Science By Artillery Shell, Or Science By Cooperation? - James Taylor - Endpoint Analysis - Forbes

“Are you cowards?!” Scott Denning, an atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University who believes humans are causing dangerous climate change, challenged an audience of skeptics at the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change last week. Then, with an edge to his voice, Denning scolded the audience for contesting the precise degree of predicted future warming. “You are wasting your time,” said Denning.

Earth Has "Spare Tire"—And Ice Melt's Keeping It That Way

Earth isn't losing its "spare tire" as fast as it should be, according to new research

The Federally Mandated Dark Age - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

I have to show ID to throw away a light bulb but not to vote?

Fuel-Economy? Make It So! - By Charlie Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Jenkins puts his finger adroitly on the key problem, that the administration seems perpetually to mistake itself for Jean-Luc Picard. In Hollywood, one can simply raise one’s hand and say ‘make it so’ — physics, cost, real-world consequences be damned. Back in reality there are often good, complex reasons for the status quo. Reasons which tend not magically to disappear upon the arrival of a mandate.