[Must be a bunch of evil old conservative rich racist Caucasian stupid males who hate their grandchildren]:  Mont. tribe renews bid to tap 9B ton coal cache | AP Texas News

BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana's Crow tribe and an Australian company on Friday renewed their bid to tap into the reservation's huge fossil fuel reserves, with a scaled-down proposal for a coal-to-liquids plant and the new pursuit of coal exports to Asia.

Reality as a Failed State | Beyond The Beyond

“What many techno-scientists fail to understand - and thus find most frustrating - about dealing with climate change deniers is that the denier has no real interest in engaging at the scientist’s level of reality.

“The point, for the climate denier, is not that the truth should be sought with open-minded sincerity – it is that he has declared the independence of his corner of reality from control by the overarching, techno-scientific consensus reality. He has withdrawn from the reality forced upon him and has retreated to a more comfortable, human-sized bubble.

“In these terms, the denier’s retreat from consensus reality approximates the role of the cellular insurgents in Afghanistan vis-a-vis the American occupying force: this overarching behemoth I rebel against may well represent something larger, more free, more wealthy, more democratic, or more in touch with objective reality, but it has been imposed upon me (or I feel it has), so I am going to withdraw from it into illogic, emotion and superstition and from there I am going to declare war upon it.

“So, from this point of view, we can meaningfully refer to deniers, birthers, Tea Partiers and so forth as “reality insurgents”

[Let them ride bikes]: Carbon tax will hit rescue choppers Local Gold Coast News | goldcoast.com.au | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

THE green tax could ground the Gold Coast's rescue choppers if the Federal Government refuses to give them a break over the carbon levy.