EU Referendum: The ice floes of reality

...there is nothing scientific in their method. These people are not scientists but advocates of a political cause. Thus we see them reacting in precisely that way, seeking funding to advertise their beliefs in the New York Times.

Little perhaps do they realise that, as they shed the scientific mantles behind which they have been cowering, and enter more fully the political arena, they will find that they have a deal in common with the Baltic shipping. The wind has changed and the ice floes of reality are bearing down upon them.

EU's 'carbon fat cats' get rich off trading scheme: study

Europe's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with ten firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth 500 million euros, a new report revealed.

Dominated by steel and cement makers, the same "carbon fat cats" stand to collect surplus CO2 permits that -- at current market rates -- could be worth 3.2 billion euros (4.3 billion dollars) by 2012, it said.

The Reference Frame: Ehrlich, Schneider et al.: preparing a pogrom against skeptics

In 1967, Paul Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s. Later, he updated his prediction and argued that most of the U.S. population would starve to death before 2000.

His whole career has been built on making absolutely preposterous statements of this kind.

Of course, he always had to suffer by the knowledge that most people have always realized that he is a kook, a lunatic obsessed with doomsdays, and a parasite on the Academic system.

Anthropogenic Global Warming, or just natural variation? | CLIMATEGATE

So, if temperatures on several occasions during our current interglacial period have been higher than now, why this concern about global warming?