Green Weenie of the Year: “Final Solution” Proposed for Climate “Deniers” | Power Line

The winner of Power Line’s coveted first annual Green Weenie of the Year Award goes to Prof. Richard Parncutt of the University of Graz, Austria, for his recent suggestion that climate skeptics deserve the death penalty.

UN should ditch "fruitless" climate talks, launch bank: Sindicatum - News - Point Carbon

LONDON, Dec 24 (Reuters Point Carbon) - The United Nations should ditch “fruitless” annual climate talks and establish an international bank to help combat climate change more effectively, the CEO of Sindicatum Sustainable Resources wrote in UK newspaper The Independent on Friday.

Trees dying, study to find out how

Machines click and roar as they pump warm air into 12 of the chambers, replicating the 7-degree rise in temperature predicted to occur in coming years. Seven of these chambers are also water-deprived.

C. Boyden Gray: Shale Gas And America’s Winston Churchill Moment | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Thanks to America’s vast, unexpected new natural-gas supplies, the nation faces a once-in-a-lifetime choice. Not since 1911, when Winston Churchill, then Britain’s first lord of the Admiralty, decided to convert the Royal Navy from coal to oil power has a nation seen such an opportunity to choose a new “master resource” (as the economist Julian Simon put it), and in so doing chart a new economic and strategic course.

But the British had Churchill. America’s energy future, by contrast, may well be decided by a combination of politically powerful industry groups and environmental activists determined to impede the nation’s development of cheap, clean natural gas reserves. This seems like an odd team — the environmentalists want to prevent the natural gas from being developed at all; manufacturers and other industry players want the gas out of the ground but kept in the U.S. for their exclusive use. Either way, the result is the same — no exports.