On top secrets and climate change | Journalist Profile |

A small sidelight of Schneider’s career was that he played himself in the 1993 CBS miniseries Fire Next Time — nothing to do with the great James Baldwin book. The show depicted a United States reduced to ruins by global warming. Plus, survivors were in constant danger of exposure to bad dialogue! Set in the year 2017, the miniseries was classic Hollywood galimatias, showing a post-apocalyptic landscape unlike anything projected even by worst-case analysis. In the miniseries, Schneider appears as an aging scientist, lamenting that nothing was done while there was time. I wish he had been given the chance to live until 2017 and see that the world will be mostly fine.
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Also diluting belief in climate change is high-and-mighty behavior of some – surely not all — in the science community. Recently the environmental radio show Earthbeat ran a segment in which Susan Hassol, who’s in the instant-doomsday camp, claimed that scientists researching global warming are subject to “McCarthyism.” McCarthyism? Most climate scientists enjoy academic tenure, while being darlings of the P.C. cocktail-party circuit.

Last year the federal government awarded $7 billion in climate change research grants, making life cushy for climate scientists. I don’t recall Joe McCarthy giving billions of dollars to State Department China hands! One climate pessimist, Michael Mann of Penn State, has indeed received unfair treatment from the far right, but then again Mann is a holier-than-thou type who is quick to denounce those who disagree with him, and one reaps what one sows.

Senate Dems Abandon Cap and Trade Global Warming Tax?

No matter how you cut it, a cap and trade global warming tax is a loser proposition. It means job loss, financial loss, and freedom loss–all based on an environmental hoax.

Let’s hold these socialist scheisters accountable, my fellow Americans, before the election, and most especially IN the election.

[So, is greenpeace.org powered solely by wind power?]: Greenpeace Attacks Facebook’s Power Supply | ConceivablyTech

Greenpeace questions the massive amounts of energy Facebook needs to power its datacenters. “The last thing we need for them to be doing is building them in places where they are increasing demand for dirty coal fired power. If your Facebook page is being powered by coal, then it’s contributing to climate change,” said Cook.

Reasons to Worry - Planet Gore - National Review Online

So I start from a different position: why not guard against/worry about/seek to avoid the (however troubled, but possible) plans the Left openly proclaims as the Obama Window closes? We have a congressional majority that’s ready to die (politically) for its wants.

Biden: 'The heavy lifting is over' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

The "heavy lifting is over" when it comes to the Obama administration's legislative priorities this year, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday evening.