That Pesky Apocalypse « The Positive Brain

To be fair, it’s not just the Jesussed among us who fall prey to this panic of presentism. Myriad scare stories have been floated and foiled about the eminent, total annihilation of the planet by human impact on the environment–cooling, warming, or otherwise–with their own history of bankrupt predictions and subsequent revisions.

Oil “subsidy” and “tax breaks” nonsense

The "green" agenda – to use mandates, subsidies, regulations and taxes to coerce a shift to "renewable" energy and “fundamentally transform” our energy, economic and social structure – is rationalized largely by fears of "dangerous manmade global warming." It is deceptive, costly, environmentally harmful, and devoid of genuine scientific evidence to support its alarmist claims.

Matt Ridley on Inconvenient Truths About 'Renewable' Energy | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com

The hydrocarbons in the earth's crust amount to more than 500,000 exajoules of energy. (This includes methane clathrates—gas on the ocean floor in solid, ice-like form—which may or may not be accessible as fuel someday.) The whole planet uses about 500 exajoules a year, so there may be a millennium's worth of hydrocarbons left at current rates.

Too Much Medical Marijuana In Boulder | Real Science

That is what smoking the whacky weed will do for you. Mars has 95% CO2, and the partial pressure of CO2 in Mars atmosphere is about an order of magnitude larger than on Earth. Yet temperatures are extremely cold on Mars. How did the Boulder author miss that part?