Hypocrite George Monbiot Condemns Large, Expensive Homes – Except His Own. | hauntingthelibrary

So next time you read a piece by some paragon of the establishment scolding you for pursuing that destructive, consumerist lifestyle, remember – they have no intention of them giving it up, only you.

North Atlantic ocean currents changed in the 1970s | TG Daily

Now, using new geochemical methods, an international team led by Moritz Lehmann of the University of Basel has shown that a drastic change to a warm water mode occurred in the western North Atlantic in the early 1970s. This change - the timing of which coincides with global warming - is unique in the last 2000 years

Jonah Goldberg: Dysfunctional Duo's undoing - latimes.com

If you agree with a solution, it doesn't seem ideological. But if you disagree with the proposed solution (or that there's a problem at all), the remedy might look very ideological indeed. Given Time's political agenda, it saw Schwarzenegger's decision to spend his political energies on the Global Warming Solutions Act as an exercise in "pragmatism."

This was ludicrous because California can no more do anything substantive about climate change than it can halt Iran's nuclear program.

In other words, even if you're on the climate change bandwagon, couldn't you say that the governor of the state with the nation's worst credit rating, a budget crisis more unbelievable than the plot of "Twins," a cratering manufacturing base and famously dysfunctional schools was making an ideologically blinkered decision to make global warming a priority, particularly given that the benefits of the law for California — and the world — will be somewhere between symbolic and trivial, while the costs will probably be huge?

Meanwhile, Bloomberg, who before snowmageddon reportedly took seriously the idea of being carried to the Oval Office by a groundswell of support from Americans who don't believe in labels, thinks it's not ideological to dedicate much of his mayoralty to fighting global warming by clogging the streets with bike lanes and hybrid taxis.