Quark Soup by David Appell: First they Came for the Political Scientists....

Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted to restrict NSF funding for political science.

How Greenpeace Defines Happiness | NoFrakkingConsensus

Greenpeace says we should deprive ourselves and harm our communities.

Theda Skocpol Doubles Down With Self-Contradictory, Blame-The-Victim Misanalysis Of Cap-And-Trade Failure | ThinkProgress

[Joe Romm] Not one single person I know in any established environmental NGO is “happily reveling” in the grim situation we are now in. Quite the reverse, they are all despairing of it and trying to figure out a new strategy.
...Tellingly, she calls me “Cap-and-Trader Joe Romm.” The last thing in this world I am is a “cap-and-trader” — indeed, I have been one of the harshest critics of that term in the world...

- Bishop Hill blog - Bad to worse

National Grid have spoken out before, but now the power companies are starting to voice their concerns over the shambles that successive governments have made of the power sector and the very real possibility that we may soon see the lights going out.