Carnivores for Climate Change | Power Line

The real agenda, I suppose, is to force the rest of us to be vegetarians. The hoaxers and bureaucrats who stir up global warming hysteria would no more stop eating filet mignon than they would give up their private jets. They just want power over the rest of us. Thankfully, hardly anyone is silly enough to believe that humanity can regulate the Earth’s climate by eating tofu instead of bacon. Still, next time you are in a restaurant, it might be fun to order a 32-ounce Porterhouse. In addition to all the usual reasons, you will be defying some of the world’s most obnoxious busybodies.

For Rio Environmental Summit, Low Expectations - WSJ.com

An environmental meeting this week in Brazil may not accomplish much of note. But promoters say that's OK.

Insurer’s Climate Change Claims: A Mountain of Lies |

I’ll go through the claims made by Kaiser Permanente’s spokeswoman Kathy Gerwig, one by one.

U.N. sees natural gas a key to forests, helping poor | Reuters

(Reuters) - Natural gas, including non-traditional shale gas, should play a major role in cutting greenhouse gases, protecting forests and improving the health and living standards of the world's poor, the co-head of a U.N. sustainable energy program said on Monday.

UVa board meeting ends in heckling | Watts Up With That?

Readers may recall my earlier report on the strange weekend ouster of UVa president Teresa Sullivan last week where I suggested there might be a Michael Mann connection because supposedly he was offered the Kington chair, and the fellow whose namesake is on it allegedly called the emergency weekend stealth meeting leaving some board members behind. UVa has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting FOIA requests from the American Enterprise Institute and Attourney General Ken Cuccinelli for Mann’s emails related to his publication of MBH98 done while at UVa, and from what I hear, this issue has been very unpopular with some alumni and has resulted in some fund raising issues under Sullivan’s tenure.

Now, in the middle of this turmoil, word on the street is that Michael Mann will not get the Kington Chair...