NY Times Symposium: Will Electric Cars Succeed? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

One vote for success, fives votes for not so fast.

The Reference Frame: Mickey Man: AGW science depends on manipulation by politicians

We must be ready to fight against any attempts to verify any of our statements and all attempts to look at the big claims with a critical eye. Independently thinking people and the verification of essential tenets of our ideologies are clearly the last things we can afford. On the contrary, unthinking politicians who just parrot whatever we need are our greatest friends. They have always been helping us just like we have always been helping them. Please, do everything to save our sinking ship.

Move Over Carbon, Humans Are Jolting Nitrogen, Too - NYTimes.com

For anyone doubting whether a lowly hominid could be a planet-scale influence, a paper on the human domination of the global nitrogen cycle in the Oct. 8 edition of Science would be a useful read. It’s titled “The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle” and builds on earlier work showing how human activities have become a dominant influence on the global cycling of a variety of substances.