Jim Lovelock Confirms Growing Doubt About Climate Predictions & Green Policies

The scientific maverick James Lovelock says climate catastrophe is not so certain as he previously suggested. "There's no great certainty about what the future is going to be so legislation based on green pressure to say 'in 2050 the temperature will be so much' is not really very good science at all."

Feds 'unlikely' to meet climate goals: Audit

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is in the dark about the economic costs of its climate change policies and needs to carefully weigh the risks of scaling back federal oversight of industrial development, warned Parliament's environment watchdog Tuesday.

Scott Vaughan, the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, made the comments after tabling an audit in Parliament that concluded Canada was "unlikely" to meet Harper's own climate change goals while it faced a $7.7-billion liability over sites that were mostly contaminated decades earlier during an age of weak environmental oversight.

ND Deer Pop. Suffers From Harsh Winters, Fewest Number of Tags Issued Since '88 | Field & Stream

Just how brutal for northern plains wildlife were the winters of 2008-10? So bad that the number of deer tags available for North Dakota's upcoming 2012 deer season is the lowest number since 1988.

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Greenlandia

If someone were to create a spoof of today’s green culture, the self-consciously hip, do-gooder types who aim to save “mother earth” for future generations (rather than, say, the billions of people already in dire need of a helping hand), it would be called Greenlandia...

A big problem for the U.S. green movement is that its culture is easily parodied. For example, watch this devastating South Park episode titled, “Smug Alert.” Being associated with the green movement is now seen as problematic for some, like this person who writes at Grist:

I believe in climate change. I ride my bike everywhere, I work at a solar company, I buy organic and local when I can. I am young, liberal, and idealistic. But I’m not an environmentalist.

In Europe, Environmentalism is a political force to contend with. In the United States, it is mocked and marginalized.