Al's Journal : "A generational shift" in oil imports

December 2012 saw the intersection of two global energy trends: the increasingly voracious energy appetite of China and the rapid surge of domestic energy production in the US. The result—for the first time ever, China overtook the US as the world’s leading oil importer.

Monckton on tour — slick oil funded operation ;-) « JoNova

What was also especially obvious at the Dalkeith-community-Hilton was the generous support of the Oil Moguls (not).

Quadrant Online - Changing sun, changing climate

[Bob Carter, Willie Soon & William Briggs] Scientists have been studying solar influences on the climate for more than 5000 years.Chinese imperial astronomers kept detailed sunspot records, and noticed that more sunspots meant warmer weather. In 1801, celebrated astronomer William Herschel, the first to observe Uranus, noted that when there were fewer spots the price of wheat soared. He surmised that less “light and heat” from the sun resulted in reduced harvests.

A species facing extinction. | Pointman's

This slow demise of so-called environmental journalism is actually an act of euthanasia, a mercy killing. To my mind, it always embodied the very worst aspects of journalism. All the grubby professional sins were there; advocacy dressed up as balanced reportage, an intolerant moral arrogance, totally one-sided reporting, knee-jerk churnalism, absolutely no distinction between opinion and factual pieces, suppression of stories that didn’t square with an approved set of viewpoints, selective misinformation, hit pieces dressed up as respectable journalism directed at their pet hate figures, a crusading willingness to sacrifice truth, by both omission and commission, in the name of a higher cause and a basic dishonesty to both the reader and their profession.
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People have by now gone through the stage of tiredly shrugging off your latest efforts to continue scaring them and are just plain ignoring you at this stage, which is why all the cuts. You’re being culled, because the bean counters are perceptive enough to know there won’t be any blowback these days from any significant quarter.

Like all species who are no longer fit for purpose, the environmental journalist is facing extinction.