Politicizing science from the left: The dissenting state climatologists

Thursday evening I enjoyed the pleasure of an off-the-record dinner conversation with a leading "skeptic" of anthropogenic global warming. He talked at length about the political pressure that is brought to bear against scientists who have openly broken with the "consensus" promulgated by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore, and other putative authorities on the subject.
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Imagine the outrage if Republicans had done these things, and remember these men the next time you are pinned to the wall at a cocktail party by some liberal whining that the Bush administration politicized science in some unique way. [Via Heliogenic Climate Change]

Kenya blames CO2 for problems

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Friday that global warming is a threat to food security, warning that it could wipe out efforts aimed at tackling poverty in Africa unless urgent steps are taken to address it.

Odinga noted that with rising population and unchecked changes in climate, food crisis is a disaster waiting to happen.

"No wonder we are moving from one food emergency to another, in between courting hunger, anger and death," Odinga said when closing a roundtable on disaster, risk reduction and climate change in Nairobi.

Feb '08: Frost affects Kenyan tea production

Four Kenyan tea factories have suspended operations following a frost attack on green leaf in Nandi South.
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Eight years ago, multinational companies in the district suffered heavy losses after the region was hit by frost. More than 40,000 tea workers lost their jobs, while firms and smallholder farmers incurred losses running into millions of shillings.

Kenya, August '08:  Tea output falls 21 percent

The fall was caused by frost and dry weather. The trader said the cold weather prevailing in tea-growing areas meant production might not pick up soon.

Sept '08 | 'Snowfall' shocks Kenyan village

Residents of a village in central Kenya were shocked to see a blanket of hail resembling snow covering their land.

"I have not seen such a thing ever since I was born," said one resident of Nyahururu.

"Where shall we graze our cattle now? We do not know when this thing will melt," said another.