EU Referendum: Awaiting the Berlin Wall moment

...in this post-"Climategate" world, the authority of the so-called experts has been irrevocably tainted. Their creed is on an unstoppable path to destruction. Soon enough, the anti-warming dissidents will be on the march and young men will be taking sledgehammers to the walls of East Anglia University and the Hadley Centre. Then it will all be over.
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Thus yesterday, even as the Indian Mail Today was going to press, we had "Patchy" turning up in Bombay to collect his corporate citizen of the year award.

Local reporters recorded that the first Sedan rolled in by around 5.30 pm, a full one-and-a-half hours before the awards event was to begin. And surely, on hindsight, it was a wise decision. For, by 6.30, there was a queue of over 100 cars – Porsches, BMWs, Mercs and such like, interspersed with beacon-flashing official ones – stretching for well over a kilometre, waiting to enter the venue.

This was to honour the man who, six weeks ago, was telling us that the Western lifestyle was "unsustainable". Today, "we have reached the point where consumption and people's desire to consume has grown out of proportion," he declared.

Cold wars | Samizdata.net

...the AGW debate has arrived at the same position that the Cold War argument had arrived at in or around about 1970 to 1980. An informed minority of pro-economic-progress critics had won the academic argument against the pro-economic-derangement academics, and word of this victory was spreading. And a particular thing that happened then is starting to happen now, which is that even intelligent layman critics of the John Redwood (and Brian Micklethwait) variety are starting to understand the details of the argument better than even the very smartest of the pro-derangement scientists, of the sort who are still advising governments, or who are still receiving and still trying still to believe this advice. It's not that these "experts" were born stupid, nor that they are now ignorant. Nor is Ed Miliband stupid, even if, what with all the other things on his mind, I suspect him of still being fairly ignorant. The climate science "experts" still know far more mere facts about this debate than John Redwood does, or than I do. It is simply that these people have now said - and nailed their egos to - too many stupid things, too many non-facts, and there is now no sensible way out for them. It's what these "experts" still insist on saying they know, but that clearly ain't so, that is hanging them all out to dry. The science, they keep saying, still, is settled. In their dreams.

IEEE Spectrum: Plugging in cars, even overnight, will strain local grids and could boost pollution

The myth that thousands of EVs will seamlessly fold into the power grid by charging at night, using otherwise idle generating plants and power grids, is breaking down. Utilities worry that EV charging could black out the neighborhoods of some early EV adopters and give the emerging technology a black eye.

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Heard this: "I have an inconvenient truth for Al Gore--it is cold in Florida." Pastor Stovall Then saw this: