Great Spoof of Corporate Greenies - Steven Hayward - Planet Gore on National Review Online

GE, Chevron, and other corporate giants who show off their green credentials with splashy ads get their much-deserved comeuppance with this spoof ad for Veridian Dynamics, from ABC's Better Off Ted. The Office-inspired clone is rumored for imminent cancellation by the nitwork, I mean, network. Worth a view, and a shout to ABC to please spare us another cheap idiot reality show.

Al Gore’s Inconvenient Loot | I Hate Al Gore

If Gore’s motivation in pushing Global Warming is so altruistic, was it really necessarily for the already wealthy Gore to establish a multi-million dollar corporation in England to cash in? And given the history of Gore and Knight, are these people we should trust to drive a re-vamping of the world economy at the same time they’re lining their pockets because of our much smaller carbon footprints?

EU Referendum: A very, very sick joke

And just when you need it most, [the wind doesn't blow]. We're peaking at 59GW and wind was supplying a pathetic 3.5 percent of installed capacity, delivering a mere 147MW just after midnight, or 0.3 percent of our total power requirement. Coal, on the other hand, was bashing out 48.3 percent while gas came in second place with 33.2 percent.

Wind? This is a very, very sick joke.

Waxman-Markey’s impact on housing prices — more than your average postage stamp | GlobalWarming.org

...the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) estimates that W-M could increase the purchase price of a new home by $1,371 to $6,387, and that this would have the effect of making 337,000 to 1.57 million households unable to qualify for a home mortage. Repeat after me: “Law of Unintended Consequences!”

Exposing the global warming myth - Community Press - Ontario, CA

George Sander's letter on the questionable practices of global warming profiteers ("Looking to feed at the taxpayers' trough") is a pearl. It helps derail the myth of global warming. In the past it has been so much easier for media to print prepared text from legitimate sounding organizations, because there was little reason to question their science. The e-mails mentioned in Mr. Sander's letter have revealed that these organizations were not legitimate but seemingly legitimate. With willing associates, they concocted highly dubious 'science'.

His final paragraph bears repeating in full: "This whole thing is just a big money game, with corporations on either side of the debate looking to feed at the taxpayers' trough." [Via Skeptic's Corner]

BBC News - Life in extreme cold around the world

In the north-eastern Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the village of Oymyakon is commonly called the coldest populated place on Earth. Situated in an area of Siberia nicknamed "Stalin's Death Ring" (a former destination for political exiles), Oymyakon boasts an average winter temperature of -45C, with a one-time world record low of -71.2C. [Note that the benevolent Stalin sent his enemies to a very cold place, where they could enjoy life without kidney stones and dengue fever.]