A Healthy Public Skepticism

Why have the alarmists’ efforts achieved so little? They offer a multitude of handy explanations, most of them based on crackpot conspiracy theories involving oil companies, real-estate interests, the Religious Right, and water-breathing space aliens set on melting the polar icecap as a prelude to colonizing the Earth’s oceans.

Okay, so I made that last part up, but it’s not much of an exaggeration of the absurdity of their allegations.
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Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.

Thieves hate fuel-efficient cars | Grist

Even more motivation not to buy gas-gulping, big-honkin' SUV's just pulled into the next parking spot: These cars are more likely to get stolen!

What's the carbon footprint of … drying your hands? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

At the high end, at about 20g of CO2e per go, are conventional heated hand dryers. These take a shade longer than the Dyson and use around 6 kilowatts of power. The big difference in electricity consumption is explained by the fact that it always takes a lot of energy to create heat.