Cap & trade 'corporate welfare' | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

Giving away free carbon credits to industry makes no sense for the U.S. -- or for us

Some perspective — the Earth is cold today compared to the past at Heliogenic Climate Change

Without a Technology Breakthrough, Battery Costs Are Likely to Limit Widespread Adoption of Electric Cars Over... -- DETROIT, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ --

DETROIT, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Although electric-car battery costs are expected to fall sharply over the coming decade, they are unlikely to drop enough to spark widespread adoption of fully electric vehicles without a major breakthrough in battery technology, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

[in case you missed it]: Brrrr, the thinking on climate is frozen solid | Dominic Lawson - Times Online

In fact, the Met still asserts we are in the midst of an unusually warm winter — as one of its staffers sniffily protested in an internet posting to a newspaper last week: “This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has already been recorded. For your information, we take the highest 15 readings between November and March and then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally warm month, then all the data will come from those readings.”

Lord Monckton to tour Australia | The SPPI Blog

Lord Monckton’s provisional itinerary is as follows

RealClimate: L&C, GRL, comments on peer review and peer-reviewed comments

[Chris O’Dell] In my opinion, there is a case to be made on the peer-review process being flawed, at least for certain papers.

Global warming and the lukewarmer's manifesto

I find that I cannot agree with the analysis or course of action put forward by Senator James Inhofe, Marc Morano or Viscount Lord Monckton. The idea that humanity can triple its population and equip so many of them with cars, electricity, air conditioning, unlimited supplies of domestically grown meat and other high caloric foods without having an impact [which way, and of what magnitude?] on our climate and other aspects of our environment seems absurd. I think for the most part that they have to consciously avoid looking at the planet and the work of the main body of science to maintain this point of view