Irony: Michael Mann to rant about skeptics being outside ‘scholarly venues’

There’s probably more to be said, but you get the idea. Mann has worked to exclude skeptics from “scholarly venues” and then has the chutzpah to criticize them for it.

Record October Snow on Mammoth Mountain, CA (Video)

“Mammoth Mountain, CA received over a foot of snow today,” says RF the Weather Nut. “Last year was a record breaking year with 668 inches of snow and yet in October 2010 they received just 10 inches of snow. Mammoth Mountain averages 5.2 inches of snow in October.”

Robert Bryce: Five Truths About Climate Change - WSJ.com

Will Happer, a professor of physics at Princeton and a skeptic about global climate change, recently wrote that the "contemporary 'climate crusade' has much in common with the medieval crusades." Indeed, politicians and pundits are hectored to adhere to the orthodoxy of the carbon-dioxide-is-the-only-climate-problem alarmists. And that orthodoxy prevails even though the most ardent alarmists have no credible plans to replace the hydrocarbons that now provide 87% of the world's energy.

It's time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant and reliable.

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