Three Polls, Two Flops and a Polar Flip » Climate Resistance

There are two things going on here. First, NGOs like Greenpeace have campaigned long and hard against cheaper energy. Cheap energy is anathema to environmentalists. Now that campaign has turned into material reality, Greenpeace are trying to distance themselves from it, to pretend that higher prices have been caused by energy companies profit-seeking, not by the policies they have sought. Second, there is a material possibility of abundant and cheap natural gas production in the UK. And the words ‘shale gas’ and ‘fracking’ are conspicuous across all these reports and surveys by their absence. They don’t dare even utter them. Their claims about renewable energy providing jobs, by protecting the UK from volatility in the global market would shatter if the global market began to respond to shale gas discoveries. The UK’s energy policies are themselves resting on the hope that fossil fuel prices will rise into the 2020s and beyond. If they do not, then the UK will be left with a legacy of commitments to expensive policies, subsidies and infrastructure.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Pushing Back on Extreme Nonsense

Over the long term I have every confidence that scientific questions will be resolved using the tools of science. In the meantime, it sure is nice to see these prominent scientists standing up for the integrity of their field, even if it means sticking their necks out and risking criticism from a few overly enthusiastic scientists and reporters.

Stumptalk: Obama's energy guilt trips » Opinion » Crossville Chronicle, Crossville, TN

In typical fashion, Obama wants to use social guilt to motivate change. By its very nature, guilt is an emotion that paralyzes effective assertive behavior. Guilt is a human emotion that is astonishingly easy to induce and is very useful for manipulating individuals and groups. More on that in a future column. If enough Americans can be made to experience fraudulent guilt about America’s energy use they can be convinced to support a fraudulent Green Energy agenda just in order to feel good about themselves. Thus Obama has sold the nation on pursuit of a Green Energy agenda that is based upon an emerging technology that will not be ready for mass production or practical use for many years.

The free market is very effective at evaluating and supporting new products and technologies while governments are notorious failures. Just ask anyone from the old Socialist/Communist nations that relied upon central planning bureaucracy to produce junk. Obama’s companies (Solyndra, Evergreen Energies, Beacon Power, Enerl, and many others) have gone bankrupt because the market will not accept their “Green” products. Let us not forget the over-hyped Obama Chevy Volt that has been pulled from the market “for several months” due to overpowering disinterest from the free market.

When even the most devout start to question their faith | Climate Nonconformist

The man who devised the pseudoscientific, collectivist theory of a Gaia/superorganism has conceded to being alarmist.

Why Arctic Sea Ice Will Never Cross The 1979-2000 Average « Black's Whitewash

One word.  Politics.