An outing one evening

News Items I Fancy

• George Will embraces Walter Russell Mead’s risible anti-science revisionism September 5, 2010
  Walter Russell Mead has fabricated an anti-scientific revisionist history of the environmental movement, which is why the pundit king of the ultraconservative anti-science climate disinformers, George Will, loves it. First, though, my favorite line in today’s op-ed by Will begins Mead, who says that he is a skeptic about climate policy rather than climate sc […]
• A Crash. A Call for Help. Then, a Bill. September 5, 2010
  Police and fire departments in some parts of the country have begun billing accident victims to offset budget cuts. […]
• EPA to issue more rules in climate fight (Reuters) September 2, 2010
  Reuters - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse gases and other pollution to help fight climate change, but they will not be as strong as action by Congress, a senior administration official said. […]
• Arctic sea ice area and volume drop near record lows - WattsUpWithThat breaks its own record for fastest overturning of a prediction by reality September 1, 2010
  The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, click to enlarge) has a widely used plot of sea ice area. The notion that the Arctic sea ice was somehow on a long-term recovery trend based on a short-term two-dimensional analysis (i.e. sea ice area or extent just over the last 2 years) — had no basis in fact.  That goes double (triple?) when you look at three […]
• Ohio Tea Party survey to candidates: “The regulation of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere should be left to God and not government and I oppose all measures of Cap and Trade as well as the teaching of global warming theory in our schools.” September 1, 2010
  At first, I wasn’t going to blog on this because I thought it must be a hoax.  Who could possibly ask such a question of candidates?  Then again, the Tea Party have outsourced their thinking on climate to The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, which is as ridiculous as it gets. Yesterday, the UK Guardian’s Leo Hickman reported the story, “with a side order of j […]