Daniel Kamman Embraces the Spectrum as the Clean-Energy Czar - NYTimes.com

“The biggest hurdle is we still don’t value financially the environmental and social damage we’re doing with our current fossil fuel economy.”

— Daniel M. Kammen

Svensmark’s Cloud Theory May In Fact Cause Warming, Taunts German Scientist

Of course, in a reader comment, I asked why the long periods of long protracted solar inactivity during the Manunder Minimum and Dalton Minimum did not lead to warming. Why was it cold instead?

Climategate whitewashers squirm like maggots on Bishop Hill's pin – Telegraph Blogs

Perhaps the most shocking new revelation in Andrew Montford’s report is that Sir Muir Russell appears to have been given evidence at the beginning of his inquiry that [paleoclimatologist] Keith Briffa had “taken steps that might be construed as an attempt to block Freedom of Information requests.”

Despite this, the Muir Russell report claimed “we have seen no evidence of any attempt to delete information in respect of a request already made.”

Hmm. Curiouser and curiouser.

‘LOL OIL’ - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Here’s a collection of some rather vain vanity plates from a recent Tesla gathering. I wonder how much of the electricity used to charge these cars for their drives to this unnecessary festival of self-congratulation came from coal and natural gas?