This green doesn’t want McCain back, thanks | Grist

There was a time in McCain's career when ostentatious apostasy on the subject of climate change worked for his self-image. He was showered with attention and approbation by Democrats and the media, but there was never a chance that any of the bills he wrote would pass. It was pure, satisfying melodrama without much consequence. When Democrats started being mean to him during the 2008 election, he backpedaled from climate without a second look. When a bill with a chance of passing was introduced in Congress, he stood foursquare with his party against it, repeating their mindless smears against a policy he'd supported just a few years prior. The minute there was a threat to his political life, what remained of his climate conviction vanished with a poof.
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Climate is probably dead in the Senate for at least four years. If anything happens to change that, it will be something urgent and sweeping, something that will fundamentally alter the political calculus. Whatever the result, McCain won't be, as he so palpably wants, the essential man in the middle. Without that, it holds no interest for him. He'll take his ball and go home. And that's fine by me. Like all greens with open eyes and a measure of dignity, I'm sick of the guy.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

The 2010 minimum extent is 240,000 square kilometers (93,000 square miles) above 2008 and 630,000 square kilometers (240,000 square miles) above the record low in 2007.

Al Fin: Women More Easily Blinded by Science?

Who is more likely to pick up on the huge contradictions inside the rapidly shredding catastrophist camp -- thinking men or thinking women? It is impossible to know without actually checking. Michigan State sociologists have checked, and found that women are not picking up on the discrepancies. Why not?

Why do such women put their trust in authority figures, even when these figures have proven themselves untrustworthy?

Salvos Fly as Ethanol Ruling Nears - NYTimes.com

The Environmental Protection Agency has said it will rule by the end of this month on whether to allow gasoline retailers to sell a mixture that is 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent unleaded regular, a change from the current maximum of 10 percent ethanol. Coalitions have lined up — on one side, the corn farmers and ethanol producers, and on the other, the oil refiners, auto companies, manufacturers of gasoline-powered equipment and companies that use corn to raise livestock.