Environmentalism as religion – Are Environmentalists the secular successors of the Judeo-Christian tradition? « the Air Vent

These mythic structures – grace, harmony with nature in Eden, fall from grace into a state of sin – mirror religion. How can we be saved? By salvation through sustainability, by walking not driving, by voluntarily cutting back on consumption and waste, by eating organic food happily produced, by holidaying at home, by recycling, even perhaps by not washing. And by forcing these forms of behaviour on others, because whether or not we believe, we must be made to behave as if we do. We must confess our sins. Carbon must be taxed, the more heavily the better. We must picket coal-fired power stations even if that means our lights go out.

As I said above, none of this is true...

Observations: When should a scientist's data be liberated for all to see?

"It would be preferable, from a pure scientific advancement standpoint, to have every piece of data released immediately to the public," Jorge Contreras, deputy director of the Intellectual Property Program at Washington University's School of Law in St. Louis, Mo. and author of a new policy essay on the topic published online July 22 in Science, said in a prepared statement.

Arctic Ocean full up with carbon dioxide : Nature News

...research published in Science today suggests that part of the Arctic Ocean has already mopped up so much CO2 that it could have almost reached its limit

The Hockey Schtick: NASA Makes Another Boo-Boo

Through it's alarmist eyes, NASA's Earth Observatory looks at this global map of temperature anomalies and writes only about global heat waves, and somehow misses the more extant global cooling waves: