‘Is Wind Worth It?’ Not Really, Says the New York Times - By Charles C. W. Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online

As such, Wald’s unavoidable conclusion is that, “thus far, it is not economics that is driving wind energy growth; it is the renewable energy mandates in force in 29 states and the District of Columbia.” When the New York Times concedes that your movement is largely the product of government force, you know you’re in a losing battle.

Climate Ethicist: Why Should People in the Future Pay to Clean Up Our Mess? | ThinkProgress

Arguably, the biggest issue facing humanity at the moment is the looming global environmental crisis.
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Stephen Gardiner is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Program on Values in Society at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he specializes in ethics, political philosophy, and environmental ethics

The Paul Ehrlich Of Climatology Reveals His Latest Halloween Horror Visions

Rahmstorf, who has the unscientific habit of taking cyclic graphs and drawing straight trend lines along their upward or downward flanks and extending them all the way out to doomsday, presents the latest horror vision that has been haunting his mind lately. Indeed the visions seem to be getting more intense and vivid. In a piece in the Gulf Times he warns of “grave warning signs”.

Obviously he appears unaware of the fact that the Arctic all but melted away in the 1950s (see photo above) before rebounding to the record high levels of the 70s. You can’t start at the top of a cycle a draw a straight line along its downward flank all the way to yonder

Congratulations to Dr. Gavin Schmidt | Watts Up With That?

While we are polar opposites, and Dr. Schmidt can’t find it within himself to respond to any of my emails or to allow my comments and many others to appear on RealClimate, let me offer congratulations anyway.