Climate Change Is Inevitable — It’s Time to Adapt | Magazine

Getting real health care to the several billion people who lack it will be much better insurance against illness than wishful thinking about a Goldilocks climate. None of these are complete solutions—it’s the sum of all progress that will get us through.

It’s worth keeping in mind that the planet we inhabit has always been fundamentally out of control, driven by fantastically complex, chaotic systems we scarcely understand. With or without our help, dear Mother Earth is capable of producing circumstances highly inimical to human life.

Steven Morris meets bicycle protestors preparing for Copenhagen | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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The Blackboard » Does refusing 2% of data matter?

The meaningful point is that key data are refused. This key data is required to answer the specific questions asked by those outside the elite climate community. Even if refused data represents less than 0.1% of the data that is available, if the information is necessary to answer questions of interest, then refusal effectively blocks outsiders from getting the answer to key questions.

Leaked Global Warming Docs: "Publicity Machine" Used To Manipulate Journalists And Intimidate Scientists | Mere Rhetoric

Once scientists shift from producing knowledge to circling the wagons in public against "those with alterior [sic] motives," they're no longer holding up their end of the science/public bargain. They've become an activist tribe. They might be a very impassioned activist tribe, but that doesn't get them back to being good scientists.