The Obama administration’s decision to kill the Keystone XL pipeline (which would bring oil down from Canada’s province of Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast) is emblematic of the pervasive, systematic hostility the administration has shown to all forms of fossil-fuel production and consumption. 

Professional hockey is in the doldrums, and the most logical remedy may be a long time coming.

Since the beginning of the climate change story more than 20 years ago, it has been hard to sort out whether the IPCC represents the “best” science, or merely the findings most compatible with the politically driven climate policy agenda. Both sets of Climategate emails have lifted the lid on the insides of the process, and it isn’t pretty.

The institution of science has no place for hiding data, shaping data to conform to pre-existing beliefs,undermining the peer-review process, or any other of the shady activities that the Hadley Center Climate Research Unit scientists allegedly engaged in.

Here is something of a marvel—a book by the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University that is written for the common reader, without footnotes, bibliography, or index.

In Poland, thanks to European open borders,you cannot get hold of a Polish plumber.

Even before Climategate, the climate change hysteria was beginning to resemble a Broadway musical that had run too long, with sagging box office and declining enthusiasm from a dwindling audience.

The Climategate scandal erodes the credibility of both the scientists involved and the institution of scientific research.