Would You Let a Social Worker Handle Your Investment Portfolio? - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Michigan senator Debbie Stabenow has a graduate degree in social work from Michigan State University. So this week, she invested $2 billion of your money in the lithium-ion-battery industry.

Ain’t spending other people’s money fun?

Ben Jervey | David Legates Asked To Step Down As Delaware State Climatologist

Cindy Baxter of Greenpeace US’s Research Department believes that the University’s decision to replace Legates as Delaware State Climatologist likely involved his close ties to the controversial Soon.

Australia counts the cost of environmental lunacy – and plots its sweet revenge – Telegraph Blogs

$24.5 billion is too bloody much, too bloody much by far, for Australia to pay for the privilege of reducing the world’s temperature, by 2020, by 1/4000th of a degree.

Yep, you read that aright. Australian Prime Minister Julia “Toast” Gillard has hit on the ingenious idea of clobbering one of the world’s most thriving – and also one of the most carbon-intensive – economies with a tax on one of its main industrial by-products, CO2, which will punish business, hamstring economic growth, boost unemployment and make life for everyone outside the enviro-rent-seeking professions more difficult and expensive. And all in order to achieve the wonderful goal of ensuring that by 2020 the world’s temperature will be altered with such refinement and subtlety that not even the most sophisticated measuring equipment yet devised is likely to notice the difference.

One third living in fuel poverty - Stirling Observer

The proportion of households living in fuel poverty in Scotland is nearly twice as high as that of England, official figures have shown.

Almost a third of Scottish households (32.7%) spend at least 10% of income on fuel, the official definition of fuel poverty, compared with 18.4% of households in England.