Mr. Worthing: Double Standards

In an article 'What does it take to get green policies implemented in government?' Duncan Brack, Chris Huhne’s former special adviser and now a Green Alliance associate, says

It therefore follows that NGOs, think tanks, and others need to be even more prepared to try and influence party policy in detail than they have been before. Time to start thinking about the next election …

Surely not? Isn't this exactly what the hippies have been accusing Heartland of?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds extreme droughts were more common 200-300 years ago

A paper published today in Environmental Research Letters uses tree-ring proxies to reconstruct drought conditions of the American Southeast from 1665 to 2010. The authors find "The reconstruction shows that the recent droughts are not unprecedented over the last 346 years. Indeed, droughts of extended duration occurred more frequently between 1696 and 1820. Our results indicate that the era in which local and state water supply decisions were developed and the period of instrumental data upon which it is based are amongst the wettest since at least 1665."

EU Referendum: We should have expected this

Thus, while our own climateers warble on about winning the intellectual arguments, which indeed they are doing, the great EU climate steamroller trundles on regardless, fuelling by the millions extracted from unwilling European taxpayers.

It matters not that the EU is losing the argument – this is not a democracy, where such things matter. The EU has the power, our money and a policy framework. To do its deeds, it needs nothing else.

Unsustainable: CSUC Campus cops ditching Diggler electric scooters | Watts Up With That?

This is another one of those “brilliant” sustainable ideas by the sustainability cabal at Chico State University (inspired by Dr. Mark Stemen) gone horribly wrong.