The Hockey Schtick: Paper: Global Warming Improves Biodiversity

However, a recent paper finds that back when the entire earth was like the modern tropics today, as Al Gore tells us we are headed again due to our own sins, biodiversity exploded around the entire planet, with crocodiles and palm trees in the high arctic...

Green Ford Rides SUV Profits - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Ford’s $2.6 billion second quarter profit — its best in 12 years — is a testament to Alan Mulally’s visionary restructuring of Ford into a leaner company focused on its core Ford and Lincoln brands. It’s also a result of America’s return to SUVs and its embrace of the only Detroit company that did not take government welfare.

But don’t expect Ford’s sunny, politically correct CEO to admit it.

Op-Ed Contributor - Four Ways to Kill a Climate Bill - NYTimes.com

Despite climate change being the greatest challenge of our time, with millions of people facing inundation, starvation and conflicts over scarce resources, the White House directed advocates not to discuss it. At a meeting in April 2009 led by Carol Browner, the White House coordinator of energy and climate policy, administration message mavens told climate bill advocates that, given the polling, they should avoid talking about climate change and focus on green jobs and energy independence.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Meltdown

In short, climate policy is in utter meltdown: on the political left environmental advocates are at each others' throats while there is every indication that the climate science community has drawn no useful lessons from the past nine months.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: We'll Always Have the Climate Wars

So it is somewhat surprising to see the renewed "academic penis wagging" of the activist scientists. This sort of behavior would seem to be a mistake, as going back to the old ways of winning through intimidation just doesn't seem plausible anymore. But like the skeptics, over-testosteroned academics are just something to be lived with, rather than defeated.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Julia Gillard Lays Out Her Approach to Climate Policy

When will politicians learn that climate policies are a political loser if they require that people "transform the way we live and the way we work"? The vast majority of people simply do not want their lives transformed.