Harry Reid promotes crony capitalism, with Chinese cronies | Power Line

So, under the guise of promoting clean energy creating jobs, Harry Reid and the Obama administration are promoting the interests of Democratic donors, the law firm where Reid’s son is a partner, the Red Chinese, and lord knows who else. And they are doing so at the expense of taxpayers who ultimately bear the cost of land giveaways and stimulus programs.

Unfortunately, this is business as usual for the corrupt leaders of the Democratic party.

Climate Change and the Fate of a Million Kids | Mother Jones

If you had to pick ground zero for climate change, you might pick the Sahel, the grasslands between the Sahara in the north and African tropical rainforests in the south...
The global warming casualty list already includes 150,000 additional people killed every year, mostly from disease and malnutrition. That number is projected to grow. According to the National Research Defense Council, heat waves could kill 150,000 Americans alone by 2099

Flashback: Settled science: Every place is allegedly "Climate change's ground zero"
'Climate Concensus' Data Need a More Careful Look — Letters to the Editor - WSJ.com

[Cohen/Happer/Lindzen] In his Aug. 6 op-ed, "A New Climate-Change Consensus," Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp speaks of "the trend—a decades-long march toward hotter and wilder weather." We have seen quite a few such claims this summer season, and Mr. Krupp insists that we accept them as "true." Only with Lewis Carroll's famous definition of truth, "What I tell you three times is true," is this the case.

But repetition of a fib does not make it true. As one of many pieces of evidence that our climate is doing what it always does, consider the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's year-by-year data for wet and dry years in the continental U.S.

From 1900 to the present, there are only irregular, chaotic variations from year to year, but no change in the trend or in the frequency of dry years or wet years. Sometimes there are clusters of dry years, the most significant being the dry Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. These tend to be followed by clusters of wet years.

Despite shrill claims of new record highs, when we look at record highs for temperature measurement stations that have existed long enough to have a meaningful history, there is no trend in the number of extreme high temperatures, neither regionally nor continentally. We do see the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s setting the largest number of record highs, at a time when it is acknowledged that humans had negligible effect on climate.