Thanks to Michael Mann’s response, a newspaper censors a letter to the editor ex post facto | Watts Up With That?

UPDATE5: It appears we are witnessing the real time editing of this article in online archives. The original with the phrases Dr. Mannobjected to are disappearing from the main web page and archives and are being replaced with edited versions.

Oh yes, that wonderfully “successful” and totally pointless Montreal Protocol | JunkScience Sidebar

Should you care? No
Does this indicate anything other than a cold Northern winter? No
Is the “ozone layer” stable at any time? No (see “That ‘ozone depletion’ thing“
Do fluctuating stratospheric ozone levels indicate “loss”? No
Is this of any significance to humanity or the environment whatsoever? No
Is this just another “People bad, industry bad, chemicals bad” scam from misanthropes and would-be controllers of everything? You betcha!

The folly of calling carbon dioxide “carbon” | Climate Nonconformist

In a tonne of carbon, there are four times as many molecules as in a tonne of carbon dioxide. What are they taxing? Maybe I’m being too technical, but the distinction is important.

Call for Energy Price Controls: Has the 1970s Experience Been Forgotten? — MasterResource

The idea–called a buffer fund–is to establish a target price for retail gasoline (diesel, too, though they seem to have forgotten that part of the fuel supply) and use taxes or subsidies to maintain the target price over time.