Global Warming and Energy

Doha delegates surprised to learn global warming has stopped for 16 years.

"Precisely because journalists no longer bother to provide the inconvenient truth to their audiences, and because they are no longer willing even to provide the people with the straightforward facts without which democracy itself cannot function, the depressingly ill-informed and scientifically-illiterate delegates in Doha can be forgiven for not having known that global warming stopped a long while back.
That is why they should have been excited and delighted when they heard the news – nearly all of them for the very first time.
But this was the alternative reality that is the corrupt, self-serving U.N. Howls, hoots and hollers of dismay and fury greeted my short, polite announcement. This absurdly inappropriate reaction raises a fascinating question.
How are we to dig a rat-hole wide enough to allow the useful idiots and true-believers to escape as each passing year makes it more and more obvious that their fatuous credo has all the plausibility of the now somewhat discredited notion that the world was to be snuffed out at this year’s winter solstice?"

Naturally they were rooting for more warming because they know the warming doesn't hurt them, but it provides another excuse to steal our money.

EPA orders E15 to gas pumps.

"'We've force fed a fuel into every American's car that benefits a few thousand corn farmers and ethanol refiners at the expense of virtually every other American,' says Scott Faber."

Lovely.

Oil article blames rising oil prices on Obama cutting his vacation short. This claims seems to be based on futures traders believing that Obama coming back early means that a fiscal cliff deal is imminent, which is supposedly good for the economy and will lead to greater demand for oil.