Respect the science and don't call CO2 a pollutant | The Australian

CO2 is necessary to plant life and in regulating our temperature and climate. The level of CO2 prior to the industrial revolution in the 1700s was about 280 parts per million in the atmosphere and no one believes that level was excessive. Today that level is about 390ppm and CO2 has become a pollutant. At what level did this change of status occur and in which decade or generation?

EU Referendum: Not a dent in him

Now, the point of all this is that, in Pachauri's own little world, nothing has changed. The dramas and controversies of climate change have passed him by, not ruffling a single hair on his bronzed head. The world has stood still.

The IPCC’s assessment of the Greenpeace renewable energy scenario « Shub Niggurath Climate

At the minimum, it is evident that the baseline and on the scenarios are not truly independent, in terms of methodology and assumptions and it affects their inter-comparability. Clinical trials and meta-analyses rigorously control for such comparison biases which occur yet, on occasion. It is perplexing that important economic analyses would proceed with biases built in to its very structure, to reach wide-ranging conclusions as the IPCC’s report did.

LaPlante: Big Bulb + Big Green = Big Profit Bulb Ban | themichiganview.com | The Michigan View

The responsibility for the ban on the incandescent bulb lies in part on environmental groups. But there are other guilty parties, too, including leading Republicans - and, incredibly, industry giants.

Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby uncovers some startling quotations from Philips Electronics and leading, uhm, lights of the industry.

"The use of efficiency mandates to snuff out the standard light bulb was an exercise of unadulterated crony capitalism," writes Jacoby. "It came about after big bulb manufacturers, frustrated by their customers' refusal to switch from cheap throwaway incandescents to the far more profitable compact fluorescents touted by greens, decided to play hardball."