For purveyors of climate alarm, emotional displays of intolerance are increasingly crowding out reasoned argument. But remember the adage: “Hate hurts the hater more than the hated.”

The mandate to use ethanol in gasoline makes groceries and gas more expensive while not delivering reductions in pollution or energy independence.

The climate change debate rages, beginning with physical science and continuing with economic analysis and government policy. The good news is that the balance of evidence continues to point toward modest warming scenarios, not catastrophic ones, from the human influence on global climate. This would seem to be good news.

Canadian oil heading across the Pacific instead of flowing down a pipeline to American refineries is bad news for the environment.