The emergence of Indian coal barons - The Times of India

MUMBAI: What is common between Anil Ambani, Gautam Adani, Madhusudan Rao and G V K Reddy? In a race to secure coal assets to fuel their power plants, these billionaires are fast emerging as global coal barons. The companies that they run - Reliance Power, Adani Power, Lanco Infratech and GVK - will feature among the top 10 coal miners in the world, behind Peabody and Shenhua Energy, once they start coal production in coming years.

For liberals, income inequality is the new global warming « The Enterprise Blog

In a way, Chait is correct that income inequality really resembled global warming. Both are issues that, to the extent they are even problems, could be be fixed though faster economic growth. And both serve as handy excuses for the Left to raise taxes and expand government.

Science, Ridicule and Redemption | The Resilient Earth

Look to the advocates of anthropogenic global warming—they are not open-minded and they certainly are not humble. Time after time, new observations have shown current climate theory to be inadequate. Instead of empirical evidence, climate scientists produce computer models. So, the next time someone tries to claim global warming is settled science because it is the “consensus view,” just remember the impossible quasicrystals. And when those brave scientists who dissent from climate change doctrine are called deniers and worse than criminals by alarmist blatherskites, recall the travails of Daniel Shechtman and his eventual triumph.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Germany's Energy Transition: Carbon-Free to Carbon-Full

Der Speigel asks whether Germany's ambitious energy transition is going according to plan. From the graph above, which is for Bavaria, it looks like Germany had better stock up on carbon offsets, because something looks to give and I suspect that it won't be the lights going out.

Editors’ personal opinions « Calder's Updates

What the new editorial means, in my opinion, is that the politicisation of science has now penetrated right through to the workaday rituals of publication. On no account must you publicise your new work prematurely, unless you do it to bash the climate sceptics or the Republican Party or supporters of Special Relativity or anyone else the editors happen to dislike today. In that case they’ll forgive you.