Is there anything more incessant and annoying than the constant talk of “goin’ green!”? (Note: you can’t say it without shortening “going” and adding an exclamation point at the end.) Between five-minute segments on the Today Show and a billion internet blog posts, talking about goin’ green! has become so perfunctory that you wonder if some people just use it to describe an alternative form of anything. Coke or Diet Coke? Diet Coke. I’m goin’ green!

Another scandal has earned the stupid title of “something-gate,” but this time, it’s a scandal I’m actually interested in. As it turns out, some top global warming scientists were caught e-mailing each other with phrases like “trick” and talking about how to suppress contrasting opinion.

Maybe that’s why liberals were so quick to point out the “SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS” any time the science of global warming was debated – it’s easy to have a scientific consensus of global warming hypers control the consensus.

According to National Geographic, the sun is the “least active it’s been in decades,” which is prompting scientists to watch it vigorously, presumably with a light-dimming lense or intermediary of some sort.
The sun is the least active it’s been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.
The coldest period of the Little Ice Age, between 1645 and 1715, has been linked …

Note:  This article is also a contribution to the BPN Platform.
One reason that it’s difficult to trust the environmentalist movement is that they don’t embrace nuclear energy as the wonder that it is – clean, safe, reliable, and utterly innovative.  The BPN Platform would emphasize nuclear energy as the energy of the future and of the present, looking to loosen restrictions on building new plants to let private markets get to work.
Current Status of Nuclear Power
Although the United States is the largest producer of nuclear power, France is the largest-percentage …

Brought to you by the same people who think you can spend your way out of debt:  the solution to global warming is more pollution!
Via Wall Street Journal:
The president’s new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air.
John Holdren told the Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the …

Conventional wisdom says that oil reserves are limited.  Many believe that we should conserve while we have it, exploring alternative fuels that we can actually grow, recharge, and renew.
But what if oil is a renewable resource?
Thomas Gold, author of Deep Hot Biosphere:  The Myth of Fossil Fuels believes that hydrocarbons like petroleum are actually quite abundant;  not only that, but “fossil” fuels have nothing to do with fossils.
“Astronomers have been able to find that hydrocarbons, as oil, gas and coal are called, occur on many other planetary bodies. They are …

It’s a distinct possibility that Roger Ebert can keep his lights on and, in fact, might actually want to keep them burning overnight.
Why?  Some are currently predicting that instead of MMGW, we’re actually headed to what they thought we were headed to in the 1970’s, another ice age.
Says Phil Brennan:
Now comes Gregory F. Fegel writing in Pravda Ru that we are on the brink of a new ice age, a revelation that has shocked many Americans but one that I explained 12 years ago in my series The Icemen Cometh.
According …

The Good:
The federal/state/private reaction and preparations for Hurricane Gustav have gone unbelievably smoothly.  One local religious leader said it was something like the smoothest operation he’s ever seen.  For the first time in history, the entire Louisiana coastline was evacuated.  Given our technology, this is about the best you can do to “beat” a hurricane.
What’s the difference between Gustav and Katrina? The storm surge is smaller.  FEMA and Bush don’t want another disaster on their record.  Bobby Jindal is the governor now.  Less people hung around.
The Not-Bad:
Sarah Palin’s daughter is …

Ever notice that if liberals turn out to be wrong about something, instead of them fessing up to it, the issue simply disappears?
For instance, what’s the major issue of the current Presidential campaign? Using attention as the barometer, it’s either Obama’s inexperience/cult of personality/flip-flops, or energy.
Remember when Iraq was the big issue? In an April 2007 Democratic debate, Brian William’s first question was to Hillary Clinton, and it was about Iraq (Harry Reid had apparently recently said the war was lost).
Just last month, Iraq saw the lowest U.S. …

David Evans, a consultant for the Australian Greenhouse Office for several years, has come out and said the evidence is lacking that carbon pollutants are causing a greenhouse effect or, for that matter, global warming:
The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, …