- Bishop Hill blog - The implications of Hansen's tax

By coincidence, the Guardian carries a preview of the speech James Hansen will give in Edinburgh next week (I will be in attendance). Hansen is going to use the platform to issue a call for a global carbon tax. It seems hard to envisage any way this would be brought about without some form of global government/governance. I imagine this would be something along the lines of the UN - a huge bureaucracy nominally answerable to national governments but in practice entirely unaccountable.

Jonah Goldberg: Obama energy policy: very few of the above | JunkScience.com

In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get re-elected.

MUST SEE YOUTUBE: Alex Jones: Marc Morano: YouTube Now Banning Videos Critical of Global Warming Alarmism | Climate Realists

Alex Jones gets an update from Marc Morano concerning their recent (4-2-12) Nightly News Interview that was banned by You Tube over some nebulous community guidelines violation. In this country you are not allowed to have a discussion about University Professors who call for your "treatment" if you don't worship on the alter of the now disproved theory of anthropogenic global warming and or climate change. Once they take our free speech tyranny is just around the corner.

Does It Matter If Electric Car Maker Fisker Fails? - Technology Review

Tesla and new fuel-economy standards have already jump-started battery-powered vehicles.

Global warming supplement in Monday’s Patriot Ledger - Quincy, MA - The Patriot Ledger

The 16-page supplement, “Save the Earth,” is a publication of GateHouse Media New England, The Patriot Ledger’s parent company, and is sponsored by National Grid.

The supplement will feature hands-on activities geared toward children, to teach the value of recycling and the ways human behavior can impact the environment. It is being published in recognition of Earth Day. The insert also provides topics for class discussion.

It's Holy Week in the Arctic Circle | News Virginian

The temperature there recently was 52 degrees—below zero.