Speigel Online « JoNova

That any reasonably unbiased view ends up being supportive of skeptics is of course, just what you’d expect from on a topic where one side–skeptics have so much of that essential ingredient–reality– on their side. I found the whole article worth reading, and I expect Parts 3 & 4 are the most interesting for skeptics. It’s good to finally see the work of people like McIntyre and McKitrick making it into the realms of the mainstream media.

Journalists should have been knocking on their door back in 2004.

Legislating Physics « the Air Vent

So I’ll ask readers to think about this policy. How many of you have ever seen a pickup truck or SUV that can meet the 2016 standard? The answer is they can’t, they therefore will pull down the fleet number. So of course the other sold vehicles will have to have a higher mileage standard than average, again I’ll ask people to consider if you have ever seen a 45mpg family car with reasonable space, cost and features? Again, you haven’t. There is a simple reason for that. We don’t have the technology to produce workable vehicles at this level of performance. Sure 2016 is a few years away but in 2016 we still won’t have the ability to do this — the dirty secret is, the government knows this. It cannot add $1000 to the cost of the car, because you can’t build them.

They know it.

Federal stimulus plan for solar power will take decades to return investment | Texas Watchdog

If the people of Bedford, Texas, are still borrowing whatever they are calling books in 72 years, they may find themselves in the public library on the very day the energy saved by the library's planned solar power system finally equals the cost to build it.

The solar plant in Bedford, between Fort Worth and Dallas, would not have been built at all without a nearly $2 million Department of Energy stimulus grant.

Backdoor Energy Tax - Investors.com

Pollution Control: From cars to coal mines, the imposition of economy-killing restrictions is under way. Are the new EPA regulations on auto emissions the precursor to regulating carbon dioxide by executive order?