Wind Mills: Not Spinning, Not Creating Jobs | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

A renewable electricity standard itself picks winners and losers. There’s no other way around it.

And the reason the government has to pick winners is because the losers (coal, natural gas, and nuclear) supply electricity at a much cheaper rate. So not only do Americans have to fund the construction of windmills as taxpayers, they’ll also have to pay as energy consumers for pricier electricity. This is not creating competition; it’s market distortion. Selling it any other way is spinning the story, which is much more spinning than the wind turbines in Minnesota are doing.

Mud slinging is so typical of the approach of warm-mongers | Herald Sun

Melbourne 774 radio host Jon Faine did allow Monckton into his studio for a "debate", but not without asking in a regular guest, Rupert Posner from the well-funded Climate Group of warming activists, to help knock him down.

Every caller put to air then attacked Monckton, many abusively, and Posner agreed he was a "lunatic". Faine called Monckton a "denier" and demanded to know who'd paid him.

It's this too-typical abuse of a sceptic, as much as the science, that tells me where civilisation lies in this debate, and where the totalitarians and bullies are this time gathering.

DoD re-writes Congressional Travel Rules

While accepting their newly-acquired role as "shuttle service" for the Speaker of the House, the Department of Defense is attempting to draw a line in the sand regarding congressional transportation with an updated directive on DoD Support for Travel of Members and Employees of Congress. Some of the language in the newly-released regulation (dated 15 January, 2010 - the first update since 1964) appears to be the direct result of lessons learned in dealing with Nancy Pelosi.

The Blackboard » How NOT to respond to skeptics.

Wow! Michael’s first volley is to insinuating that a mother of 9 kids doesn’t think about “complicated grown up stuff?”

Well, let me tell you a secret Michael: yah’ shouldn’t have gone there.

Climategate Update | GlobalWarming.org

It should be noted that the Competitive Enterprise Institute is involved in helping to further uncover the scandal that Keenan discovered. CEI’s legal team already has submitted a number of FOIA requests to government-employed climate scientists involved in the Climategate emails.

[Will these activities prevent bad weather?]: Green Jobs for Jailbirds | Mother Jones

Inmates compost the facility's food waste. They sort recycling by hand. They grow organic produce. They collect rainwater for the gardens. They raise bees. And they partner with scientists to do ecological research projects; right now, two of them are painstakingly raising endangered Oregon spotted frogs.

[They're both right]: Abbott says scam, Rudd say con | National | BigPond News

Politicians in Canberra haven't wasted much time tearing apart each others' plans to save the world from climate change on the first day of parliament after the summer break.