Books of The Times - Bill Streever’s ‘Cold’ - Tour of a Disappearing World - Review - NYTimes.com

We are living in a rapidly warming world, Mr. Streever mournfully writes. This fact is his excuse to visit as many of the planet’s remaining cold places as he can, if not exactly to say goodbye then to consider the intrinsic nature of cold weather and our responses to it, and to think about what life will be like in its increasing absence.
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The book ends the only way it probably can, with its author staring up to the sky and observing, “Thanks to the Industrial Revolution, thanks to coal and oil and natural gas, thanks to more than six hundred million cars and trucks and buses, spring is fading into hothouse summer on planet earth.” The end of our species seems far more likely to arrive by fire than by ice.

On climate change, socialist economics now trumps scientific credibility | Letters to the Editor | STLtoday

Recent lampooning of Congressman Baline Luetkemeyer’s criticism of the global warming mantra and background as a farmer and political science graduate contrast sharply with your deafening silence when Paul Krugman’s column vilified skeptics of the so-called theory. I guess socialist economics trumps scientific credibility.

One thousand years ago the island of Greenland was named by Norse settlers because they could graze their cattle and sheep on its grassy expanse. Where was the all important ice cap then? Perhaps middle age industry produced greenhouse gases that warmed the planet. The Little Ice Age, circa 1250 AD-1850AD, certainly cooled things off. Your scientific looking chart conveniently begins in 1860. How coincidental.

Saskatchewan crop development behind normal

According to this week’s crop report, crops are reported as being in good to fair condition, but development is two to three weeks behind where it should be this time of year.

“It’s still a carry-over from the (late) spring, mainly the cooler temperatures in particularly May and early June. And in some cases compounded with lower than expected precipitation, particularly in the west-central and northwest regions,” said agriculture ministry spokesman Grant McLean.

Senior Liberals at odds on climate change strategy | The Australian

But Mr Abbott said Mr Turnbull was being "far from arrogant" and knew "voters are unlikely to be argued into changing their minds" on an ETS.

"Oppositions, after all, can't save the country from the wrong side of the parliament and can't be expected to protect people from the consequences of changing government," he said. "It will be the cost and complexity of emissions trading and the absence of anything much out of the ordinary about climate that will slowly engender second thoughts."

Mr Abbott also said the Coalition was in a political bind climate change. "The problem, at least for politicians who prefer rational debate to following fads, is the public's current perception that climate change is uniquely dangerous and particularly associated with man-made carbon dioxide emissions," he said.

Only one excuse for Abbott’s surrender | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Abbott is asking the Liberals to support a pretend fix to a pretend problem that will actually throw thousands of people out of work and cost us billions.