Giles Slade: 'London Calling' Re: the Climate Bill

Guest Blog by Chris Goodall, writer for the Guardian and green party candidate British election.
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Okay, I lost the election. But what I lost was not a seat in the British Parliament. I lost something much more valuable: the chance to push for a climate bill like the one now being framed in the United States.

Battle for climate wages on in California | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk

Some critics say Schwarzenegger's decision to ban offshore drilling has little global environmental impact, since the state's sizable fossil fuel needs will still have to be met by drilling somewhere, so the effect of the move is to "foist that off on the unseen global oil market," says David Hughes, geoscientist and fellow at the Post Carbon Institute.

Power Line - Hockey Stick: The Sequel

Cuccinelli's subpoena has been greeted with howls and protests from warmists and others who view inquiry into a scientist's work as an infringement of academic freedom--the freedom, that is, to make stuff up, hide or falsify data, and thereby impose trillions of dollars of costs on consumers, all while being supported by taxpayers. (In other contexts, this is commonly known as "fraud.")
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It is a remarkable fact that warmists claim the right to keep their data secret and avoid any critical assessment of their work, while at the same time demanding that every country in the world fashion its energy policies on the basis of their alleged findings. No doubt there is a precedent, somewhere, for such arrogance. But I am not sure there is any precedent, anywhere, for governments being stupid enough to accede to such unreasonable demands.

Elena Kagan Environmental Law Supporter Climate Change

Elena Kagan, who was nominated this morning to fill John Paul Stevens’ U.S. Supreme Court seat, has a reputation as a supporter of environmental law and as a lawyer who takes climate change seriously.