Hans von Storch On Media, Politics; Climate Science And Activists

Q: What must be improved and what must happen in order for things to get better?
HsV: The practice observed up to now of “stealth advocate scientists“, i.e. of scientists who, without saying it, put their science in service of a certain political matter, needs to be stopped.
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Q: Over the last years, what impact have the increased number of skeptics had on the public communication of anthropogenic climate climates change?
I don’t believe the number of skeptics has gone up; more are just admitting it. I think there have always been latent reservations also among other professors from physics, geology and other areas. These reservations are now being more explicitly expressed. Many of these people are so-called “skeptics“. They are not oil-industry seduced hacks.

The top five stories of the year for climate [bedwetters] | Grist

1. Cap-and-trade is dead

Cap-and-trade is deader than dead. Everyone in Washington officialdom knows that. Virtually no one in Washington officialdom understands how it would work or how much economists think it would cost, but they're certain it's bad, bad, bad and had to die.

Moonbattery: Arnold Schwarzenegger Wants to Be Obama's Global Warming Czar

Not to mention his 380-mile daily commute to work by private jet. But that's not going to help us pay our power bills when Big Government uses the debunked global warming farce as a excuse to hike energy prices into the stratosphere in keeping with Comrade Obama's plan to take America down a few notches.

New Statesman - Why we need direct action on climate change

It is a complicated defence, the defence of necessity. Last week, twenty people admitted their plan to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station, but justified their actions to prevent death and serious injury from the carbon emissions. A jury heard compelling evidence on the horror of climate change, but still returned a guilty verdict. We'll never know what those twelve people discussed, but the fact that governments are failing us all is clearer than ever.

Yes, they were acting -- or planning to act -- through an unconventional process. Had the plan gone ahead, arrests would have been inevitable. But given time to present their evidence, research and sophisticated safety measures, the defendants adeptly explained why their actions were reasonable.
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Caroline Lucas is leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton Pavilion.