Twitter: Yet another odd quote from alarmist Andy Revkin

You conflate my look at 350 the number & 350 the movement. No one doubts the success of the activism that day http://j.mp/350nyt

[Fresh off his fossil-fueled trip to Istanbul, anti-fossil fuel campaigner Andy Revkin takes a fossil-fueled trip to Portland]

One thing is clear: The mindset that sent much of the world into economic, environmental and social crisis is not the mindset that will fix our problems. Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, the world's leading environment reporter, has great ideas about how we can think fresh, change our mindset, and create a better tomorrow. In his free-to-the-public Portland lecture on Nov. 10, Revkin will talk about the natural and human challenges of supporting a population that's expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, and he'll talk about how we can restore certain environmental conditions and create a more resilient future.

In the same leaky boat on climate change [fraud] | Douglas Alexander and Mohamed Nasheed | Comment is free | The Guardian

Be in no doubt. Climate change is not tomorrow's future menace. It is today's growing catastrophe. In Copenhagen next month a meaningful deal must be secured if we are to have any hope of avoiding catastrophe.

This very human crisis is already being felt in parts of the world. This year, entire communities in Bangladesh are being forced to leave their homes due to rising sea levels; women in drought-ridden parts of Ethiopia have to walk five miles a day to collect water; and natural disasters are occurring with increasing frequency and ever more devastating results.

Climate change threatens us all. If we fail to bring it under control in the next decade we may move past the point of no return. This is a defining political test of our generation. Less than one degree of global warming since the industrial revolution has caused dangerous changes to our world.

How dumb is Adelaide? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The answer is: not very. The poll has been taken down, with the sceptics well on top.

Climate Change: Looney Tunes from Lord Monckton at The Standard

Finally, let me summarize the current state of climate science as far as it relates to the “global warming” question. The UN imagines that the direct effect of a doubling of CO2 concentration will be a warming of around 1 C, but that various temperature feedbacks operate to raise the warming to around 3.3 C. However, recent papers have established that the water-vapor feedback is nothing like as strong as the UN had believed, and that the cloud-albedo feedback actually causes cooling rather than amplifying the original warming. As a result, we now know not only that a doubling of CO2 concentration will cause less than 1 C of warming; we also now know why. The science is in, the truth is out, the models were off, and the scare is over.

- Monckton of Brenchley