Ian Plimer on Climategate:

The people are speaking. We are seeing a defiance of bureaucrats, officials, government propaganda, and funded climate catastrophe researchers. A scary scientific paradigm of human-induced climate change is collapsing because the cake has been over iced. The average voter has had enough of being talked down to by arrogant scientists with vested interests who present scenarios that defy that rare commodity called common sense.

It was only a short time ago that climate rationalists were told they were factually wrong, that their skepticism was evil, their views were akin to Holocaust denial, and that they should be tried for crimes against humanity. However, Climategate emails show that the coterie of two dozen leading climate comrades shared this skepticism in private — yet denounced skeptics in public. Various cap-and-trade systems have been shown to be an extra tax, which may end up being distributed by the sticky fingers of the UN.

Which brings us to Audi's amusing and confusing Super Bowl ad.

Of course the Green Police as imagined here will never exist. They won't have to. In the future that the environmental left dreams of you won't have a choice between "paper or plastic." That decision will be handled far above your pay grade. Supermarkets simply won't offer plastic, which is cheaper for them and easier for you to carry your food in. Incandescent bulbs will not be made, even though people prefer them because they give off warmer light. Hot tubs heaters will have governors on them (though really, who can stay in a hot tub for long at 105 degrees?) etc. That's the dream of our eco-protectors, greater regulation from the top to force corporations to remove products deemed unfriendly to the eco-system from the marketplace.

In real life, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome hasn't put together a Green Police squad to enforce the toughest recycling law in the nation. When it comes to forced composting, his government is conscripting garbage men to do their work for them, so that transgressors can be identified and fined.

Welcome to the world of 21st Century eco-fascism.