The Dallas Morning News published my letter on blocking the Keystone pipeline. For those who do not subscribe and are interested, a copy of the letter is below.

Fossil fuels here to stay

Re: “Battle over Keystone – Skeptics are wrong – blocking the pipeline will help curb climate change” Bill McKibben says,” Sunday Points.

Climate activist Bill McKibben says blocking the pipeline will help curb climate change, but this is wrong on two points. First, blocking the pipeline won’t stop the oil from being used, it will just be used someplace else, such as China. Second, even if Canadian oil sands are never utilized, it won’t improve our climate, because atmospheric CO2 additions have little effect. (more…)

Source: Slate

Saying that droughts are caused by global warming leads to public distrust and disengagement when the rain starts to fall.

By Bjørn Lomborg

Source: No Frakking Consensus

This blog will return in mid-September. In the meantime, here’s a video of a presentation I gave in Australia last month – and some thoughts on the bankruptcy of contemporary green analysis.

To those of you who’ve been checking this blog for new material, please accept my apologies for the radio silence.

The climate debate can be a difficult place in which to live. Emotions run high. Chronic simple-mindedness abounds. Sometimes a person needs a bit of a holiday.

In a recent interview prominent green activist Bill McKibben declared that “fossil fuel barons” are “taking away the future” and must therefore be stopped (backup link here).

Those of us who regard affordable energy as a golden ticket out of drudgery, as providing access to light, heat, refrigeration, and safe cooking facilities can only marvel that there still are people who consider McKibben’s perspective “a riveting fresh look” at the climate debate. (more…)

Source:  Think Progress Green

By Bill McKibben

Today in the New York Times there was a story that made it completely clear why we have to be here. They uncovered the fact that the company building that tar sands pipeline was allowed to choose another company to conduct the environmental impact statement, and the company that they chose was a company was a company that did lots and lots of work for them. So, in other words, the whole thing was rigged top to bottom and that’s why the environmental impact statement said that this pipeline would cause no trouble, unlike the scientists who said if we build this pipeline it’s “game over” for the climate. We can’t let this pipeline get built. (more…)

Source:  Whatsup

Source:  American Spectator

By Paul Chesser

Referring to the video that Chris mentioned earlier, it was absolutely despicable. It is still on the web but I will not link it or embed it. The theme was alarmists in leadership exhorting their underlings (like a teacher and her schoolchildren) to take steps to reduce their carbon emissions by 10 percent. Those who didn’t raise their hands (yes, children) in favor of the program were literally blown up by their leader with the push of a button. Their blood and guts splattered those around them, as graphically as you can imagine — no, more than you can imagine. The message: climate deniers must die an extremely violent death. (more…)

Source:  American Spectator

By Paul Chesser

Commenter Susan made me aware in my earlier blog post that 350.org’s Bill McKibben, a partner with 1010.org, has issued a statement that claimed his group had nothing to do with their gross-out, kill-the-deniers video, and called it “disgusting.” From his statement, which he issued after learning about the video after he (surprise!) climbed off a plane in Boston:

Climate skeptics are going to make a big deal of this. The video represents the kind of stupidity that really hurts our side, reinforcing in people’s minds a series of preconceived notions, not the least of which is that we’re out-of-control elitists. Not to mention crazy, and also with completely misplaced sense of humor….

Crazy? Now where would we get that idea, Bill? Maybe from your lamentations at church in Copenhagen:

Those damned shriveled ears of corn. I’ve done everything I can think of, and millions of people around the world have joined us at 350.org in the most international campaign there ever was. But I just sat there thinking: It’s not enough. We didn’t do enough. I should have started earlier. People are dying already; people are sitting tonight in their small homes trying to figure out how they’re going to make the maize meal they have stretch far enough to fill the tummies of the kids sitting there waiting for dinner. And that’s with 390 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere. (more…)

Source:  WeeklyStandard

By Steven F. Hayward

It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago-changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more. (more…)