Unusual snow in South Africa

Lucy Dixon, who works on a cattle and horse farm, said she had never seen so much snow in the area. “Every mountain was covered, even the famous Spandau Kop.

“I heard some farmers say it has never snowed like this since 1977. We have had up to six inches of snowfall.”

Climate junk hard to dump

This quasi-religious belief is particularly appealing to the political and bureaucratic classes, because it provides new justifications for intervention to correct the imperfections and ongoing inequities of perpetually demonized capitalism. In a classic example of psychological "projection," however, alarmists claim that it is their opponents who are tainted by "greed" and "self-interest."
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The IPCC came with its moralistic paradigms pre-installed.
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For most modern liberals, including many scientists, the market sun still goes round the government Earth, and it's a paradigm they are reluctant to change. Policy skeptics, by contrast, who are still trying to establish the revolutionary and counterintuitive insights of Adam Smith, point out that carbon rationing, green industrial strategy and aid transfers under the aegis of "clean development" are--whatever the science--economic junk.

The Persistence of Species | The SPPI Blog

Clearly, the panic-evoking extinction-predicting paradigms of the past are rapidly giving way to the realization they bear little resemblance to reality. Earth’s plant and animal species are not slip-sliding away – even slowly – into the netherworld of extinction that is preached from the pulpit of climate alarmism as being caused by CO2-induced global warming.

Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso

Alarmists all at sea | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Reader Brendan reports from the lecture tour of Watts Up With That’s Anthony Watts...

The Reference Frame: EU wants to lower CO2 by 30% by 2020 unilaterally

What is the purpose of all these steps? In my opinion, there is only one goal. Under the pressure from green lunatics from the whole world, the European Commission struggles to entirely liquidate the European business and to perform its own European green cultural revolution inspired by Mao Zedong's example. In the case of China, they also tried to achieve a "big leap forward" to quickly transform the agricultural country to an industrial one. In a similar way, the European Commission is attempting to achieve a centrally directed "big green leap forward" that should create "green jobs" and "green technologies" which, in practice, translates to biofuels, solar plants, and similar expensive fiddleshits whose profitability would be insufficient in the free markets.