Pascal Bruckner: The Ideology of Catastrophe - WSJ.com

You'll get what you've got coming! That is the death wish that our misanthropes address to us. These are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us suffering if we have the presumption to refuse to listen to them. Catastrophe is not their fear but their joy. It is a short distance from lucidity to bitterness, from prediction to anathema.

Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay? | Real Science

Isn’t that convenient.
NOAA adds a little more than 0.5 degrees on to 2012 temperatures, and subtracts a little less than 0.1 degrees from 1910 temperatures. By doing this, they were able to make a press release saying that 2012 was warmer than 1910.
Chances are that the raw thermometer data was warmer in 1910. But we will never know, because they only release numbers which have been tampered with.

Not Too Hot to Handle - By Charles Kenny | Foreign Policy

The authors of a recent study published in the journal Nature conclude that the forecasted future effects of rising temperatures on malaria  "are at least one order of magnitude smaller than the changes observed since about 1900 and about two orders of magnitude smaller than those that can be achieved by the effective scale-up of key control measures." In other words, climate change is and will likely remain a small factor in the toll of malaria deaths into the foreseeable future.

This green tax on conservatories is just the start of a red-tape nightmare for homeowners | Mail Online

Anyone thinking of building a new conservatory, replacing their old boiler or putting in new windows had better move fast.
If they wait a couple of years they could find themselves falling foul of a deluge of new ‘green’ red tape that will leave them having to pay thousands of pounds extra.