Keith Kloor writes on Yale environment360:

"Activist Mark Lynas has alienated his green colleagues by renouncing long-held views and becoming an advocate for nuclear power and genetically modified crops. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains why he rethought his positions and turned to technology for solutions."

In the interview, Mark Lynas states:

"We cannot afford to foreclose powerful technological options like nuclear, synthetic biology, and genetic engineering because of Luddite prejudice and ideological inertia."

Forbes.com reports on the findings of an exhaustive new study, released by Bentek Energy, a Colorado-based energy analytics firm. Rather than rely on computer models that use theoretical emissions data, the authors of the study, Porter Bennett and Brannin McBee, analyzed actual emissions data from electric generation plants located in four regions.

The conclusion:

• Wind energy's carbon dioxide-cutting benefits are vastly overstated
• The reductions are too expensive to be used on any kind of scale

Brendan O'Neill comments in "The Australian":

"Has any intellectual current ever been so disparaged and demonised, so ferociously harangued by the chattering classes, as climate-change scepticism?

Every slur in the book has been hurled at those who dare to question climate-change orthodoxies.

They've been compared to Holocaust deniers. They've been branded psychologically disordered. They only use their "reptilian brain", says one eco-author, which means their outlook on climate change is not "modulated by logic, reason or reflective thought", Al Gore says.

And now, ..." 

By Peter Heller

For some people, especially children, a spot-the-errors diagram is a lot of fun. But there is nothing funny about errors and inaccuracies in scientific diagrams. This at times is purposely done in political debates in order to hide just how poorly certain claims truly are. How diagrams can be used to mislead is well known. There are books and plenty of articles about it everywhere. Still, it’s attempted time and again, and often successfully. One particularly perfidious example has been produced by the German Weather Service (Deutsche Wetterdienst – DWD). The following graphic was brought to my attention by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) in a recent article.

Figure 1: The DWD “spot the errors” diagram. (Click to enlarge)