Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Green War on Children - Michelle Malkin - National Review Online
Perhaps all the fatuous parents who allow their sons and daughters to be junior lobbyists for the green agenda will now think twice about handing them over so blindly to the state. And perhaps some of their propaganda-swallowing teachers might actually talk to a family or two who find zero humor in environmental terrorism.
Global Warming Hysteria: Scientists’ Pie Fight » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog
In any event, Lewis’s letter is just one more bit of evidence that the global warming hysterics can no longer effectively stifle dissent. The lid is off the pressure cooker and the soup is boiling over.
USU museum of art hosting climate change lecture
In his lecture, Davies will overview the evidence of the current climate predicament and discuss societal barriers to understanding and internalizing the predicament. He will also discuss he efforts of others in overcoming these cultural and emotional barriers. After his lecture, Davies will answer questions from the public explaining the varied and contributing factors of climate change.
Fall apple picking unlikely due to May frost - New York
Leon Dolce of Sheridan Hill Farms in Forestville said he has had the worst crop in his 33 years of farming.

"There's not one apple on any of our 300 trees; for the first time in 33 years, we never picked one," he said.
Can we trust the IPCC’s evidence? | Craig Fairnington | Independent Battle of Ideas Blogs
Even then, the IPCC faces a fundamental problem that no amount of procedural reform can fix – its reports have political purposes, with a wide spectrum of interest groups seeking to use it as a neutral font of knowledge to wield for their own purposes. IPCC reports are used by politicians to legitimise cutbacks and taxation, by environmental campaigners to oppose oil exploration, and by the 10:10 campaign to justify the exploding of dissident schoolchildren in a recent advert.

The IPCC’s aim to create some kind of consensus around the issue of climate change is unavoidably entangled within the demands and politics of these interest groups and their opponents – it is not a disinterested observer – and we must always ask ourselves, can we trust the evidence?

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