Saturday, April 03, 2010

Inside the seething green roach pit where they EAT their own – Telegraph Blogs
I don’t visit Real Climate very often. In fact almost never because tis a silly place – as you’d expect of a site initially established primarily to defend Michael Mann’s indefensible Hockey Stick. But this thread I found is just fantastic. Not only are the comments led by your favourite BSc and mine – yes Jo Abbess, BSc. But it offers the glorious spectacle of the editor of the Guardian’s Environment blogs, one Dr James Randerson, grovelling piteously as he tries to argue that his newspaper hasn’t betrayed the great AGW cause, it hasn’t, it hasn’t!
More from Revkin
There'll be plenty of voluntary carbon credits to buy/sell worldwide, but I see no signs in UNFCCC process of a global cap and C price for years to come. Just reality... http://j.mp/dotCOP
Auto Schizophrenia - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
The mixed signals — Washington mandates for green virtue on the one hand and consumer hunger for big truck performance on the other — are whipsawing the auto industry. The industry’s schizophrenia was on display at the New York Auto Show this week as companies highlighted Pelosi-preferred, EPA-mandated, money-losing hybrid-electric vehicles even as their bottom line benefited from the sales of large-profit-margin trucks. Ford, for example, saw its Explorer and Expedition SUV sales rocket up 70 and 80 percent, respectively.
72% Support Offshore Drilling, 59% Favor It Off California and New England - Rasmussen Reports™
Voters support offshore oil drilling more than ever, and most don’t agree with President Obama’s decision to limit where that drilling can be done.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of U.S. voters believe offshore oil drilling should be allowed. Just 12% disagree and oppose such drilling, with another 16% who aren’t sure. This is the highest level of support for drilling found in nearly three years of surveying.
Eric Smith - Offshore oil drilling might make environmental sense - washingtonpost.com
The real question about drilling off our coasts can be settled by due diligence: How much greenhouse gas is released into air when we drill for oil along our coasts, and how much is released when we import it?
Planet Panelists: Just another political scam - William O'Keefe
Energy Independence is just another political scam used to take taxpayer dollars and enrich favored constituencies. Isn't that what the ethanol mandate is all about?

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