Climate Battle: Round 2 | Wizbang

[Judith Curry] The use of ‘denier’ to label anyone who disagrees with the IPCC consensus leads to concerns about the IPCC being enforced as dogma, which is tied to how dissent is dealt with.

Greens Wage War On Clean Low-Carbon Renewable Energy

The most promising renewable energy of all is making pro-renewable Greens frightened and angry. It’s geothermal energy, which taps into the natural warmth below Earth's surface, providing an abundant heat source. The problem? New geothermal techniques requires hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and environmental crusaders have convinced themselves that fracking is evil.

Ethanol Vs The World: Renewable Energy As A Man-Made Disaster

Ethanol is a man-made disaster that could be stopped if the EPA or others in Washington cared for human health as much as they do power politics.

Sea Levels Ignore Government Forecasts

Have you got a beach house, for holidays or residence? If so, you have two big things to worry about.

First, will sea-level rises due to global warming undermine the foundations? Second, will your local council pass some regulation based on their sea-level projections, that will shred the value of your beach house?

Electric Cars Face Bleak Prospects As Europe Sales Stumble

Every self-respecting automobile manufacturer in Europe is planning to launch an all-electric vehicle soon, but the fact that sales are dying on the vine points to an expensive and embarrassing debacle when the next wave appears. "The electric vehicle market is dead. There is just no one with the political guts to sign the death certificate."