Robert W. Endlich: Let's deal with the facts on global warming - Silver City Sun-News

The notion of man's use of CO2 as a possible driver of climate has been the subject of several recent Letters to the Editor in the Sun-News. Over geologic time. there has been 15 to 25 times more CO2 than current concentrations; the claim that this time we will reach a tipping point is alarmist, ludicrous, and totally without foundation.

CO2 is a colorless, odorless gas, and essential to life; to regard it as a pollutant is just wrong.

India half a degree warmer in 100 years: Minister | Sindh Today - Online News

New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) There has been a warming of about 0.5 degrees Celsius in the average temperature in India over the past 100 years, the government informed parliament Monday.

Reminder: Globally averaged temperatures have plunged .74°F (-.39°C) since Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth

For the record, this month’s Al Gore / AIT Index indicates that global temperatures have plunged approximately .74°F (.39°C) since An Inconvenient Truth was released.

PAUL KRUGMAN - Boiling the Frog - Creeping Disasters for the Economy and the Planet - NYTimes.com

Put it this way: if the consensus of the economic experts is grim, the consensus of the climate experts is utterly terrifying. At this point, the central forecast of leading climate models — not the worst-case scenario but the most likely outcome — is utter catastrophe, a rise in temperatures that will totally disrupt life as we know it, if we continue along our present path. How to head off that catastrophe should be the dominant policy issue of our time.
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What makes the apparent paralysis of policy especially alarming is that so little is happening when the political situation seems, on the surface, to be so favorable to action.