Mocking Gore

MAYBE THEY COULD SWITCH TO BICYCLES

NASCAR chairman Brian France said he had a meeting with former vice president Al Gore about how the sport can be "greener and more environmentally smart." They believe a good start would be to require the Busch brothers to carpool.

This January is coldest since the Blizzard of ’77 : Home: The Buffalo News

Are you starting to feel like you’ve never lived through a colder January?

If you’re younger than 32, you haven’t.

So far, with five days to go, this has been the coldest January since that epic month in 1977 and the 18th-coldest in the last 139 years.
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The coldest January on record?

The blizzard year, 1977, when the average daily January temperature was a frigid 13.8 degrees. The warmest was 1932, when the average January temperature was 37.2 degrees.

David Roberts, the "climate Nuremberg" guy, weighs in: Crying wolf really really loudly is failing miserably; let's try crying wolf really really really loudly!

The public is already "aware" of climate change. It's friggin' everywhere. It gets as much as or more publicity than virtually any other sociopolitical problem outside the economic downturn. Pop stars are writing songs about it fer chrissake. Awareness: check.
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Greens, politicians, and other communicators need to get serious about calling climate change the impending catastrophe it is, with serious, dire consequences for people now living, certainly for their children.

The denial industry | David Roberts

When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.