Climate Progress » Blog Archive » CNN, ABC, WashPost, AP, blow Australian wildfire, drought, heatwave “Hell (and High Water) on Earth” story — never mention climate change

The New York Times ran a much better story today than their earlier AP-inspired stories, no doubt because “Andrew C. Revkin contributed reporting from New York.”

Here's why the truth about global warming matters to you...

The mystical "carbon credit" based upon something you can't see or touch, estimated by mathematical and theoretical formulas you can't begin to comprehend, tracked through book keeping entries you'll never see, trading for billions of dollars you can't even begin to relate to...often your taxpayer dollars...to far away lands to be spent, again theoretically, on "green" stuff. Recent audits, if even at all in the first place manageable, are...no big surprise here...proving that tons of that dough could be ending up just about anywhere, being spent on just about anything. Use your imagination, and don't hold back, either.

Alleged global warming hero Kulongoski asks for federal snow removal help

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski included Washington County in a Friday request for federal aid to help cover the costs of record snowfall in December 2008.

Kulongoski requested a federal disaster declaration in Clatsop, Columbia, Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, and Yamhill counties for infrastructure repair of damages from the winter storm event that affected Oregonians from Dec. 20-26, 2008.

Wagging the "Fat Tail" of Climate Catastrophe: How much should we pay to avoid the tiny risk of total destruction? - Reason Magazine

Finally, the question must be asked: Why hasn't anyone ever done an analysis of the fat tailed probability that bad government policy will cause a civilization wrecking catastrophe?