Thursday, December 23, 2010

Blood Supply Threatened by Green Extremism « NoFrakkingConsensus
The problem, though, is that for every green idea that truly makes sense from a cost-benefit perspective, there’s half a dozen really dumb ideas. When government-employed bureaucrats promote these dumb ideas communities lose their bloodmobiles.
The year of living dangerously. Masters: “The stunning extremes we witnessed gives me concern that our climate is showing the early signs of instability” « Climate Progress
[Uber-meteorologist and former NOAA Hurricane hunter Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground] wrote me:

In my thirty years as a meteorologist, I’ve never seen global weather patterns as strange as those we had in 2010. The stunning extremes we witnessed gives me concern that our climate is showing the early signs of instability. Natural variability probably did play a significant role in the wild weather of 2010, and 2011 will likely not be nearly as extreme. However, I suspect that crazy weather years like 2010 will become the norm a decade from now, as the climate continues to adjust to the steady build-up of heat-trapping gases we are pumping into the air. Forty years from now, the crazy weather of 2010 will seem pretty tame. We’ve bequeathed to our children a future with a radically changed climate that will regularly bring unprecedented weather events–many of them extremely destructive–to every corner of the globe. This year’s wild ride was just the beginning.
Climate Change Dispatch - You're a Mean One, Mr. Hansen
Your denier label is an appalling reference,
an insult with lack of deference
to Holocaust survivors everywhere,
while your forecasts are hundreds of percent off.
...
You're a global-warming and thrice-arrested groupie
On a Federally funded climate-change spree!
British Police: Climategate Criminal Case is “Global” and Ongoing
It is acknowledged that interest in this case continues, given that the enquiry has now been running for approximately a year and that there is a desire for us to publish further detail. However, the circumstances of the case do not lend themselves to public comment at this time due to the sensitivities of the investigation and this is unlikely to change in the near future.”
—Nicola Atter (December 23, 2010) Corporate News Co-ordinator - Newsroom
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