I enjoyed a chance to question witnesses about the Keystone XL pipeline at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday. The witnesses were James Hansen of Columbia University Earth Institute and Michael Brune, who is executive director of the Sierra Club. Both oppose permitting the pipeline. Also testifying were Karen Alderman Harbert of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones; both favor building the pipeline.

The price of electricity – which ought to be readily known to those who talk casually about raising the price of fuels – can be found here. Wisconsin prices are here.

Barack Obama’s infamous warning that his policies would cause electricity rates to “skyrocket” can be found here.

His future energy secretary’s quote about getting our gas prices closer to Europe’s can be found here.

I mentioned several high-profile reports on the long, widely known “pause” in global warming. You can read The Economist article here and the BBC report here. Links to other reports in the mainstream press are here.

You can read the testimony before the Senate of Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore about global warming here. You can read what he wrote about Greenpeace’s wrong turn to left-wing politics here.