US Navy wastes money on biofuel | Climate Nonconformist

Would you buy fuel priced four-times that of what you would normally pay? The US Navy would.

“Why Do People Still Deny Climate Change?” | Power Line

Professional apocalyptics like Lyons and Gore have no clue that they are the best allies the climate skeptics have.  I hope Gore, Lyons, and others keep writing these kind of articles.  Make our job so easy.  Of course, the purpose of such articles is to serve the needs of moral preening on the part of the author.  It’s hard to believe they think they are actually persuading anyone at this point.

Okay, I guess I have to make this simple for Lyons: no one is “denying” climate change.  Most people have the good sense to notice (or read history) that the climate changes a lot.  What people contest is the opinion that we are going to experience a catastrophic 4 degrees C of further warming 100 years from now based solely on computer models with more flaws than a 50-year old swimsuit model, and still more that people like Al Gore and James Hansen and the UN are the right people to solve the problem even if it were well-founded.  The real denialists are the people who won’t reckon with this point of view.

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ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Cindy McNew writes: “While I agree it’s idiotic–it’s more, it’s a first potentially really big in-your-house salvo in the Green religion wars. I don’t mean to sound overly dramatic, but a lot of those folks would like to take away your clothes dryer and your trash can, too, and replace them with a clothesline and a compost bin. Low-flow toilets and shower heads are minor annoyances compared to being required to have a houseful of ugly and dangerous florescent bulbs. The repeal can’t come soon enough. Signing that law and “No Child Left Behind” are really the only things I know for sure that I need to be irritated with President Bush for.”

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CLIMATE-CHANGE STORMTROOPERS GO AFTER VOLKSWAGEN. Ha. Before you followed the link, you thought I was engaging in hyperbole about the stormtroopers, didn’t you? But as you can see, I was merely being descriptive.