" The institute has claimed it is "a genuinely independent source of research and commentary" and that "we do not take positions in order to appease or avoid losing support from individual donors". But the documents, if authentic, reveal that its attacks on climate science have been largely funded by a single anonymous donor and that "we are extinguishing primarily global warming projects in pace with declines in his giving". "

" But there are a couple of new twists that make this same-old story more interesting than usual. One has to do with the temperature in a less metaphorical sense. The Oklahoma bill isn't properly speaking just an "anti-evolution" bill; it is just as opposed to the "theory" of "global warming". A bill pending in Tennessee likewise targets "global warming" alongside "biological evolution". These and other bills aim their rhetoric at "scientific controversies" in plural, and one of the New Hampshire bills does not even bother to specify which controversies it has in mind. "

"Once science moves from the laboratory or ice caps into fights over policy and the economy, Mr. Ropeik said, the issues are mainly framed by polarizing figures who tailor their message to people who already strongly support their views."

Life is starting to resemble something I read in a Lovecraftian pastiche twice.

"imagine that we instituted a brutally high gas tax that reduced emissions from American vehicles by 25 percent. That would be a stunning achievement - and in just 9 months, China’s increased emissions would have more than made up the difference."

"Members of the panel said their review... led them to conclude... that reductions in greenhouse gases had to start immediately to avert a global climate disaster, which could leave island states submerged and abandoned, African crop yields down by 50%,"

Anarcho-primitivists and supporters of mass human die-offs are indeed crazy, but one could drive a truck through the flaws in logic and evidence in this op-ed.

"This stark warning will be outlined by the peace group International Alert in a report, A Climate of Conflict, this week. Much of Africa, Asia and South America will suffer outbreaks of war and social disruption..."

"Writing in the report, Gen Zinni, a former commander of US Central Command, says: "It's not hard to make the connection between climate change and instability, or climate change and terrorism.""

Links to a display of this week's Newsweek covers for various markets. One of these covers is not like the other. One of these covers is really inane...

"you have a huge and expensive public relations campaign denying that scientific consensus. This campaign is largely financed with money from energy companies... which is then lightly laundered through "think tanks"... or through industry front groups."

"Methane - a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide - is being released from the permafrost at a rate five times faster than thought, according to a study being published today in the journal Nature."

"Since Thompson's first reports, he and others have confirmed a rapid recession of glaciers worldwide. Snows on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro... will be gone within 14 years... Glaciers in the Alps, the Himalayas and throughout the Andes are also shrinking,"