Obama administration hires former TransCanada lobbyist | Grist

Apparently the Obama administration has given up on even pretending it can make an unbiased decision on Keystone XL. After hiring a TransCanada-affiliated firm to do the environmental assessment for the pipeline -- a move so corrupt that even Congresspeople noticed -- the administration has now taken on a former TransCanada lobbyist as a senior advisor.

Let's prize climate skepticism | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/25/2011

The latest Nobel Prize for chemistry has confirmed what science students are taught early on: that all scientific theories are intrinsically uncertain; that science progresses through skepticism and attacks on existing theories, and that successful attacks are sometimes rewarded with Nobel Prizes. It follows that skepticism about global warming, far from being antiscience, is in keeping with the standard scientific approach - and could one day fetch a skeptic a Nobel Prize.

The best social critiques see society from outside. | ScottishSceptic

Because we are not part of the “social consensus”, we do not understand society and how it works, what it values, how that consensus communicates, so we are completely useless at getting our message across to those who need it most.

The IPCC “Delinquent teenager” gets air time | Watts Up With That?

Donna Laframboise is interviewed on SunTV about her new book. 7:40, but well worth your time.