Burt Rutan: The maverick of Mojave - opinion - 28 January 2010 - New Scientist

We've just escaped a throng of several hundred journalists and VIPs, including the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Branson, his children and their high-society friends. They were gathered on a runway under two makeshift tents for the unveiling of the not-quite-finished spacecraft that Rutan is building for [global warming believer] Branson.
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I whip out my list of questions, but before I get to the first, Rutan blindsides me. "Which magazine are you from again?" I tell him. "OK, well, I won't talk to Scientific American," he says, "They improperly covered man-made global warming. They drink Kool-Aid instead of doing research. They parrot stuff from the IPCC and Al Gore." I'm taken aback but curiosity gets the better of me so I ask him what he means. For the next 30 minutes he launches into an impassioned diatribe. He believes claims of catastrophic global warming are nothing but scare-mongering and are a product of "the greatest scientific fraud ever". At first I think this is some sort of joke but he's totally serious and at times gets quite angry.

And yet, if you didn't know his views, you'd think Rutan was an arch environmentalist. In 1989 his house featured in Popular Science magazine, billed as the ultimate energy-efficient dwelling, and for years he drove an electric car. "People thought I was a liberal and a tree-hugger, but I'm not. It's not because I have any concern about saving the planet, or peak oil. It's about neat technology."

Private Equity Is Bullish on Clean Energy - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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[Hey, let's listen to bin Laden!]: Osama bin Laden Blames US for Climate Change | Inhabitat

While bin Laden’s words are disturbing, he does make some points that should indicate to the world that regardless of whether the topic is charged negatively or positively, climate change can no longer be ignored. “Speaking about climate change is not an intellectual luxury, the phenomenon is actual fact,” he said.

These are not the thermometers you’re looking for « the Air Vent

Schmidt also said a smaller sampling of weather stations in the Canadian Arctic wouldn’t have a significant impact on the data. He said any long-term temperature changes recorded at the high Arctic station at Eureka, would likely be “representative” of changes elsewhere in the region, even in a sub-Arctic city like Yellowknife.