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[The LA Progressive] Obama, Copenhagen, and the Global Warming Skeptics | The LA ...: His explanation was that “real calamities [like the major economic recession then occurring] take our minds off hypothetical ones.” In a more recent column (November 8, 2009), he noted that “although the political and media drumbeat of alarm is incessant, a Pew poll shows that only 57 percent of Americans think there is solid evidence of global warming, down 20 points in three years.” In general, Will regards most environmentalists with suspicion, as we see from an even more recent column entitled “Awash in Fossil Fuels”–“today, there is a name for the political doctrine that rejoices in scarcity of everything except government. The name is environmentalism.”

[EconLog] Borenstein's Biased Reporting, David Henderson | EconLog | Library ...: Finally, they quote one scientist celebrating the death of a critic, another jokingly suggesting that they hire a Mafia hitman to murder global warming skeptics, and another stating his temptation to beat the crap out of another skeptic. Interestingly, though, they don't point out that this skeptic who avoided being beat up is himself a climate scientist named Patrick Michaels.

[Fabius Maximus] Weekend reading recommenations about climate change « Fabius Maximus: Arnold Schwarzenegger has been that the opposite is true: Far from burdening the economy, the forced transition to new sources of power would touch off a statewide boom as California companies become world leaders in alternate energy and as businesses benefit from efficient new technologies.

[Full Comment] Jack Mintz: Our costly climate plan - Full Comment: The good news: The Canadian government target to reduce emissions by 20% from 2006 levels by 2020 is doable and relatively painless for Canada as a whole. The study estimates that Canada’s GDP would decline only 1.4% by 2020, shaving Canada’s annual economic growth rate by a bit over the coming decade.

[EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty] When Is Uncertainty an Argument for Inaction?, Bryan Caplan ...: If you only have one catastrophic problem, global warming, then you want to act according to what your expected value is, even if there's a fair probability that no problem exists. (The exception as above would be if you think that there's a fair probability of a new Ice Age as well as global warming, so all that CO2 might save us from an Ice Age and reducing it could be a Bad Thing.)

[Full Comment] The easy way to fight global warming. Too easy - Full Comment: Anonymous66: Why do you want to put all those people that plant trees every summer, many who are university students, out of work? How about putting all those welfare recipients to work picking up garbage and building public facilities like walking paths instead.

[Science and Health Blog - Mirror.co.uk] Global warming: Forget the climate sceptics, the real experts are ...: Alarmists, such as Prof Mike Lockwood, are predisposed to flawed fatalistic ideology and in truth need anthropogenic global warming to be true for their self preservation. In fact they knew AGW to be true before the science ever began.

[EconLog] Morning Commentary, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics ...: If there were a massive conspiracy to defraud the world on climate (and to what end?), surely the thousands of e-mails and other files stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit and distributed by hackers on November 20 would bear proof of it. So far, however, none has emerged.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Bellamy: Twenty-Eight Years on TV, Then ...: If he is able to criticise the AGW theoryby drawing attention to its scientific shortcomings and lack of physical justification, it will not be regarded as politically motivated, but rather as nothing more than proper criticism of a theory which has not been proven and whose adherents are emotionally attached to its promulgation for reasons of either emotional attachment or, perhaps, more ulterior partisan political reasons.

[MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum] Darrell and Arnie | Mother Jones: Meet the 12 loudest voices in the chorus of global warming skeptics and Copenhagen cranks. The Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial.

[Centurean2's Weblog] UN UNESCO”¦.Silent Weapons For”¦. QUIET WARS! « Centurean2's Weblog: Sir Julian Huxley, a British scientist and intellectual, played a leading role in the creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), also held similar if not identical views to Wells. Huxley saw medical and scientific progress, such as the development of penicillin, DDT and water purification, as a two-edged sword.

[Full Comment] Lawrence Solomon: The gas of life - Full Comment: Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Energy Probe (energy.probeinternational.org) and Urban Renaissance Institute and author of The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud.

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