I may not know which end of the test tube the cork goes into, but such delusional certainty ("the debate is over") about such a massively complicated issue can make a skeptic of anyone. Science and politics go together no better than religion and politics.

bin Laden Hates Global Warming, Global Warming Hates Him …

Osama bin Laden just handed the enemies of clean energy a grenade launcher, which they eagerly received.

PR’ing Industrial Wind: Government and Media versus Common Sense — MasterResource

Wind is, in the final analysis, a faith-based proposition, requiring people to close their minds and clap their hands to revive it from a life and death struggle against unbelief, bringing the technology back from the oblivion that the steam engine consigned it to hundreds of years ago.

One of the issues such wind promotions raise, particularly those from the NREL, is how political our information-assessment government agencies have become. And this indictment includes the National Academy of Science. The media don’t even question this anymore, simply taking it as business as usual.

The politicalization of knowledge, particularly in areas as important to our modernity as energy, is a major unreported story. It has more than immediate cost implications for our wallets, since it ultimately corrupts our base of knowledge and subverts our intellectual integrity, both essential for achieving wisdom and successful democracy.

All American Blogger » Ten Years for Oil? Bad. Ten Years for Nuke Plants? Sounds Good.

So, if a decade is a reason to forego any consideration of drilling for oil in ANWR, why is it not a reason to forget about building nuclear power plants?

In the words of President Obama, let me be clear. I am not opposed to the construction of new nuclear power plants. I am very much for them. But I think the duplicity here by the president in promoting an exercise that will take just as long as a process he and his leftist brethren rejected needs to be highlighted. We need oil just as much as we need electricity from nuclear power.

In reality, this is very easy for him to promote. He knows that any new proposed nuclear power plants would be smothered in red tape, eco-Marxist protests and the usual NIMBY push back.

He loses nothing by pushing it. He knows it will never happen but can position himself as being for it.