The Washington Independent » Bernie Sanders on the Green Movement: This Is ‘Our Moment’

Calling this “our moment” to fix the country’s economic problems, Sanders shot down concerns about the feasibility of creating a green economy in a matter of years. “I would remind everybody, when sometimes we are a little depressed about the situation and how slow government works, I want you go back to 1941, go back to December 1941, when this country was attacked at Pearl Harbor and America had to respond and fight wars on two fronts, in Asia and Europe, had to completely retool its economy to a war economy. We did this in two years. Two years. So anybody who tells you we can’t retool this economy to combat the danger of global warming and move to sustainable energy, move to a new transportation system, I think they are missing the boat. It can be done.”

New Gas: MIT Researchers Identify Potent New Greenhouse Gas - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The unintended law of consequences strikes again. The 20-year old campaign to save the ozone layer has led to the widespread industrial use of a greenhouse gas 4,800 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Scafetta and Willson: New Paper Demonstrates Anthropogenic Contribution to Global Warming Overestimated, Solar Contribution Underestimated

“This finding has evident repercussions for climate change and solar physics. Increasing TSI between 1980 and 2000 could have contributed significantly to global warming during the last three decades [Scafetta and West, 2007, 2008]. Current climate models [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007] have assumed that the TSI did not vary significantly during the last 30 years and have therefore underestimated the solar contribution and overestimated the anthropogenic contribution to global warming.”