Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Warm-Up Still Days Away - Metropolis - WSJ
There was even more snow in Snowshoe, W. Va., which received an estimated nine inches over a two-day period. Traces of frost and snow were also noticed as far south as southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee.

Many locations west of the mountains have also achieved record low temperatures over the past couple days.
Who Really Is “Anti-Science”? | FrontPage Magazine
So when it comes to climate change, who really is “anti-science”–– the skeptics demanding more empirical proof before accepting as fact an as yet unproven theory that could generate public policies costing trillions of dollars and weakening our economy; or the true believers shrilly insisting on the basis of a presumed “consensus” that the question is settled, and that anyone who disagrees is “vile” (Krugman) or “evil” (Al Gore), a dangerous heretic to be scorned and demonized?
Minister rejects calls for carbon tax on domestic gas | News | Inside Housing
But Greg Barker, energy minister, said he was sceptical about the ability of price signals to change people’s behaviour.

He said: ‘Last winter, gas bills went up by 20 per cent but we did not sea a sea change in people’s behaviour.

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