- Bishop Hill blog - What next for greenery?

It's [Richard Black's] slack-jawed acceptance of the premise of the piece that I find so interesting. I mean, don't we pay the guy to question what greens and scientists are telling us? Do you think a seminar in which the views of the biodiversity crisismongers were challenged might illuminate things more than what we see here?

To me, this looks very much like the BBC staff being briefed on the next narrative. There is no sense of BBC journalists being asked to consider different sides of a scientific debate, no sense that the assembled journalists are meant to question anything. We simply have one scientist saying what he thinks the problem is and another telling the journalists how to convey that scientist's message to the public.

The planning of a propaganda campaign in full public view? What do you think?

Mistakes made by the Consensus by Dan Pangburn P.E. guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists

Thus the so-called global climate models are actually global weather models. It is woefully naïve to believe that all that is needed to turn a global weather model into a global climate model is to run it longer.

Warning Signs: Big Green Lies are Imploding

To demonstrate how deranged Gore is, he actually blamed a “biased right-wing media…bolstered by professional deniers.” There is The Wall Street Journal and Fox News whose reporting reflects a conservative philosophy and outlook, but the rest of the mainstream media has been so demonstrably left-wing there was little else available to the public until the advent of cable television and the Internet. And they all lied about global warming.

Quadrant Online - Election climate

Voters object to paying the bill for climate fixes
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Australian voters showed some enthusiasm for the environment in the last election, but this election has shown that their enthusiasm stops well short of paying to fix its supposed problems.
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In other words, efforts to seriously reduce carbon emissions are a waste of time, but activists simply will not see this. The only sensible response of the two major parties in this election campaign is to make noises about the environment but avoid committing themselves to any concrete policy that promises increases in electricity prices.