How to Solve the Climate Problem: James Hansen

The public must be firm and unwavering in demanding "no offsets," because this sort of monkey business is exactly the type of thing that politicians love and will try to keep. Offsets are like the indulgences that were sold by the church in the Middle Ages. People of means loved indulgences, because they could practice any hanky-panky or worse, then simply purchase an indulgence to avoid punishment for their sins. Bishops loved them too, because they brought in lots of moola. Anybody who argues for offsets today is either a sinner who wants to pretend he or she has done adequate penance or a bishop collecting moola.

Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? - BusinessWeek

It's a cautionary tale. "If we can cheat on something like sulfur hexafluoride, what happens when carbon dioxide is worth $50 or $100 per ton?" asks Michael R. Woelk, CEO of Picarro, a measuring instruments company in Sunnyvale, Calif. SF6 is not unique.

Cap and Trade, A big boost for Organized Crime. | Gather

As is the case in Europe, it's only a matter of time before organized crime joins in the act.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Check this diagram of the year's news. Find climate? Climategate? Copenhagen? http://j.mp/noCO2news

Video and Slides from AGU Panel: Re-Starting the Conversation on Climate Change [Framing Science] | World Association of Young Scientists

As news and blog readers, even scientists are susceptible to this media influence. In fact, as I note, given the ideological and partisan leaning of scientists documented in the recent Pew-AAAS survey, this ideological orientation likely shapes many scientists views of political controversies and policy debates (see also this recent study). The reliably liberal outlook provided by prominent science commentators and bloggers only likely magnifies this tendency to rely on ideology as a cognitive short-cut in forming policy preferences and in assigning blame for inaction.

KCPW » Protesters Scream for Climate Change [Fraud]

(KCPW News) Climate change activists will stage a “scream-in” today at the Gateway Mall in downtown Salt Lake City to vent their frustrations about the Copenhagen Accord adopted by global leaders two weeks ago. University of Utah student Cléa Major says the demonstration is intended to call attention to the fact that the accord doesn’t require countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“Basically we want your average shopper to go home tonight after work and say, ‘Man, you know, I was returning my Christmas gift and there were these people screaming on the sidewalk, you know, what’s that all about?’” Major says. “We wanted to make an impression on people and we wanted to maybe put it in a location where it wasn’t necessarily expected to get people out of the post-Christmas haze to just sort of listen.”

MoreMarin Buzz Home: Hit It and Quit It! - Climate change and all that

The best way to inform a climate-change denier is to show him the evidence of change. So I invited U.S. Senator James Hindhoof of Oklahoma to come to Marin this holiday season to see for himself the results of human-induced climate change. To my surprise he accepted the invitation!

I took him across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco to the Marin side by snowmobile.