Announcing My Next Point of Inquiry Guest: Climatologist Michael Mann (Ask Your Questions Now) | [Alarmist Chris Mooney] | Discover Magazine

The guest for Friday is going to be Penn State University climatologist Michael Mann, and we’ll be talking about the unprecedented wave of recent attacks on climate research–and climate scientists. So I am sure there will be many, many questions that folks will come up with. Don’t leave them in comments here–although comments are open.

India's Green Revolution Is Stunted as Fertilizer Subsidy Backfires - WSJ.com

SOHIAN, India—India's Green Revolution is withering.

In the 1970s, India dramatically increased food production, finally allowing this giant country to feed itself. But government efforts to continue that miracle by encouraging farmers to use fertilizers have backfired, forcing the country to expand its reliance on imported food.

[Gore takes an unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to Las Vegas]

Said Gore, "We are in the presence of one of the greatest opportunities in the history of business to become much more efficient and eliminate waste, pollution, and losses all at the same time."

You'll note that Gore said in the history of business, not in the history of the world. Methinks that was most intentional.
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Finally, Gore used more cornpone charm to explain his reaction to the outcome of last December's climate negotiations in Copenhagen: "I feel fine."

Explaining, it's kind of like the old farmer who, upon hauling a big cow to market in the back of the pickup truck has a bad traffic accident, only to have the highway patrolman come along and shoot the injured cow right between the eyes to put the poor thing out of his misery, whereupon the farmer responds to the question from the same said patrolman when asked how he (the farmer) feels, as he looks over at the cow: "I feel fine."  [Gore seems to repeat this same story, along with his "dyed your hair black" one, at almost every speech].

James Inhofe to EPA Chief: 'I Really Like You,' but Global Warming Is a 'Hoax' -- Politics Daily

The Senate has only 20 votes for climate change legislation with a cap-and-trade mechanism, Inhofe said, "and the last time I checked they need 60, so it's not going to happen."

Later in the hearing, Jackson disagreed with Inhofe's assertions that such legislation would kill jobs, or that climate change science has been totally discredited. There is "a mountain of evidence that says that the climate is changing and that there are man-made causes," she said.