C3: Multiple Peer-Research Confirms Huge Urban Heat Island Effect - It's The Real Warming Problem Being Ignored By Politicians

Besides the normal night time warming from radiating buildings and parking lots, there are urban heat island (UHI) impacts that affect coastal waters, watershed evaporation, and soil. As these multiple studies indicate, UHI is huge, diverse, and has a larger impact than CO2

UKIP, far-right politics and a ban on the burka -Times Online

Both parties are also wooing far-right voters by using idiot logic to dismiss the [junk] science of climate change, indicating a preference for pretend solutions over real ones. The new far Right of British politics now sees both ignorance and intolerance as virtues, and has UKIP firmly aboard.
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Dr Richard Milne

Editorial - Ms. Murkowski’s Mischief - NYTimes.com

Senator Lisa Murkowski’s home state of Alaska is ever so slowly melting away, courtesy of a warming planet. Yet few elected officials seem more determined than she to throw sand in the Obama administration’s efforts to do something about climate change.
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Judging by the latest and daffiest idea to waft from Ms. Murkowski’s office, she may not want a bill at all.

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