Global warming caused super storms, ice thaw, UN organization warns

Global warming was to blame for super storms that killed hundreds of people last year, and record levels of ice thaw in the Arctic, the United Nations has warned.

The Climate's Right for Whining by Steven F. Hayward - City Journal

In sum, the real world of viticulture bears little relation to the published findings of scientists relying almost entirely on computer models. The latest PNAS study surely won’t be the last episode of the great wine scare. In the meantime, don’t be surprised if premium winemakers “adapt” by using the climate-change craze as an excuse to raise their prices further.

An Era of Endless Energy Is At Hand | Power Line

...And experts say the current estimate is still conservative. So if your great-uncle was a Norwegian bachelor farmer in North Dakota, you have won the lottery.

Really, though, we have all won the lottery, if perhaps not the Powerball grand prize. The cost of energy is one of the key determinants of economic growth, and the United States is poised to become the world’s great energy superpower for the foreseeable future. Cheap energy is like an across the board tax cut: it lifts all the boats. If the U.S. only had a competent government, there would be no stopping us.