More on EPA’s Climate Science Problem: The Peabody Petition — MasterResource

The full Peabody Petition is well worth a careful read. If you take the time, what you’ll find will be eye-opening. The level of “taint” shown to be in the IPCC process is truly immense. It is hard to figure how the EPA is going to get out from under this.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Part III

This happens in a small way in your hotel room, in which is found a placard on which is pictured a beaver cavorting in crystal-blue water next to the words, “Don’t wash your towels, it saves the environment”. The hotel does this to save money while appearing to pay obeisance to our current secular religion. This is step one.

Step two. The hotel makes a donation to a busybody, who passes a Green Lodgings bill, saying, “People do not need clean towels. I judge them to be excessive. Plus, towels should be laundered only in approved ways: this 387-page document describes the regulation.” The hotel and laundry executives will join the politician on the podium, hands raised in victory.

If fossil fuel reserves rise carbon should be left where it belongs: in the ground | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

...In the UK, responsibility for the problem rests with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc). The way it operates suggests that the two halves of the department must hate each other. The energy section seems to be in a state of perpetual war with the climate change section. Every morning Ed Miliband, the secretary of state, must beat himself up like Edward Norton in Fight Club.

Barrow, Alaska: Ground Zero for Climate Change | [Ridiculous sob story from Bob Reiss, Smithsonian Magazine, who evidently hasn't figured out that it isn't 2007 any more]

The fabled Northwest Passage, from Baffin Bay in Eastern Canada to the Pacific Ocean, was frozen for centuries, and attempts to navigate it cost hundreds of European explorers their lives.

But in the past few summers, so much ice has melted that the Northwest Passage actually became navigable.

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The Northwest Passage was successfully navigated in 1906, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1957, 1969, 1977, 1984, 1988, and 2000 (and probably in other years as well).