Harry Reid's Latest Bill and the Death of Cap and Tax - WSJ.com

Harry Reid's latest energy bill is designed not to pass.

More hysterical climate alarmism from the ABC | Australian Climate Madness

...unless we take rapid action now, we may well be locking in irreversible climate change of catastrophic proportions for future generations [nonsense - there is no evidence whatsoever of irreversible climate change in our planet's history - it's been here for 4.5 billion years, for f***'s sake]; indeed we may have already done so.

C3: The Wildly Delusional & Royal Hypocrite Prince Charles: More Evidence That Royal In-Breeding Should Be Outlawed

The UK's Prince Charles is one of those wealthy global elites who now believes he has been put on Earth to save it, from the rest of us - yikes! Over the years, like so many of the rich and merit-less, he has become extremely fearful of human CO2 emissions, and never tires from lecturing about how others should live their lives. Of course, this includes his advice that everyone else should live a low carbon, low energy lifestyle, with the exception of his truly.

- Bishop Hill blog - Reinhard Böhm

William of Baskerville: Everyone is talking about climate science. Only a few years ago climatology probably ranked, in terms of status, alongside an underwater basket-weaving course and the well educated lay person would only have heard of Dr. Hubert Lamb, the then doyen of climate science, by chance. From this condition of scientific understanding, hardly appreciable to the outside world, emerged the science of climatology at the very latest by the beginning of the 90s. The well known German climatologist Hans von Storch wrote:

Up until the 1980s the dynamics of climate were the main focus of climate research, but since the 1990s it has revolved around the threat of climate catastrophe and climate protection...

Von Storch attempts to capture this change of state - from a purely internal scientific dialogue, devoted to discerning the truth, to a new condition which appropriates and intermingles with extraneous political subject matter - with the term "postnormal".

Personally I see here the effects of the application of the postmodern body of thought ("panfitionalistish weltverschwindlerischem" - [refer to descartes - no idea what this is about]) to the scientific method. This "change in paradigm" can probably be viewed as being partly responsible for the well renowned and widely accepted phenomenon known as the medieval warm period, first described by Dr. Hubert Lamb in 1965 and confirmed a hundred times and even expanded upon by the IPCC, being expunged from our collective memories through a handful of studies (Mann et al. 1998, 1999). Deming said

Decades of work was overturned by one journal article. The MWP had been reinterpreted out of existence. (Deming, D.: Global Warming, the Politicization of Science, and Michael Crichton's State of Fear, in: Journal of Scientific Explorations, Vol. 19, No. 2, 249, 2005).

Today, more than 10 years afterwards, we see climatology split in to several camps. On the one side those who believe they recognize a looming apocalypse (Polar bears becoming extinct, coastal towns being flooded, melting poles etc.) and, on the other side, those who view any statements about the warming of the earth as being bereft of any scientific evidence. In the middle are those scientists, who however, because of the politically charged atmosphere, find hardly anyone who will listen to them.