Melik Kaylan: [If we don't stop the Al Gore gossip, we'll have to marry our cousins?]

...the tabloids are brutalizing a figure the world universally recognizes as a gold-standard American idealist with the entire earth's interests at heart, a noble, likable, altruistic American.
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Here's how it works -- one sees it in closed Islamic societies -- fear of gossip grows so disproportionate that families learn to enforce self-isolation. Cousins only marry cousins. Arranged marriages multiply...

The Rubber Duckies: For services to the climate coverup | FP Comment | Financial Post

Lord Oxburgh subsequently became chairman of a multinational wind-farm company, Falck Renewables, and also chairman of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association. Both these organizations obviously have a vested interest in claims of catastrophic climate change. Thus his Lordship was the very last person who should have been overseeing any “objective” inquiry into the cooking of climate science.

Gagging on Green Garbage

The “East Anglia Event Horizon” occurred on Nov 19, 2009 and that day will live in infamy in the honest history of science. Yet in the nine months since the ‘Climate-Gate’ disclosure there has NOT BEEN ONE MENTION of this event or any conflicting viewpoints to the AGW orthodoxy presented in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. Not a single letter to the editor in opposition, not a single mention of ANY other possible climate forcing factors.

This is not science, this is despicable political advocacy.

A green lawn, without the grass

TAMPA - Long summer days are area bringing back Bay Area landscapes from the dead. But, some yards still haven't recovered from the winter freeze.

Back in the shed, covered in dust, and never to be used again -- Rick and Nanette O'Hara gladly get rid of their lawnmower and reduce their carbon footprint. They've spent several weekends re-doing their yard after the harsh winter freeze nearly killed it all.

Farmers Concerned Over Frozen Crops - Local News Story - KIFI Idaho Falls

MADISON COUNTY, Idaho -- Crops are severely damaged Friday after a freezing wind swept through east Idaho during the early morning hours.
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The freezing wind set potato farmers back three weeks, which cuts the yield dramatically.