Look, I'm not really up for arguing about the science of climate change anymore-I have my doubts, some of you don't, and there's not much out there (at the moment) that will move us toward the other's position.

But so long as AGW advocates paint me as a crank, I'm going to use this space to point out the useful (or maybe not-so-useful) idiots on ( Read more... )

I hate to muddy the climate-change debate with facts, but you know that big peak in global temperature change recorded in January 2007?  It's been completely wiped out, and then some, in the past 16 months:

It is significantly colder globally, colder even than the significant drop to -0.046°C seen in January 2008 ( Read more... )

I want to believe this is a parody, but it isn't.  It's an "irreverent" Web site produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that supposedly educates kids about the effects of greenhouse gases and how they impact the environment.  What it really does is try to make kids feel miserable for not being born into abject poverty, which is the ( Read more... )

Tyler Cowen, currently traveling in Japan, passes on this page of unusual business card designs.  Kevin Mitnick's is pretty awesome, but some of them seem way more gimmicky than useful.

Have you seen the video of Bill O'Reilly completely losing his shit during a taping of Inside Edition (these videos are NSFW)?  It gets even better remixed.  But ( Read more... )

Even the homeless in America use twice the amount of energy than the global average, according to a new study (PDF) from MITThink about that: you could sleep on the streets, or become a Buddhist monk, and still not be able to reduce your carbon footprint to a level deemed necessary by climate change activists.  And as the study points out, reducing ( Read more... )

No, this is nothing to worry about:

Corn prices jumped to a record $6 a bushel Thursday, driven up by an expected supply shortfall that will only add to Americans' growing grocery bill and further squeeze struggling ethanol producers ( Read more... )

An Indian automotive company seeks to put its country on (four) wheels with the $2500 Tata NanoObviously styling is not the Nano's main selling point.  But it seats five, gets over 50 MPG from its 33-horsepower, two-cylinder engine, and meets Euro III emissions standards.  This is exactly the sort of cheap wheels that have revolutionized economies ( Read more... )

If this doesn't inspire people to rise up against ethanol subsidies, I don't know what will:

OK, I was mad at the waste of tax dollars for ethanol programs that do nothing for the environment or to reduce net fossil fuel consumption. I was mad that a technology that in no way reduces CO2 production but does introduce radical new land-use-related ( Read more... )

Al Gore had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize if he couldn't come up with an energy plan like the one Mike Huckabee envisions:

I consider myself a conservationist. I think we ought to have some cap and trade. It worked with acid rain. I think it could work with Co2 emissions. I think we ought to be out there talking about ways to reduce ( Read more... )

Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it ( Read more... )