The only thing ‘green’ about NASCAR’s switch to corn ethanol is the cash | Grist

NASCAR CEO and Chairman Brian France was vague about NASCAR's environmental motivations for embracing ethanol. The move would reduce the carbon footprint of a race, he said.

How, exactly? "We're not exactly certain, but there is a benefit," he told USA Today.

Warp Speed for Risky Solar Ventures - NYTimes.com

“These projects in the first instance are being stimulated by public policy to advance them,” Mr. Craver said. “Those policies are not economically driven. They’re there to stimulate a whole different industry, to develop jobs and address environmental concerns.”

Stefan Rahmstorf, Michael Mann – Little Yellow Men In Their Heads

Whenever someone expresses dissent, which is normal in science, Rahmstorf flies off the handle and lashes out irrationally, which is abnormal.
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For years now Mann, Rahmstorf and Co. have expressed beliefs that no normal person would think. In this post I’m only going to focus primarily on Rahmstorf, as he is the issue here in Germany at the moment. But it fundamentally applies to the rest of his team as well.

OpEdNews - Article: The Republican War on Reality

On the side of the skeptics you have a handful of scientists funded by Exxon, the coal companies, the Koch Brothers and other corporate sponsors who want to maintain business as usual. They claim the jury's still out, and do this in a year when a fifth of Pakistan was flooded, when Russians fled Moscow because runaway forest fires made the air impossible to breathe, and when much of the US suffered both record temperature levels and extreme weather events like massive floods, tornadoes and ice storms. But Rossi sided with the pseudo-scientists, as has practically every other Republican Senate candidate on an issue that should cross political lines. Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Roy Blunt, Marco Rubio, Linda McMahon, Pat Toomey, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Carly Fiorina, Christine O'Donnell, Joe Miller and Rossi--every one of them has questioned the reality of the crisis and therefore the need to act. Even some who once took strong stands, like John McCain, have muted their voices to appease their hard right base. While European conservative parties lambast their more left opponents for not doing enough, the Republicans remain in denial on the ultimate issue of our lifetime.