Thursday, September 22, 2011

Terry Anderson: How About a Green Tea Party? - WSJ.com
The GTP would not be for you if you think increasing Washington bureaucracy budgets will produce a cleaner environment.
Blog: More evidence warmists wrong
Governments, media, and environmental groups continue to beat the drum for a fundamental restructuring of society, a restructuring that is not needed because there is no crisis. But too much has been invested in this already, and too much is to be gained by statists to give it up. Increasingly, Global Warming resembles eugenics - a half-cocked theory hell bent on transforming the political and social landscape.

We know how eugenics turned out; a pseudo-science that ended in Hitler's ovens and a world war. Ideas - even ridiculous half baked ones - have consequences.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Alan Siddons on the negative-feedback cooling effect of clouds
Nevertheless, one mustn’t lose sight of the big picture. Vaporized water steals heat from the earth’s surface. Becoming a cloud, it steals even more. Only after it has lost heat to its colder surroundings is a cloud born in daytime able to give back some heat to a landscape at night. But what it gives back doesn’t come close to what it took away. So the net effect of clouds and of cloud formation is, reasonably enough, to cool. This should have been understood a long time ago.
Blinded By Green Light - Investors.com
Leadership: The administration is bent on finalizing as many as 15 loan guarantees for green energy ventures before the stimulus deadline. How detached from reality can this White House be?

The administration is separated from the real world on two levels.

On one, the White House is operating as if there were no Solyndra scandal.

On the other, the White House acts as if its ideas are so brilliant that the laws of economics don't apply them.

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