2011 in energy and environmental policy - The Washington Post

1) Global warming wouldn’t go away. Perhaps the most salient fact about environmental politics in the United States is that one of the two major political parties — the GOP — tends not to believe in climate change. And yet, the planet’s still warming. Greenhouse-gas emissions had a record rise last year after a brief post-recession lull. All told, 2011 will likely turn out to be the 10th-warmest, year on record, and the warmest year by far that featured the cooling effects of La Niña.

Meanwhile, the United States was battered by 12 natural disasters costing $1 billion or more, a new record. While those snowstorms and hurricanes and tornadoes can’t all be blamed on climate change (scientists are still trying to sort much of this out), it was a portent of the toll that freak weather events could take in a warming world.

Why Don’t I Want To Donate To Wikipedia? | Real Science

Wikipedia needs money. They provide lots of valuable information, but I don’t want to donate to them because they have allowed their pages about climate to be hijacked by unscrupulous people who consistently censor any honest discussion. This makes Wikipedia a propaganda outlet.

If you want my money Jimmy, clean up your act.

Another Green Industry Failure - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Now the snowball of bad investments has claimed another victim: Saginaw’s GlobalWatt solar company.

On The IPCC’s Undue Confidence In Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Models – A Summary Of Recent Posts | Watts Up With That?

I’ve placed Bob’s Figure 21 at the top of this post, because it shows something quite interesting, note to caption in red, upper left. – Anthony