Climate Science Goes Megalomaniacal » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

The Guardian report is important, because it inadvertently shines a light on how the intersection of money and groupthink among insular cohesive groups sharing a common interest is discrediting climate science in particular, but also science in general.

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Rick Santorum slams 'reign of environmental terror' - Alex Guillen and Juana Summers - POLITICO.com

Liberal politicians and green groups are exaggerating the dangers of hydraulic fracturing to scare people and raise money, Rick Santorum said Thursday in a wide-ranging rant against environmental activists.

The failure of cap-and-trade legislation in 2009 was the “politicization of science,” Santorum said.

In fact, he added, the Republican Party is “the truth party.”

“You hear all the time, the left: ‘Oh, the conservatives are the anti-science party.’ No we’re not. We’re the truth party,” the former Pennsylvania senator said at a campaign event in Oklahoma City. “Because the left is always looking for a way to control you. They’re always trying to make you feel guilty so you’ll give them power so they can lord it over you. They do it on the environment all the time.”

Environmentalists use universal desires for clean water, clean air and conservation to “distort the truth in order to get you to give them authority.”

India Says 27 Nations to Discuss Retaliation on EU Airline Levy - Bloomberg

India, China and the U.S. will be among at least 27 nations that will discuss retaliatory steps following the European Union’s extension of its emissions market
to aviation, according to an Indian aviation ministry official.

Alcoa seeks extra funds to offset carbon price hit | The Australian

THE Gillard government will be pressured by global aluminium giant Alcoa and Victoria to cut a better deal under the carbon tax for its struggling Point Henry aluminium smelter in Geelong as part of a broader assistance package to save 600 jobs at the plant.