Republican candidates, global warming, evolution, and reality | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

...Of course, that’s because what he said was outrageously awful. About climate science, he said, "…just because you have a group of scientists that have stood up and said here is the fact, Galileo got outvoted for a spell." That analogy is so ridiculous it’s hard to know where to start; but a good place might be to simply say that Galileo had the advantage of being right. Just because a tiny fraction of people claim global warming isn’t real, or that humans aren’t responsible, doesn’t make them correct. Especially when going up against the overwhelming evidence [like what, specifically?] compiled by a consensus of 97% of scientists who study climate as their career.

Farron Cousins | Meet Marlo Lewis: The Dirty Energy Industry’s Best Friend

Marlo Lewis, a man with a Ph.D. from one of the most distinguished universities on the planet, honestly wants the Keystone XL Pipeline built for little more than his personal pleasure so he can give the finger to people who care about the environment.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Copernicus Meets the Greenhouse Effect

Astrophysicist Joseph Postma has a new recommended essay on the misconceptions of the 'greenhouse effect' paradigm that have resulted in falacious climate alarm:

Climate Common Sense: "Banks don't Understand the Technology" but Obama Does!

With Australia setting up a 10 billion fund for similar projects the green carpetbaggers are out in force down under and it would be too much to hope that Gillard and her financially incompetent crew would learn from the Obama disasters .