- Bishop Hill blog - Further thoughts on carbon taxes

Now, let's suppose that I come up with a theory that our world is in danger of being taken over by a superrace of green lizards from the planet Beetlegeuse. Should we insure against that too?

I guess the question I'm asking is, what are the criteria that determine when a hypothesis of impending danger is sufficiently well-supported that insurance is required.

If a bunch of scientists say their models predict that there's a problem but their models seem unable to forecast anything very much, is that sufficient?

Sun and Clouds are Sufficient | Watts Up With That?

So it is clearly possible that CO2 is in the mix, which would not surprise me … but only if the climate sensitivity is as low as my calculations indicate. There’s just no room for CO2 if the sensitivity is as high as the IPCC claims, because almost every bit of the variation in temperature is already adequately explained by the net sun.

Articles: Export Natural Gas to Create Jobs

Does President Obama care more about jobs for Americans or about his own re-election chances?  A decision last week on natural gas exports provides the answer.

On Monday, the White House announced that it would postpone a decision until after the election on whether to allow natural gas exports to non-Free Trade Agreement countries.  While this is just one of a thousand decisions Obama has postponed for political reasons, it is an important one.  It puts hundreds of thousands of good jobs at risk.

...The only reason, it turns out, why the president is blocking LNG exports is his quaking fear of the environmental lobby.

Articles: Climate-Catastrophe Skeptics - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Shrink 'Em!

The National Wildlife Federation's new publication "The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States" gives wildlife a new meaning.  Citing evidence that many in the climate alarmist community are "frustrated and burned out," it quotes one member as trying to keep on persuading mankind that a climate apocalypse is at hand so "I will not be able to feel the angst or despair" of failure.