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EDITOR’S CHOICE: Matt Patterson in the September 2 New York Post writes: “If this keeps up, no one's going to trust any scientists. The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation.”

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: John Cloud in TIME, August 30, writes “One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do.... Abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers."

Tisbury Great Pond in headier days

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa write in the August 20, 2010 Boston Herald  “Welcome to Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. President - but don’t go in the water! President Obama, who took a plunge in the Gulf last week to show Americans it was safe to swim the oil spill-plagued area, arrived on this supposedly pristine island yesterday in the midst of a rash of bacteria-induced beach closings.”

Perch Pond in better days

EDITOR’S CHOICE:  Katie Zezima in the August 17 New York Times writes: “Rising nitrogen levels are suffocating the vegetation and marine life in saltwater ponds and estuaries on Cape Cod, creating an environmental and infrastructure problem that, if left unchecked, will threaten the shellfishing industry, the tourist economy and the beaches that lure so many summer visitors.”

HEAT WAVE, SICHUAN PROVINCE , CHINA/REUTERS STINGER

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Anybody in Hollywood or New York want to move to China? We will pay their way if they promise to swim a lot, and never to return to the US.

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EDITOR’S CHOICE:  By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, Wednesday, July 28, 2010; The long-anticipated Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' electric car, will cost $41,000, the company announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above that of similarly sized conventional autos.

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EDITORS’S CHOICE: By Neil Reynolds in The Globe and Mail, July 19,  2010. “Stanford University physicist Robert Laughlin says governments – and people generally – should proceed with more humility in dealing with climate change. The Earth, he says, is very old and has suffered grievously: volcanic explosions, floods, meteor impacts, mountain formation “and all manner of other abuses greater than anything people could inflict.” Yet, the Earth is still here. ‘It’s a survivor.’”

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EDITOR’S CHOICE:  U.S. Senator  Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) writes “Nuclear Energy Is Cheap and Reliable” U.S. News & World Report July 19, 2010. "Today nuclear power produces 20 percent of our nation’s electricity but 70 percent of our carbon-free electricity."

by Lamar Alexander

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: Posted on July 12th, 2010 The Big Green Lie Exposed Posted In: Global Warming, Politics As the reports from Dutch and British watchdog panels came in last week, greens hailed what they see as a vindication of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit and the partial rehabilitation of the IPCC, but they are wrong.  As usual, the greens (and many of their critics) are missing the point.

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: Terence Corcoran writes in the National Post “The last of three British investigations into the notorious Climategate emails, the Independent Climate Change Email Review, landed yesterday and left behind enough cherry-pickable material to give all sides an opportunity to claim modest vindication. The review provides plenty of evidence that climate science has been and remains an uncertain shambles.”