Environmental Guilt Is Big Business

Fertilizers? Go kick rocks, activists, the science is in and people feel no guilt at all. Light bulbs? Ditto. Banning incandescents was another in a giant list of things for social authoritarian progressives to outlaw, but people resented it and don't like that they will need to call in a Haz-Mat team if they break one of those ugly CFL bulbs. So they feel no guilt at all about the old bulbs they began hoarding.

Michelle Malkin: Obama’s Green Favor-Trading | JunkScience.com

“Clean energy” is Obama-speak for crony government.

Minnesota, Wisconsin TV Meteorologists to Meet on Climate Science | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

The workshop faculty [all warmists?] consists of leading climate scientists and meteorology experts such as Professors Mark Seeley and Peter Snyder of the University of Minnesota; Professor John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas; Professor Anthony Broccoli of Rutgers University; Keith Dixon of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Jeff Masters of Weather Underground; Paul Douglas of Weather Nation; and meteorologist and Ph.D. candidate Joe Witte of NASA and George Mason University.

Along with the Arctic ice, the rich world's smugness will melt | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

The belief that Europe and America will be hit least by climate change is in ruins. Yet all we do is try to profit from disaster

Global Warming and the Spread of Disease: We’re Seeing it Now

West Nile isn’t the only disease on the rise. Other diseases where mosquitoes are the vector are also seeing an extension of their territories compared with previous years.

2011: BBC News - Malaria deaths fall over 20% worldwide in last decade

There has been a fall of just over 20% in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, the World Health Organization says.

Small Island Nations Take Fight Against Climate Change Into Their Own Hands - CleanTechnica

Tokelau, a small group of Pacific atolls situated off the coast of New Zealand, is all set to become the world’s first truly renewable nation. The island houses 1,400 people who are currently dependent on diesel fuel generators burning 200 liters of diesel daily. However, residents hope to depend on solar energy by October this year.

The funding for the project will be provided by outside companies, along with $7 million advance from the New Zealand government.

It’s a F*ct – We’re F*cked » Climate Resistance

“Ten Billion”, described as “a new kind of scientific lecture” by scientist Stephen Emmott and director Katie Mitchell played at the Royal Court theatre in London for three weeks in July and August, and at the Festival d’Avignon in France. It was a huge critical success, and in a post-show discussion Emmott said that he had been bombarded with offers from film makers to turn it into a tv documentary, and claimed to have received thousands of requests from the public to have it shown to schools and to politicians.

So what’s in it?

The Volt economy - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

the Volt’s 84-day inventory — above the industry average of 51 days (and far from the 10-day inventory of more popular luxury models in its price segment like the BMW X3) — helps to explain the production halt. Indeed, a spokesman for a Chevy dealer told Detroit’s Frank Beckmann Radio Show this morning that Volt sales were disappointing. “We always knew it would be a niche vehicle,” he said.

We did? Actually, Volt sales should be booming according to its greatest champion, Barack Obama.

Unfit For Debate – Rahmtorf’s Flies Off – Unleashes Tirade Against “Conspiracy Theororist” Skeptics