New NASA Salt Mapper to Spice Up Climate Forecasts - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

While ancient Greek soothsayers believed they could foretell the future by reading the patterns in sprinkled salt, today's scientists have learned that they can indeed harness this invaluable mineral to foresee the future -- of Earth's climate.

YouTube - Stopping the Coming Ice Age (Part 1)

In the 1970s there was increasing awareness that estimates of global temperatures showed cooling since 1945. [Via Bishop Hill]

Dear Sierra Club (Canada): I Resign Over Your Anti-Environmental Wind Support — MasterResource

Editor Note: This post is indicative of growing grassroot opposition to industrial wind development from traditional left-of-center environmentalists. Note how economics and affordability is part of the argument; indeed, protecting the wallet of the little guy and gal was once a core principle of those who would otherwise call themselves traditional environmentalists.

Articles: Naomi Oreskes, Conspiracy Queen

The global warming scare is rapidly collapsing. Scientists outside of the global warming bubble are pointing out the flaws in the science and a coterie of well-informed bloggers is getting out the message by bypassing the establishment media where critics' voices are generally blocked. Nature is helping because the earth and the oceans are failing to warm according to script.

That a conspiracist like Naomi Oreskes would be welcomed by the global warming scientific establishment and invited to speak at the December 2010 American Geophysical Union meeting is a symptom of increasing desperation. The global warming advocates have dug themselves into a deep hole and they can't seem to stop digging. Ironically Oreskes spoke at a meeting where Exxon-Mobil was the biggest financial contributor[ii]. Apparently it's not a conspiracy if Exxon-Mobil gives its money to the right people.