Monday, June 10, 2013

Links

Twitter / Foxgoose
High mileage, green-minded frequent flyers demand airline fuels their planes with fairy dust
Twitter / richardabetts
@StacyRHespanha @ruth_dixon Completely agree - "denier" is a pointless insult and stops people listening #chapmanclimate
Twitter / climatebrad: Sad to see @RSI legitimizing ...

Sad to see legitimizing the extremist climate deniers at

World 'off-track' in effort to limit warming, report says
The focus of trying to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius "is a distraction," Roger Pielke, Jr., a science policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who writes frequently climate change, told NBC News in an email.
Washington DC Conservative R Street Institute Promotes Carbon Tax | Planet3.0
The R Street Institute is a new Washington DC based insurance-funded think tank which, among other things, supports a carbon tax. It was founded by Eli Lehrer, who bolted from the Heartland Institute during their meltdown last year.

1 comment:

papertiger said...

insurance-funded think tank

Huh.
Sure. Why wouldn't the insurance industry push global warming? They get to charge more, for disasters which are never going to come. They'll never have to pay out, except for the occasional bone they toss to political washouts.

They're running it like a casino. The house has the edge as long as insurance is mandatory.