Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Article In Western Water Law “Wet Winter In Arizona’s High Country Brings Worries About Floods - Not Drought”

The wet winter this year in Arizona should be yet another wake-up call to policymakers who are using multi-decadal regional climate predictions, assuming that they have skill, when the real world data indicates otherwise. The southwest USA has not moved into a perpetual drought due to the addition of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

04/30/2009 -- ClimateWire -- The Politics and Business of [the Climate Change Scam] [subs. req'd]

Imperiled people worldwide might be saved financially from rising climate risk by "a little paragraph" in the global framework on climate change being drafted this December in Copenhagen. The blurb could give insurance a formal role in international efforts to confront increasing threats related to drought, flooding and growing storms.

It can be done but what is it we are doing? - Times Online

"Oh Lord, make me carbon-neutral, but not yet.”

If St Augustine were in charge of UK energy policy, he might utter such a prayer. The sheer scale and cost of putting Britain on the path towards zero carbon is only beginning to become apparent.

In its report, published on Thursday, the UK Energy Research Centre suggests that a carbon price signal of £200 a tonne, 15 times the present level, is needed if we are to reach the Government's target of an 80 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050.
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We can do these things, slowly, but must understand we are doing more than just building windmills. We are moving from a market economy to a planned economy. It will be hard to go back.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Susan Solomon Enters Political Fray Over Coal

I was surprised to receive the email copied below. In it the Sierra Club announces an evening with Susan Solomon — a colleague of mine here at CIRES, widely respected scientist and chair of IPCC Working Group I for the AR4 — as part of their “Beyond Coal” campaign.

Some background information on Susan Solomon is here.