Global Warming in Wonderland and the Green P.R. Machine | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

These are times straight out of Alice in Wonderland, as everything becomes an “un-birthday” and definitions are turned on their head. Climate change scientists, according to The Washington Times this last weekend, are turning to PR, rather than data, to defend their work. Then there’s Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who yesterday continued to make patently false job-creation claims to sell the administration’s radical environmental agenda. His timing was unerringly bad, as his statements came on heels of further evidence that two front-runners—California and Europe—are discovering that their “green” policies are producing more red (ink) and less green(backs).

YouTube - Chris Horner Debates IMF Climate Fund

March 10, 2010 — Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner debates plans for the International Monetary Fund to collect $100 billion a year from member nations to fund climate change initiatives.

Mary Kissel: Climate Change 'Quagmire' - WSJ.com

"I don't think you should dismiss Lomborg the way climate evangelicals have dismissed him," Mr. Ramesh says. "He makes reasonable points. The spirit of science is the spirit of inquiry, of questioning."

That it should be left to a politician from a developing country to make that point—while his counterparts in the West push for Rube Goldberg solutions to a "crisis" that may not even exist—goes far toward explaining the state of the climate debate today.

Ian McEwan interview: warming to the topic of climate change - Telegraph

In Brand’s taxonomy, [the fictional] Michael Beard constitutes yet another type – a man whose primary interest in global warming is the opportunity it presents to further his own interests. When his business partner frets over the viability of their new energy scheme – 'If the place isn’t hotting up, we’re f*****’ – Beard remains defiantly upbeat. 'Here’s the good news. The UN estimates that already a third of a million people a year are dying from climate change. Even as we speak, the inhabitants of the island of Carteret in the South Pacific are being evacuated because the oceans are warming and expanding and rising. Malarial mosquitoes are advancing northwards across Europe… Toby, listen. It’s a catastrophe. Relax!’