Why Global Warming Is Now an Economic Tax on the Middle Class | TriplePundit Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

I hesitate to propose public policy because I am an economist and not (thankfully) a politician. But the economics are so clear that eliminating the economic tax that global warming and unsustainabilty creates should be a consensus public policy issue for conservatives and liberals alike.

Twitter / jeffgoodell: Love Greenpeace's banned a

Love Greenpeace's banned anti-pipeline ad: "When there's a huge solar spill, it's just called a nice day." http://bit.ly/OEdOXp

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Who is the @Chronicle edit

Who is the @Chronicle editor (?) facilitating libelous attack http://bit.ly/Q4MLvF by head of Scaife-funded front group http://bit.ly/Lq8xCo

[The article that Mann didn't like in the tweet above]: A Culture of Evasion - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The committee exonerated Mann on the first three and punted on the fourth. Make of this what you will, but a review by the university’s vice president for research, who oversees grant-funded projects, does not have exactly the same standing as an investigation carried out by the former director of the FBI. Penn State has a history of treading softly with its star players. Paterno wasn’t the only beneficiary.