US: For the lunatic in YOUR life…

Three degrees of hold in every can!

Climate control shampoo.

Germany: Government releases new black list

This time round, it’s climate change sceptics:

Scotland: How to make money from wind farms?

Switch them off.

US: How do you deal with uncomfortable truths?

Burn the books that contain them.

UK: The Primate of All England, and a really together guy

What do you mean, it’s not really the Archbishop?

UK: Questions in the House

The Honourable Peter Lilley, MP, skewers the UK government’s carbon fairy tales:

US: How to sell an electric car for $100,000?

Make it for $650,000.

UK: Time for another mutiny?

Britain wasted more than £250,000 in aid on a failed wind farm project for just 55 people in the South Pacific.

Italy: Government seizes Mafia-linked ‘green’ investments

How dare you exploit innocent taxpayers? That’s OUR job!

US: How do you solve an imaginary problem?

Produce imaginary fuel!

Canada: Your taxes at play

Succinct and utterly damning.

UK: Can’t squeeze fuel out of wheat? Squeeze funds out of taxpayers instead!

Or is it shareholders? Nobody seems to know.

Australia: How daft dietary laws cost YOU money

Think that crazy Islamic Halal food regulations have no impact on your life? Think again.

Global: I am sceptic, hear me roar…

Watts Up With That has won both the Science Category and ‘Weblog of the Year’ in the annual Bloggies Awards. Several other AGW sceptic sites have also won their respective categories.

Watts Up With That?

UK: Green energy — we get the green, and nobody gets the energy

Bad science leads to bad policy. And bad policy kills pensioners.

Philippines: How to make $90,000 for your religion?

Threaten to kill someone.

UK: Ah, wind farms! Is there ANYTHING they can do?

Apparently not.

UK: When hysteria trumps economics

A rational economist visits Climate Wonderland…

We desire to limit climate change in order to stop us causing the future to be poorer than it need be. It is simply entirely fucking insane to then cause the future to be poorer than it need be by overspending on climate change as a way of preventing the future from being poorer than it need be.

via Tim Worstall

India: Mother Teresa a greedy, faking sadist

Apparently Christopher Hitchens was too kind…

Australia: Scientologists spread fear and panic to gain their ends

Thereby infringing on a government monopoly…

Global: “Fear! Fear! We need more fear!”

A new survey by Globescan of 22,812 people in 22 countries, including Britain and the US makes depressing reading for Big Green, fear of CO2 is at a 20 year low, and this is despite billions of dollars being wasted on junk science projects with a preordained political result, and all gilded with never ending fear stories about impending environmental holocaust.

US: EPA has ‘nothing to hide’ — and boy, do they hide it well!

Caption redacted

EPA officials got serious in the second tranche of emails they released to CEI late Friday, pursuant to a court ruling that ordered the agency to comply with our FOIA requests. This time, we got actual emails … that revealed a lot … about the fine art of redaction. Remember, this is the production of the most powerful regulatory agency of the most transparent administration in history. “We have nothing to hide,” the EPA has told us. Sure doesn’t seem that way to us:

www.globalwarming.org

Global: “We won’t know if global warming is real until after I retire” — Pachauri

With a healthy superannuation plan, of course.

THE UN’s climate change chief, Rajendra Pachauri, has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain’s Met Office, but said it would need to last “30 to 40 years at least” to break the long-term global warming trend.

Dr Pachauri, the chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that open discussion about controversial science and politically incorrect views was an essential part of tackling climate change.

The Australian

Vatican: Barmy Benny, the exorcist’s friend!

And you thought everyone hated Ratzo!

Father Gabriele Amorth, the founder and head of the International Association of Exorcists, said the German pontiff had “done many things for exorcists” during his eight-year papacy, which will come to an end on Feb 28.

He said Benedict, regarded as a staunch conservative during his time in office, had “allowed exorcists to administer the sacrament of exorcism not only to people who are suffering from demonic possession, but also those who suffer other evil disorders, such as diabolical infestations.”

Telegraph

Our slogan: ‘Complete satisfaction or your demons back”.

Q: What happens if you don’t pay your exorcist’s fee?

A: You get repossessed.

As for ‘diabolical infestations’ — I’m sure there’s a joke there somewhere but it eludes me for the moment.

UK: Prince of Wales’s charity nobbles homeopathy criticism

Draft guidance for the website NHS Choices warning that there is no evidence that homeopathy works was suppressed by officials following lobbying by a charity set up by the Prince of Wales.

Australia: Little Pebble’s parole application gets stony response

A cult leader who used his influence to rape several minors has not changed his behaviour and should not be granted parole, the NSW State Parole Authority says.

UK: Green policy champion also an abusive husband, court told

Disgraced MP [ex-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change] Chris Huhne pressured his ex-wife into having an abortion because it was “bad timing”, she has told a court.

Australia: You KNOW your government’s in trouble…

…when Al Gore comes out in support.

US: Catholic cardinal admits to no original thought since 1964

Which should come as no surprise to anyone.

Germany: Carbon criminals all the way up

Jürgen Fitschen, co-chief executive, and Stefan Krause, a director, are involved in the investigation that on Wednesday saw hundreds of police and tax officials raid the bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt, as well as private addresses in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.

The investigation is centred on 25 of the bank’s staff, according to German prosecutors, and involves allegations of tax evasion, money laundering and obstruction of justice linked to carbon trading certificates.

Telegraph

As a commentator on WattsUpWithThat put it: “This is how to make money out of thin air”.