New FERC Chief Buys Into Climate Change Scam - washingtonpost.com

Add a new name to the list of Obama appointees devoted to aggressive action on climate change.

President Obama yesterday named Jon Wellinghoff -- a lawyer who once served as Nevada's consumer advocate and a believer that electric-car owners could someday get paid to provide backup battery power to the electricity grid -- as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Chris Mooney - Climate Change's Myths and Facts - washingtonpost.com

Readers and commentators must learn to share some practices with scientists -- following up on sources, taking scientific knowledge seriously rather than cherry-picking misleading bits of information, and applying critical thinking to the weighing of evidence. That, in the end, is all that good science really is. It's also what good journalism and commentary alike must strive to be -- now more than ever.
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Chris Mooney is the author of "The Republican War on Science" and co-author of the forthcoming "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future."

If the world is warming, why was winter cold and snowy? | theithacajournal.com | The Ithaca Journal

For all that cold Artic air, we can thank La Niña. But for the snow, part of the blame goes to global warming.

Oversight Kills Climate Change Bill Passed by Utah Legislature - KCPW

(KCPW News) A bill that would have limited the executive branch's power to enter into climate change agreements was killed by a technical glitch this legislative session. But Rep. Roger Barrus (R-Centerville) says he's already working on several scenarios to revive his bill. One of these is to include it in a request for a special session, which is solely up to the governor to convene.