Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Examiner Editorial: Obama's Interior Department stalls clean energy query | Washington Examiner

President Obama, confronted yet again by House and Senate investigators probing the cronyism in his green energy programs, did what he often does.

He simply ignored Congress.

Another Global Warming Icon Bites The Dust | Real Science

In 2010, the press corps(e) went completely hysterical about an ice cube which broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland.

Proof That We Are Doomed | Real Science

North and South Polar ice extent are both right at 12 million km² and both right at “normal”

...Hansen predicted massive ice loss at both poles, particularly in the Ross Sea – which has gained a substantial amount of ice over the last 30 years.

Articles: When Eco-Thugs Knock

In an effort to locate Armendariz's email address, Larry Kelly contacted David Gray, an EPA director of external affairs and sent the following brief email:

"Hello Mr. Gray. Do you have Mr. Armendariz's contact information so we can say hello? Regards, Larry Keller."

Following the uproar generated by the video, Armendariz resigned April 30. On the afternoon of May 2, two EPA agents, accompanied by a six-foot-six armed police officer, knocked on Kelly's door.  According to Kelly, the agents "presented very official looking badges and asked if we could sit and chat awhile. We moved to the back porch and took our seats with the exception of the armed officer who stood by the door to the house the entire time."

Turning Uncertainty into Certainty – Reinventing the Precautionary Principle » Climate Resistance

The precautionary principle — risk analysis without numbers, and without a sense of proportion — gives greater weight to speculation than to knowledge. That is the nature of the politics of fear: you can’t rule something out, so in order to survive, you have to assume that anything you can speculate about is actually the case and act accordingly. In the wake of criticism of the precautionary principle, environmentalists and those invested in the environmental agenda attempted to distance themselves from it, to emphasise certainty instead: the unequivocal consensus that ‘climate change is happening’. But the precautionary principle did not go away. It took on a new form, and lurked in the background. Rather than saying that the risks of climate change were beyond estimation, environmentalists invented a horizon of uncertainty: the limit of 2 degrees, beyond which lay ‘dangerous climate change’. But this limit was intangible. It wasn’t detected by science; it was invented to meet the needs of policy-makers. It mediated some of the excesses of the precautionary principle by reasoning that we know more about what will happen before 2 degrees of warming than what will happen following it.

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