Stormy weather for IPCC | Peter Worthington | Toronto Sun

What common sense and the series of recent natural disasters should indicate is that anything man does is so petty and puny compared to what nature can wreak on occasion, that it should make us more humble instead of more arrogant.

But the Dr. Pachauris of the world are on the cutting edge of political correctness. One cannot escape the conclusion that climate change activism is yet another ploy to distribute wealth and establish a new elite that brooks neither dissent nor contradiction.

OUR VIEW: In junk science, we should have no faith (vote) - Opinion - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO

Unfortunately, faith is often extended to ideas and theories simply because someone labels them as science. Too often, we place faith in junk science.

Anthropogenic global warming theory may someday rate as proven science. It remains unproved and in question by some of the world’s leading scientists. It requires an extension of faith in humans who insist it is true. We’re not certain, beyond reasonable doubt, this theory won’t unravel.

Throughout much of the 20th Century, suspects were convicted by jurors who placed blind faith in fingerprint analysis, deceptively characterized as a science. Today, we view much fingerprint analysis as junk. A higher science, DNA analysis, brought this to light by exonerating convicts whose lives were ruined by fingerprint junk science. Even sophisticated machines cannot match most prints with certainty, and usually it isn’t a machine doing the work.

Greens trying to avoid midterm blues - Josh Voorhees - POLITICO.com

Other goals for the league and its brethren include protecting environmental stalwarts like Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and a swath of vulnerable House members who went out on a political limb to vote for last year’s cap-and-trade bill.

Who's in line to lead Energy panel? - POLITICO.com

But even if Upton, rather than a strident conservative, lands the top job, he will bring with him a dramatically different set of priorities than current Chairman Harry Waxman, a liberal California Democrat.

Upton says his top priorities are undoing parts of President Barack Obama’s new health care law, fighting Democratic efforts to institute a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions and fulfilling the nation’s energy needs with a full menu of resources — including renewable energy, oil, “clean” coal and nuclear power.