Andrew Dessler and Gerald North on Climategate, Climate Alarmism, and the State of Texas Challenge to U.S. EPA’s Endangerment Finding (the first in a series) — MasterResource

Part IV next week will examine some emails from Gerald North (most from his/our Enron consulting period) that show climate alarmism in a somewhat different light, which suggests that North and other “mainstream” scientists have circled the wagons and not confronted Climategate’s agenda-driven, ends-justifies-the-means perversion of scientific endeavor.
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There are thousands more unearthed emails from climate scientists that also need to see the light of day to inform the current debate–and give philosophers and historians of science more data for their stocktaking of this debate.

To this end, I have retrieved more than a decade of emails between many leading climate scientists on all sides of the scientific debate and myself. Many of these involve Dr. North in a professional capacity as a paid consultant for Enron. And I believe that they will show a “skeptic” side that has been sacrificed to a help-our-colleagues, save-the-IPCC mentality at Texas A&M.

Political activist Andrew Dessler has been in the middle of this, and Dr. North seems to have gone hard Left to join him. This, in my view, is a very negative development that should be exposed and debated by all of us. (I welcome their rebuttal here or at another website.)

Does even Ian McEwan know what Ian McEwan really thinks about 'Climate Change'? – Telegraph Blogs

Here is a great novelist at the height of his powers summing up perfectly the atavistic impulse which leads generation after generation to believe it is the chosen one: the generation so special that it and it alone will be the one privileged to experience the end of the world; and the generation so egotistical that it imagines itself largely responsible for that imminent destruction.

The Aztecs thought it; Medieval peasants thought it; green doom-mongers think it today. But the fact that generations of credulous berks believed these things does not make their guilt-laden, quasi-religious convictions any more valid now than they were a thousand years ago. The end of the world is not nigh.
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Could it be that McEwan is suffering a severe case of cognitive dissonance, with the achingly PC, AGW-believing, public version of Ian McEwan battle for supremacy with his inner creative genius which seems to have a much, much more insightful understanding of the real issues at stake with AGW?

Save the planet! Sack people | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Sydney’s mad Lord Mayor thought a new bicycle path down busy Bourke Road would be perfect to fight global warming. And never mind the workers

Labor loves sceptics, after all | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So much for “the greatest moral issue of our time”:

Liberal senator Simon Birmingham attacked the SA Labor Party for preferencing the Independent Climate Sceptics...