US shoppers fail to go green

When asked to select the words associated with green consumers, the terms "responsible", "caring", "healthy" "innovative" and "smart" proved prominent. But more negative words like "weird" "annoying" and "self-obsessed" were also commonly-cited.

Global Climate, the Big Picture | Power Line

Most people do not understand how bad the data are, on which the IPCC and other alarmist groups rely. In order to draw sound conclusions, it is first necessary to reason from reliable data. The alarmists, who mostly control access to the data, have gone to great lengths to make this difficult.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Just imagine if this were

Just imagine if this were the Bush administration collecting scientist emails. Whew, thank goodness Obama's is. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/ …

New study (in Hungary) finds no significant...

New study (in Hungary) finds no significant difference between ecological footprints of “green” & “brown” consumers.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds global warming over past century was only about half of IPCC claims

A recent paper presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting finds global warming over past century was only about one-half [0.42°C] of that claimed by the IPCC [0.7-0.8°C]. The paper finds that in 2/3 (67%) of the weather stations examined, questionable adjustments were made to raw data that resulted in "increased positive trends, decreased negative trends, or changed negative trends to positive," whereas "the expected proportions would be 1/2 (50%)."

The Great American Drought: Climate Change? The New Dust Bowl? - Forbes

[Worstall] It’s difficult to deny that large areas of the US are undergoing drought conditions at the moment. But should we be assuming that this is a portent of climate change? Or even that it is a harbinger of a new Dust Bowl, as in the 1930? We cannot completely rule out either of those possibilities but the correct answers as yet are no and no.