Pakistan emerges as bridge builder in climate change [scam] talks

NEW DELHI: Pakistan is working towards developing a solution to climate change because it is in the country’s interest, said Farrukh Khan, Director of Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In an exclusive interview with The News, he said: “We are playing the role of a bridge builder and have been chairing meetings in the process. It’s difficult, however, to quantify the achievements.”

Climate Change Cacaphony - Washington Post comments

We'll close with 12thgenamerican, who predicted, "i can't wait for the climate bill town halls,if they have them. you are going to see a backlash that will make the health care town halls look like a sunday social. out with the radical leftists."

Our best guess about global warming may be wrong | csmonitor.com

They know that a dramatic spike in carbon dioxide associated with rapid climate change kicked off the epoch – called the “Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum” (PETM). But what scientists don’t understand about the PETM may hold the most relevant lessons for where the world’s climate is headed today.

So far, scientists have been unable to reproduce the PETM in a climate model. In order to get the climate they suspect existed, they have to crank up carbon dioxide far beyond what they think was actually the case.

Franny Armstrong: 'If you're not fighting climate change or improving the world, you're wasting your life' | Environment | The Guardian

Franny Armstrong is talking about yeast. "If you put yeast in a jar and give it an energy source like sugar, it will gobble that up as fast as it can, surround itself with its own waste and then die." There is, she suggests, a close parallel between yeast and us. "We're on the yeast path. But we're worse than that – we're intelligent. We are going to be the first species to wipe itself off the planet knowingly."