The Urban Heat Island effect: Could Africa be more affected than the US? « JoNova

The mystery: We know when we drive through a city that temperatures warm from the fringe to the middle. We know UHI is real, but how much does it affect the official records? Is a 2010 city 0.3 K hotter than a 1960 city? How would we know?

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 10th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Americans should encourage global warming to run for office, UK taxpayers are on the hook forever for wind subsidies and California forgot that even global warming laws need environmental assessments to be legal.

Congress gives you a choice: CFL or LED (but no light bulb) | Heliogenic Climate Change

When bulbs break at home, residents should sweep them up with a special broom while wearing gloves and a mask, he advised. Crews dispatched to clean up car crashes or broken traffic fixtures should don protective gear and handle the material as hazardous waste.”

Michael Crichton’s Legacy « NoFrakkingConsensus

What this all means, of course, is that a company that merely wants to introduce a new version of Aspirin gets subjected to a rigorous examination that makes climate science look amateurish by comparison.

What is wrong with this picture? How does it make sense for large parts of the world to adopt fundamental lifestyle changes (see here, here, here, here and here) before we’ve even double-checked the scientific findings?