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Enviros unhappy with Mayor Gloomberg’s Climate Maginot Line — Levees should be 25% higher | JunkScience.com

And then there’s the contracting corruption…

The Blackboard » Estimating the Underlying Trend in Recent Warming

After taking ENSO, volcanic aerosols, and solar cycles into account, the best estimate rate of warming from 1997 to 2012 is less than 1/3 the rate of warming from 1979 to 1996.

David Cameron hints at further cuts to green energy subsidies - Telegraph

David Cameron has hinted he would like to cut green subsidies that force up energy bills, after questioning the "sanity" of onshore wind farms.

The American Spectator : Overheated Frauds and Fools

HOW DID A PROPOSITION based on tendentious science and economics, requiring a global consensus that no diplomacy could achieve, come to the center of the international agenda? Darwall points to a disposition in Western thought that begins with Thomas Malthus and continues to this day. We all know Malthus’ warning: population grows exponentially, food arithmetically, leading to mass starvation. The prediction seized a certain sector of the intelligentsia in his time and still holds it tight today, even though by Malthus’ death, the facts of Europe’s experience had not borne out his theory. Since then, the same plausible but ultimately crank hypothesis has reemerged repeatedly. At one point the catastrophic crisis was said to be in coal, at another in oil; today it is in air and water.

For generation after generation, diligent but unimaginative minds have contemplated humanity’s expanding material wealth and found disaster in the offing. The great danger now is that these narrow thinkers will take control of public policy and stifle the processes of innovation and growth that have put the lie to so many past predictions. In The Age of Global Warming: A History, Rupert Darwall has told a story of frauds and fools thoroughly and well. His truth may be inconvenient for some. For the rest of us, it is a breath of fresh air.