William M. Briggs, Statistician » Global Warming Set To Song: Withering in the Heat

Global warming then, as a fear, is not different in class from the threats promised by old Hieronymus. Eternal torture and clusters of fifteen hurricanes are evils that will “eventually” befall us, lest we repent and lead a sinless life.

It has long been recognized that environmentalism is a religion, and young Aitan’s song tells us that he is a dedicated convert. Given the appalling content of this song, we anxiously await intellectual Daniel Dennett’s pronouncement whether this religion, as he says of other sects, is a form of child abuse.

Auto Insider: Green Nirvana Is Not Gonna Happen - Planet Gore - National Review Online

[longtime Detroit insider Peter De Lorenzo] The suspension of all rational thought in defense of a Green Nirvana that is simply notgonnahappen.com is just plain ludicrous and further proof that (Washington’s) pap “finger-snap” solutions for this nation’s energy future are not only misinformed and flat-out pathetic, but if we allow our energy future to be hijacked by their woefully misguided ideas and ideals we’ll be living in a third-world country in no time.

The blind embracing of Tesla — again, that glorified kit car company that hasn’t produced even a whiff of profit or demonstrated even the remotest suggestion of being able to bring a mainstream electric sedan to market — is Egregious Example No. 1 and proof-positive that the Green Horde will suspend all vestiges of reality in order to shove their view of a transportation future down the rest of this nation’s throat, even if the infrastructure doesn’t exist to support it now — not to mention that the funds to even begin paying for it are nowhere to be found on the horizon.

The Hockey Schtick: Hansen Maintains Title of Leading Alarmist

James Hansen of NASA/GISS, the world's leading climate alarmist, maintains his title with the new draft of his paper "Global Surface Temperature Change," concluding "global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade, despite large year to year fluctuations associated with the El Nino-La Nina cycle of tropical ocean temperature. Record high global temperature during the period with instrumental data was reached in 2010."

This conclusion is based entirely upon Hansen's own NASA/GISS ("gisstemp") data of surface measurements without adequate coverage of the poles and much of the oceans (which are extrapolated from temperatures up to thousands of miles away) and which have repeatedly been shown to be inappropriately "adjusted" and biased by urban heat island effects. Furthermore, NASA has admitted in climategate emails that their data is inferior to and partly based upon the other global surface temperature data from the infamous Phil Jones ("Hadcrut" data), who has admitted he's not so good at record keeping.

Debate running hot as cabinet loses consensus over future of emissions trading

THE Gillard government's approach to building community consensus on climate change and bringing back its shelved emissions trading scheme is ''very much contested'', insiders said before a crucial cabinet meeting tomorrow.