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	Economist: We'll just move to Siberia to escape climate change by Brad Johnson. Cross-posted from ThinkProgress Green. The inability of mainstream economists to grapple with the consequences of unrestrained global warming has been a recurring theme at ThinkProgress Green. However, the gold medal for sociopathic insouciance about a world of unimaginable biodiversity collapse, global desertification, the death of the oceans, and the inevitable wars and chaos that would bring would have to go to Karl Smith, one of the bloggers at the influential economics blog Modeled Behavior. In his post "In Praise of Dirty Energy: There Are Worse Things Than Pollution and We Have Them," the assistant professor of public economics and government at the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that despite the risks, "we should pursue the development of fossil fuels as rapidly as possible including looking for ways to streamline regulation in North American regarding fossil fuel ...	9th December 2011
	Lord Monckton Brands Australian Climate Advisor a Nazi NEVER a stranger to controversy or a fossil-fuel funded think-tank, Scotland-based British peer Lord Christopher Monckton has been caught jumping the proverbial climate denial shark just weeks before a nationwide tour of Australia. [Is Monckton projecting?]	30th June 2011
	Pawlenty defends Big Oil: Cutting oil subsidies is 'ludicrous' Tim Pawlenty is proud that, "Every one of us" running for president has flip-flopped on climate change. Unsurprisingly, I suppose Pawlenty now defends the massive subsidies for Big Oil even in the face of their record profits. Think Progress has the story: Oil giant Exxon last week, on the same day that announced nearly $11 billion in first-quarter profits, publicly whined about the renewed push by Congressional Democrats and President Obama to cut the nearly $4 billion in subsidies that oil companies collect every year. "What they really mean is that they want to increase our taxes by taking away long-standing deductions for our industry," griped Exxon's vice president for public and government affairs Ken Cohen.	27th June 2011
	AP: Warren Buffett "says he doesn't believe greenhouse gases represent a material risk for Berkshire's insurance operations" Billionaire investor Warren Buffett appears seriously confused about the risks posed by greenhouse gases. Two years ago, the sage of Omaha wrote, "Doubling the carbon dioxide we belch into the atmosphere may far more than double the subsequent problems for society." Duh. But now the AP reports: Berkshire Hathaway shareholders reject a measure that would have required the company's utilities to set goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the company's annual meeting on Saturday several people spoke in favor of the measure, saying Warren Buffett's company could be hurt financially by potential liabilities associated with carbon emissions.	27th June 2011
	Solar scheme so successful that the plug will be pulled THE Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, is looking for new ways to slow the runaway demand for rooftop solar systems that has put pressure on electricity prices and made it harder to sell the government's proposed carbon price.	12th April 2011
	Bonuses After Blowouts: Transocean Rewards Executives for Shoddy Safety Nearly a year has passed since the Deepwater Horizon explosion killed eleven workers and caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history. A presidential commission blamed Transocean, the owner of the rig, and both BP and Halliburton for cost-cutting that caused the blowout. The BP blowout's ravages continue, and it may be many years before we understand the full impacts of the oil disaster including the health implications of Corexit, the dispersant that was used to break apart the oil to minimize the (visible) damage. Transocean leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to BP, and 9 of the workers killed in the blowout were employees of the offshore drilling giant.	6th April 2011
	Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years Even a regional nuclear war could spark "unprecedented" global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models. [Wrong-headedness reaches new peaks in this lazy, misleading article.]	5th March 2011
	Nuclear war could reverse global warming, NASA says NASA researchers discover that a regional conflict on the level of 100 Hiroshima bombs could have dramatic effects on ongoing global warming concerns, though with grave consequences.	5th March 2011
	Greenhouse solar plant for cheaper extraction of oil (PhysOrg.com) -- A Californian company has found a way to reduce the cost of making steam for use in extracting oil from old oil fields: they heat the water using free sunlight.	5th March 2011
	Saudi Arabia seeks share of $100 billion climate aid fund OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is a special case in need of climate aid if the world shifts to clean energy, the world's top oil exporter told the United Nations ahead of a Monday deadline for proposals about slowing global warming.	21st February 2011
	Climate change: the top conspiracy theories Conspiracy theorists agree the data purported to show our planet is warming has been fabricated - but can't agree on whether to blame the East, the West, the Left or the Right.	30th January 2011
	Begich: As the Arctic melts, let's Drill, Baby, Drill Yesterday, Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) said that the rapid warming of the Arctic because of oil pollution means that more Arctic drilling should commence. Brad Johnson has the story on yet another amplifying carbon-cycle feedback - burning of fossil fuels melting ice that allows more access to fossil fuels we can burn. Begich was responding to the presidential oil spill commission's report, which recommended new drilling around Alaska, subject to stronger standards. The Democratic senator from the state most changed by global warming pollution used the commission's report to emphasize his desire for more "Arctic development" ...	16th January 2011
	Fearing high gas prices, Sean Hannity proposes re-invading Iraq and Kuwait to "take all their oil" I'm not certain what is more inane: That Hannity would say this - or that he actually believes such an invasion would lower oil prices for Americans. Think Progress has the story (with video) in this cross-post. Friday's Hannity on Fox News featured a discussion by the Great American Panel about high gas prices, which host Sean Hannity claimed are "now gonna go up to three, four, five dollars a gallon again." The panel ruefully noted that Arab sheiks possess great amounts of oil, and pointed out a recent statement by Kuwait's oil minister that he believes the market can withstand $100-per-barrel oil.	16th January 2011
	What was the role of warmists in the Queensland flood disaster? Australia was told to prepare for droughts as a result of climate change, and let down its guard against flooding, writes Christopher Booker. [Bonkers Booker yet again...] See also: Australian floods: Why were we so surprised?	16th January 2011
	Boris Johnson cuts congestion charge zone in 'Christmas gift' to west London . Mayor of London keeps promise to scrap western part of the charging area. Anticipated loss of revenue could be as high as £70m a year. Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, said today that the abolition of the western congestion zone is his "Christmas present" to west Londoners.Labour branded the decision "one of the worst decisions the mayor has made", but Johnson insisted it proved he was a man of his word.The Conservative mayor, who is under pressure to improve London's air quality, which is the worst in the UK and ranks among the worst in Europe, has nevertheless delivered on a promise to scrap the western extension of the congestion charge, despite an anticipated loss of annual revenue ranging from £55m to £70m for Transport for London and the prospect of a rise in pollution and congestion in the area.Following a public consultation, ...	24th December 2010

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