Still Waiting To Hear Fromm Romm/Dessler | Real Science

Last summer, Joe Romm and Andrew Dessler declared that Texas was in a permanent man-made drought, and that Rick Perry was pure evil for saying that the rains would return.

[Aug 2011]:  Rick Perry's Unanswered Prayers - NYTimes.com

Farmers cannot coax a kernel of grain from ground that looks like the skin of an aging elephant.

Is this Rick Perry’s fault, a slap to a man who doesn’t believe that humans can alter the earth’s climate —  God messin’ with Texas? No, of course not.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Only One Reason To Do This

There is only one reason to be concerned that fundraiser attendees might record the session — because one knows the candidate is giving tailored and mutually contradictory messages to different groups.   Obama has a different speech, I suppose, for the 1% than he does for the 99%.   Which is no big surprise, since it is a practice as old as modern campaigning* and one I am sure both parties engage in.  But it is probably a larger issue for Obama — when so much of a politician’s campaign style rests on demonizing certain groups, groups that are also large campaign contributors, it must be a tricky business tailoring his message.

Where Is The Obama Lynch Mob? | Real Science

Obama’s first act as the great unifying President, was to organize a lynch mob to go after AIG employees who received government funded bonuses – but he forgot to do that with Solyndra.

UN to Help Give World’s Poor Fairer Share of Carbon Credits - Bloomberg

UN Certified Emission Reduction credits for delivery in December have slumped 71 percent in the last 12 months to 3.65
euros ($4.69) a metric ton. The price plunged as a rush of investments boosted supplies while a failure of nations to agree
on a global climate deal left the Europe Union, where CERs can be used for compliance with the bloc’s emissions trading system,
as the main market for UN credits. They traded at a record low of 3.27 euros last month. China produces almost two-thirds of
all credits, the first of which were issued in 2005.