» Trying To Ridicule ‘Climate Change’ Skeptics, Green-Bloggers Come a Cropper - Big Journalism

The thing that motivates people like Spencer, McIntyre, Watts and thousands of their colleagues in the sciences (including yours truly) is not non-existent oil money, nor is it a belief that those scientists with whom we disagree are part of vast global conspiracy. Rather, it’s a simple question of to what conclusion does the science actually lead?

Irony | Climate Skeptic

It strikes me that a real scientific magazine that was actually seeking truth would, if it wanted to dedicate a whole issue to the climate debate, actually create a print debate between skeptics and alarmists to educate its readers. If the alarmist case is so obvious, and its readers so smugly superior in their intellect, surely this would be the most powerful possible way to debunk skeptics. Instead, the New Scientist chose, in a phrase I saw the other day and loved, to take a flamethrower to a field of straw men.

Schumer tours crop damage from late spring frost

POUGHQUAG – A late spring frost damages early crops in areas of the Mid-Hudson Valley recently and Senator Charles Schumer Friday toured one farm in Poughquag to see firsthand what damage had occurred.

“Our farmers are the backbone of New York’s economy and this late frost could be a big blow,” Schumer said. “I pledge to do everything I can to help these farmers recover so they can take care of their families and keep our economy humming.”

Palm trees fall victim to harsh winter and spring | Caledonian Mercury - Outdoors

The garden at Logan even has an avenue of cabbage palms that appeared in the 1973 film The Wicker Man and celebrated its centenary in 2009.

“This year,” Baines said, “due to the length and severity of the winter, the majority of specimens growing inland have been killed by the frost..."

RealClearPolitics - Cap and Scam

Like most parents, I, too, hope my children one day toil in a nonproductive factory assembling taxpayer-subsidized wind turbines rather than turn to imported Canadian fossil fuels and constructive high-income professions. Unlike profits, you see, dreams never can be outsourced.

[Good jobs that can't be outsourced?]: GE, Vestas Fall Behind in China’s ‘Tough’ Wind Market (Update1) - BusinessWeek

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Western wind turbine manufacturers are losing ground in China, the world’s fastest-growing green energy market.