Funding cut for UK climate research : Nature News

Ministry of Defence pulls £4.3 million from Met Office.
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The UK's Met Office has had its funding for climate research slashed by a quarter, following withdrawal of financial support by the government's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The loss of £4.3 million (US$7.0 million) in funding from the MoD will affect the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change in Exeter, the world-class climate modelling institute whose researchers made key contributions to the last assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007.

"This news comes as a shock," says climate scientist Martin Parry, formerly at the Met Office and now at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London. "The UK's core modelling work on climate change has been funded from this source, up to now."

Perversities of Whackman-Malarkey — MasterResource

The closer that the Waxman-Markey energy planning bill gets to the floor of the House of Representatives, the more convoluted and intellectually absurd it becomes. The cap-and-trade provision is getting the most attention, but there is so much more that deserves criticism. Jerry Taylor, for example, has exposed the “Clean Energy Bank” provision (buried in Subtitle J) as an open-ended piggybank for uneconomic, politically correct energies.
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So, what’s the score on Waxman-Markey? No environmental benefits; continued growth of GHG emissions; higher energy prices; greater governmental controls over the entire energy sector; a blizzard of new standards that will affect consumer choice in housing, consumer products, transportation, lighting, heating, cooling, and refrigerating; reduced economic growth; and attendant job losses, all in the teeth of one of the worst recessions in American history.

What a great prequel to the healthcare debate!

Why The Democrats Are In Such A Hurry ...

The tragic truth: The planet is not warming. And these people - cynical, sinister figures all, are starting to grasp the implications. So they're rushing to get their tax increases passed before the tide completely turns.

They will be remembered for this.