6/17/10: Biden jokes outlook for energy bill 'excellent' - TheHill.com

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he thinks the Senate will pass an energy bill this year "that's real."

When asked what the outlook was for getting an energy bill, one with carbon cap-and-trade included, the vice president deadpanned: "Excellent."

- Bishop Hill blog - Deepak Lal on consensus

This is an excerpt from a paper by Deepak Lal, an economist at UCLA. It dates from the year 2000.

My friend John Flemming who was then chief economist at the Bank of England, and also chairing a subcommittee of one of the UK's research councils, told me on reading the lecture that I would get nowhere by taking on the scientists who, at a meeting he attended to distribute funds for climate research, had explicitly said that they were not going to behave like economists by disagreeing with each other!

The Blackboard » Godwins Law: stasi-esque? yellow badges?

Update (12:05) : Eric Steig of [RealClimate] posting one of the stronger reactions against the paper:

Eric said… 26

Wow. Roger, you know I disagree with you on many things, but not on this.
What the heck where they thinking? Even if the analysis had some validity — and from a first glance, I’m definitely not convinced it does — it’s not helpful, to put it mildly. I’m totally appalled.

2006: More from Eric Steig:

How well does [An Inconvenient Truth] handle the science? Admirably, I thought.