Fakegate: Are you being served? « The Daily Bayonet

It took less than a week for hippie triumphalism over ‘denialgate’ to turn into a full-fledged fiasco of epic proportions. DeSmogBlog is defiant for now, but that’ll only last until they get some good legal advice. Unless their lawyers are as good at lawyering as DeSmog is at PR. If that turns out to be the case, the Internet may collapse in on itself under the weight of the schadenfreude.

There just isn’t enough popcorn.

Climate change dispute may be moving into nation's classrooms - latimes.com

These are facts, not philosophical or religious dogma. Another fact: Sophisticated climate models [written in FORTRAN?] show that things are going to get a lot worse. It's bad enough that we're gambling our children's futures by doing so little to fight this problem; let's not ask their teachers to lie to them about it too.

AGI.it - Rocca di Mezzo sets Record Low Temperature

(AGI) Aquila - Marco Scozzafava, president of the meteorological association that manages 42 weather stations
throughout Lazio said a new record had been set. "The Aquila Caput Frigoris Meteorological Association says it has
registered, through its data logger, the newest cold weather record for the Apennines at -37.4 degrees centigrade on the
morning of Feb. 15, 2012 at the D'Eramo refuge on the Piani di Pezza" at Rocca di Mezzo. Scozzafava continued, saying
"Monitoring began in 2008 as part of the scientific mission called 'Progetto 40 sottozero" (40 below zero project). .

Obama’s Enviro-Fat Cat Welfare Program | FrontPage Magazine

In a blockbuster story published last week, Washington Post reporters Carol D. Leonnig and Joe Stephens outlined more of the details of the incestuous relationship that the administration and green energy companies share. With $80 billion of stimulus money set aside for so-called clean energy projects there was a huge temptation to cross ethical boundaries separating the private and public sectors and it appears that few people involved in the business were able to resist that kind of temptation.

For example, the Post story explains how venture capitalist Sanjay Wagle served on an Energy Department panel that decided which companies would receive a chunk of the $80 billion pie, even though Wagle’s former firm – Vantage Point Venture Partners – received $2.4 billion of those funds over the past three years.