The Reference Frame: AGW jihad collects 700 or 39 or 6 crusaders for tough fights

At the end of the article in Chicago Tribune, Mandia says that their group will not focus on people who already know something about the climate because there's no chance for the jihad group to make them ignorant again: the new group of crooks will exclusively try to brainwash those who know absolutely nothing, Mandia of the community college explains. The assumption is that if no one has cared to learn anything about the climate for 20 years when this topic was everywhere, he or she will suddenly be thrilled to listen to six obnoxious men.

Well, good luck, loons. Let me admit that I like the idea that the fight against climate change will start to be associated with third-class community colleges and religious seminaries again. It used to belong to the fringe and it should return where it still belongs.

Review & Outlook: The Great Transmission Heist - WSJ.com

How would you like to pay higher utility bills to finance expensive electricity from solar and wind power, which you would never use? That's the issue now before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and it deserves more public and political scrutiny before it becomes a reality.

EU states express doubts over carbon offset ban | EurActiv

European Union member states may oppose new rules on how far their factories and power plants can offset their carbon emissions, to be proposed by the European Commission, environment ministries told Reuters.
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The EU executive is expected to propose in the next two weeks curbs or an outright ban from 2013 on the most common types of offsets.

What the ‘green movement’ really got wrong | spiked

In fact, there never really has been an environmental movement, full stop. Environmentalism has been a loud and bizarre spectacle of UK politics, but it has never moved more than a handful of people out onto the streets at any one time. It has never achieved sufficient numbers to count as a political force. And there has been no cohesive environmental philosophy. Instead, as Lynas admits, environmentalists were united, not by science, but by their emotional rejection of contemporary society.
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What Lynas has realised, and Monbiot has not, is that ‘sceptics’ did not undermine the environmentalists’ cause. Environmentalists were their own worst enemy. They have alienated the rest of society by their own uncompromising and misanthropic outlook. The challenge for the new environmentalists is to emerge from this crisis of their own making into an era of growing scepticism, while keeping an eye on the consequences of their arguments. But without the precautionary principle, alarmism, doom and catastrophe, and premature claims to scientific certainty, what is environmentalism?