State Farm drops Heartland | Planet3.0

consider that, had Peter Gleick not revealed the contributors to the group, the pressure on State Farm would never have materialized and the contribution of State Farm to those ignorant, self-serving fools would never have been challenged.

Good: @State Farm ends support for @HeartlandInst,...

[Revkin]:  Good: @State Farm ends support for @HeartlandInst, posting this on Facebook: “State Farm is ending its association with the Heartland Institute. This is because of a recent billboard campaign launched by the Institute.” My guess is Scott Mandia’s Huffington piece helped.

The Winter That Wasn’t In Turkey | Real Science

Climate experts tell us that the warm weather which typified this winter was due to global warming. They also tell us that the bitter cold weather which typified this winter was due to global warming. And it was all due to the missing Arctic ice, which is not actually missing.

Climate expert appears to be another term for imbecile.

The Reference Frame: Brontosauruses' flatulence: as much methane as civilization

However, if they were substantial emitters, relatively speaking, it's clear that their effect on the climate could have been neglected and they have almost nothing to do with the Jurassic's temperatures being higher than the temperatures in some other epochs. That's why the "warming interpretations" of the research are clearly driven by something else than the actual scientific content of the work – they're driven by the desire to promote the greenhouse effect as an important climate driver.

Except that we know – and the estimate above showed – that it wasn't an important climate driver in the era of the dinosaurs and we probably know this fact with a greater degree of certainty than a similar proposition about the current age.