Our View: Arnold still hot for global warming - Editorials - Colusa Sun-Herald

The global warming movement's downward spiral accelerated in the past year after thousands of documents from climate researchers were leaked, revealing manipulation, suppression and possible fraudulent rigging of data to show the world approaching meltdown. In fact, it's the global warming movement that's been melting down, as successive embarrassing disclosures revealed the so-called climate consensus to be built in part on non-peer-reviewed research and activist groups' flawed assertions misrepresented as bona fide scientific studies.

LIEBERMAN: The ecological monster who said . . . peep - Washington Times

Call it the Election Day dog that didn't bark - or, possibly, the oiled bird that didn't fly. The BP oil spill had virtually no impact at the polls on Nov. 2. The fact that the biggest ecological scare of the summer was nearly forgotten by fall says a lot about where the American people stand on energy and environmental issues.

Less than five months after President Obama gave a prime-time TV address hyping the Deepwater Horizon spill as "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced," there is scant evidence that the spill affected even a single congressional race. This was not for lack of trying.

Green energy for Africa puts Britain in the red

UNDOUBTEDLY two of the most politically correct ways to dispose of public funds are combating poverty in the developing world and tackling climate change.

So sacred are these causes held to be that there is seldom much scrutiny of whether money spent on them yields useful results.

Now International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has brought them together by launching a programme to equip Africa and Asia with solar panels and wind turbines courtesy of the British taxpayer. So-called “green development” projects are achingly trendy and will probably secure Mr Mitchell rave reviews among fashionable metropolitan opinion.

But among the wider public the suspicion will grow that this spending is more about pandering to the vanity of politicians than it is about clean energy or real economic progress in the Third World.