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Michelle Malkin Warns of ‘Cult’ of ‘Eco-Zombies’ Taking over Obama Admin. | Mediaite

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin sat down with the hosts of Fox & Friends on Tuesday where she severely chided Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell for saying at a recent news conference that she hopes there are “no climate change deniers” in the Department of the Interior. Malkin accused Obama administration officials of talking about climate change in cult-like terms and warned that a “witch-hunt” against those skeptical of global warming was in the offing.
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“It’s a cult,” Malkin asserted. “This woman is talking like a cult leader.”

Feds say environmental law does not apply to California high-speed rail - ContraCostaTimes.com

SACRAMENTO -- California's high-speed rail project is no longer subject to the state's rigorous environmental laws after a federal transportation board ruled that it has oversight of the project, the state attorney general's office argues in a brief filed Friday.

Germans Grow Sceptical Over Shift To Renewables | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Germany’s green energy revolution is losing steam. The shift towards renewable energy is facing mounting resistance.

National Audit Office Is Urged To Investigate Soaring Green Energy Levies | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Britain’s biggest consumer body has called on the National Audit Office to launch a full-scale investigation into whether households are being ripped off by the soaring green levies on their energy bills.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds climate models cannot explain the global warming stagnation over past 15 years

A new paper by prominent German climatologists Dr. Hans von Storch and Dr. Eduardo Zorita, et al, finds "that the continued [global] warming stagnation over fifteen years, from 1998 -2012, is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2% confidence level." In other words, there is a greater than 98% probability that climate models are unable to explain the stagnation in warming over the past 15+ years. The authors suggest 3 possible explanations for this: