Jean Philippe Delsol: Collecting the Wages of Fear - WSJ.com

Unscrupulous governments are eager to take advantage of public apprehensions to claim more power for themselves and take away our freedoms.
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Ecologists, on behalf of global warming, are doing their best to mobilize a global power capable of imposing on society as a whole a return to the age of the caveman—and a caveman without fire, no less. Modern deforestation, after all, traces its roots to that first man-made flame. They have already managed to make light bulbs shine less brightly and to make us liable for new taxes on our "carbon." Soon, perhaps, they will try to prevent us from eating beef, or having children—both carbon-intensive activities.

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Reuters' Climate Change Fiction

Anyone remotely familiar with the climate change debate knows that skepticism is alive and well in many nations around the world, including European ones. That a Canadian pollster would be so misinformed is disturbing. That a Reuters journalist would write down and distribute such fiction is inexcusable.

- Bishop Hill blog - Prospect of change

Prospect magazine, the house journal of the bien-pensant centre-left is the latest media outlet to throw in the towel and start discussing the other side of the climate debate. In its current issue it publishes a broadly sceptic take on the quality of the temperature records and notes some of the Climategate revelations.

Well worth a look.

- Bishop Hill blog - Leo Hickman on anonymity

A glance at the council of NERC, the body that funds most climate research in the UK, suggests that money for anyone questioning the global warming mainstream would be hard to come by. We might well also assume that no climatologist who questioned AGW would get a job at the Met Office while it was run by a deep green like Robert Napier. The scientific institutions in the UK are entirely politicised, to the extent that even the venerable Royal Society is entirely dependent on government money.