Happy summer: Grab a jacket

[South Dakota] The calendar says it's summer. The thermometer doesn't.

Today marks the first official day of summer, but unseasonably cool temperatures and rainy skies canceled the opening day of swim lessons at Rapid City's outdoor pools on Monday
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Since it opened 10 days ago, Sioux Park's pool has been closed three times due to cold weather.

How the Supreme Court Just Amped Up Attacks Against the EPA | BNET

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the EPA’s authority, the fight will get even more intense. Climate advocates will put pressure on the White House and the EPA to start regulating emissions. Meanwhile, big industry will launch its own anti-EPA campaign and squeeze lawmakers, especially politically vulnerable ones, to strip the agency of its powers. It’s not going to be pretty.

Articles: Science and Smear Merchants

[Fred Singer] Oreskes is well-known from her 2004 article in Science that claimed a complete scientific consensus about manmade global warming; it launched her career as a polemicist. Her claim was based on examining the abstracts of some 900 published papers. Unfortunately, she missed more than 11,000 papers through an incorrect Internet search. She published a discreet "Correction"; yet she has never retracted her ideologically based claim about consensus. Al Gore still quotes her result, which has been contradicted by several, more competent studies (by Peiser, Schulte, Bray and von Storch; Lemonick in SciAm, etc).

Some seriously wishful thinking from “renewables” advocates | JunkScience Sidebar

Beck thinks renewables will get cheaper (how many decades have we put up with that refrain?) but there is no more chance of them being useful in the modern world now than there was 50 years ago, despite the fortunes of public monies wasted on them. Meanwhile Vilsack tries to pretend corporate welfare and burning food are good ideas.