A World Without Coral Reefs - NYTimes.com

Coral reefs will be the first, but certainly not the last, major ecosystem to succumb to the Anthropocene

The Energy War: How Fossil-Fuel Democrats Became An Endangered Species - The Daily Beast

President Obama’s heavy-handed regulation of the booming old-energy economy—the moratorium on offshore drilling following the BP spoil, the decision to block the Keystone XL Pipeline, and the prospect of a fracking ban—and his embrace of green-energy policies has played well in the solidly Democratic post-industrial coastal economies that he also depends on for fund-raising. But it’s left him with few friends in the energy belt that spans the Great Plains, the Gulf Coast, Appalachia and now some parts of the old rustbelt, despite his election-year claims of an “all-of-the-above” energy policy.

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Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather. from @NRDC's blog: http://bit.ly/MpgP3z (via @thinkprogress)

Crazy summer is a result of 'global weirding', not warming - The National

On the face of it, a link does seem plausible. The strength of the jet streams is determined by the temperature difference between the equator and the poles, so if the poles warm up - as is predicted by most global warming models - the jet streams might be expected to get weaker.

That, in turn, should make them more susceptible to wandering off their normal paths, triggering "global weirding".

But mere plausibility isn't a sound basis for explaining the world's climate.

AEI's Carbon Tax Flirtations

To stick with the analogy for a bit, much like the intimidation tactics of gun control activists on gun rights supporters, environmental groups shout "denier", "the science is settled" and accuse those on the right of being "anti-science" simply as an attempt to stifle legitimate debate so they can have their way. They report out their agenda as "science" (Michael Mann, meet Michael Bellesiles). And they'll spare no effort to muzzle dissenting views because the facts aren't on their side.

These tactics have been laid bare by the Climategate emails and, even closer to home for an organization like AEI, by Fakegate. Yet AEI apparently still thinks it can pick up their carbon tax turd by the clean end.