Mack touts ‘Penny Plan’ to balance federal budget at town hall meeting » Naples Daily News

Monday night, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, brought his “Penny Plan” to balance the federal budget home to the voters to ask for their support.
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One woman asked why Mack seemingly went back on his plan to protect Florida’s environment when he came out in support of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would erect a pipeline between Canada and Texas. She asked why Mack wouldn’t support clean energy solutions for the state.

“I am all for clean energy for the state,” Mack said. “The problem I have is when the federal government turns away from known reserves and tries to move the market. You ask why I support the pipeline? It’s because it will allow us to stop supporting Hugo Chavez.”

Quadrant Online - Damp prophet of doom

If both more rain and less rain verifies it, the only way it would not be verified is if rainfall remained consistent year after year - which really would be an unprecedented climate change in this land “of drought and flooding rains” as the poet Dorothea Mackellar described it a hundred years ago.

The Journal of Climate & the IPCC « NoFrakkingConsensus

...Is this not too incestuous for words?

Is no one concerned that there is no distance whatsoever – never mind anything approaching a firewall – between the people who decide whether a study deserves to join the haloed ranks of the scientific peer-reviewed literature – and the people who then write IPCC reports declaring what this peer-reviewed literature tells us about climate change?

And let’s not even talk about what percentage of the published papers authored by some of those mentioned above earned their peer-reviewed status via the Journal of Climate. That’s another story for another day.