It appears that the Reds wearing Green are doubling down, likely before word gets out that the science has leaned down hard on the side of 'no AGW' and 'no planetary emergency' with the 5th IPCC report. The skeptics knew this anyway, and kept telling people that 'climate sensitivity' was quite lower than was believed, that co2 did not and could not have the dramatic effect that was believed. They've been proven right, but don't expect accolades.
As a part of this, an interesting and very positive thing has arose. Due to the fact that the skeptics' scientific musings and articles went largely unpublished, there has developed on at least two web sites serious research being done outside the old 'peer reviewed framework' of journals. These sites are climateaudit.org and
http://wattsupwiththat.com/.
One further rather scary note is from the solar physict Lockwood, who says there is something now like a 25% chance based on observed solar activity that we are now entering a several centuries long global cooling phase. I say scary because any sort of cooling would cause massive starvation due to limits on food production. These same articles quoting Lockwood tend to end on the note "but don't worry it will be offset by human caused global warming so everything will be okay".
Well, what is it, bad or good? Or is it all just scare stories designed to get compliance with government and taxes?
Final note, what is one to read into the vision of a "clean energy economy?" It's an attempt to build and maintain a "Climate-Industrial Complex", which in the view of greenies, should and could be as vast and powerful as the Exxons of the world. Unfortunately, on all sides the attempts to prop up these operations are either failing or becoming increasingly expensive. How long these people with magical thinking may take to figure out the losing proposition is not easy to say, since this would involve destroying and replacing a number of faith driven belief patterns.
