Climate anger dangerous, says German physicist | The Australian

ANGER against scientists involved in the climate debate is reaching dangerous levels and it's only a matter of time before one is murdered, says leading German physicist Hans Schellnhuber.

Professor Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change member, said he was amazed by the intensity of the political uproar in Australia over a relatively soft carbon-pricing policy.
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"As I tell my colleagues from time to time, 'Some day some madman will draw a pistol and shoot you'.

"It will happen -- to me or somebody else. I'm pretty sure about that."

Professor Schellnhuber said the intolerance of science was much worse in the US, but he was surprised by the intensity of the debate in Australia.

The Green Economy Withers - Investors.com

Energy: Even after fudging numbers and ignoring the huge subsidies, a liberal think tank reports that growth in the alternative-energy sector lags the rest of the economy.

Green jobs were supposed to be our salvation, both for the earth and for the economy, according to the Obama administration. White House policy based on this flawed premise led to offshore and onshore drilling bans and the locking-up of energy-rich lands while huge alternative energy subsidies (aka "investments") found their way into the stimulus and other legislation.

As happens when government tries to pick winners and losers, the government lost — no, we all lost. As has happened in countries such as Spain, this misallocation of resources has succeeded only in stalling our economy as unemployment and debt grow.

Grey wolves from Alberta help avert death of an ecosystem

“The loss of these animals may be humankind’s most pervasive influence on nature [Wait, not CO2 emissions?],” the team of 24 scientists from the United States, Europe, Africa and Canada are reporting Friday in the journal Science.