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THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds 'Many studies have shown a general decline of public concern about climate change or vice versa a rise in skepticism, in particular in the U.S. and other Anglo-Saxon countries'

A paper published today in Global Environmental Change finds, "Many studies have shown a general decline of public concern about climate change or vice versa a rise in public climate-change skepticism, in particular in the U.S. and other Anglo-Saxon countries. There is a vivid debate on whether this is a global phenomenon [and] on which factors explain the decline." Could it be that following Climategate 1 & 2, and subsequent revelations, the public no longer trusts political activists masquerading as climate scientists?

Drudge Says Worst Fire In Colorado’s History | Real Science

Amazing! Bigger than the 1898 fire which burned 50,000,000 acres.

Claim: Up to $500 billion in damages from Keystone XL oil | JunkScience.com

This is junk science/economics because…

This calculation is based on the entirely imaginary concept of a social cost of carbon. In reality there is no social cost of carbon (our economy is 100% dependent upon carbon)...

Michael Shellenberger of @theBTI on Pascal...

Apocalyptic environmentalism is not simply old Christian wine in new bottles, but rather a uniquely narcissistic variant of it. What makes us special, we Western greens tell ourselves, is not simply that we love and understand nature better, but that our generation has the power to save it. The Greatest Generation got to defeat fascism and Communism while in the post-Cold War era, Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials get to defeat an “adversary that is dispersed to the four corners of the earth and that can have all sorts of faces.”

There is thus, in the fanaticism of the apocalypse, equal parts misanthropy and narcissism, self-loathing and self-aggrandizement. “Behind their lamentations,” Bruckner writes sardonically, “the catastrophists are bursting with self-importance.”