J Dwight: The Biggest Con Job in the History of Man

Be skeptical about global warming and you're branded with a scarlet "D" for "Denier." Say global warming is a crock, and you are shunned at parties.I'm an environmentalist, like most in Maine, but I'm not an environmental zealot.

Because I'm also an economist and a professional business analyst. From these perches, I can see policies that purport to fix global warming - like cap and trade taxes, and legislation that enacts them, like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or the federal Climate Security Act - as pernicious and corrupting ideas in the arena of business and politics.

They're elegant con jobs, which turn junk science into major dollars for developers.

Dennis Avery: Op-Ed: Look to patterns to grasp glacier growth - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com

The sunspots are now predicting a 30-year cooling of the Earth. That would thicken the Alaskan glaciers somewhat, but probably wouldn't refill Glacier Bay with ice. That'll have to wait for the next large-scale ice age.

The sunspot index has a 59 percent correlation with our temperatures (in a roughly 10-year lag). CO2 has only an "accidental" 22 percent correlation with our temperatures, which is grounds for dismissing CO2 as a major climate player.

All this is radically different from the 5 degrees Celsius warming predicted by the computer models. However, the scientific rule says that if actual observations tell you something that's the opposite of your theory, change your theory.

Cold reception to Rudd’s warming plan | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Here’s a round-up of climate news over the past 24 hours...

Gore on ice | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

...Actually, make that four years. Gore has been predicting this for a year already. For some unknown reason he’s still saying five years when one of those years has already passed.