Backing down on climate change - latimes.com

Washington appears to have lost its appetite for attacking the problem of global warming.
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If changes in the public mood and the party alignment of the U.S. Senate have stalled healthcare legislation, they may have thrown the highly anticipated climate bill under a bus.
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Our children would live in a world of mass migrations, wars and conflicts fueled by scarce water supplies, infrastructure destruction as rising sea levels swallow coastlines, extreme weather events, wildfires and increased poverty and disease. These are not the predictions of wild-eyed liberal pundits but of thousands of climate researchers [which ones, specifically? If I drive my car one or two hundred miles toward the equator, why don't I find a desolate, hellish, burning, lifeless wasteland?] around the world, along with organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academies of Sciences.
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This process can still be slowed at a moderate economic cost, but time is short -- delays make both fighting climate change and adapting to it dramatically more expensive, and eventually could make it impossible. It's foolish to say we can't afford to pass a climate bill during a recession. We can't afford not to.

Climate Change: The SEC Weighs In (Or Not) - Forbes.com

Let me try to translate. For starters, the SEC is proposing to issue an interpretive release but that is not the same as making any kind of statement regarding the facts about "climate change" or "global warming." Notice that the two terms are set off with quotation marks. If you were speaking about them you would probably hold up both your hands and wiggle your index and middle fingers up and down for emphasis. Go ahead, try it. You see that's easy.

OK, so right off the bat these "climate change" and "global warming" thingies get the finger-wiggling treatment. Why? Well Schapiro is wary of opining as to whether the world's climate is changing. Also, she's troubled about opining as to the pace of the climate change that she has no opinion about.

In the wake of ClimateGate: findings of the misconduct inquiry against Michael Mann. : Adventures in Ethics and Science

What this means is that the investigation of allegation #4 that will follow upon this inquiry will necessarily take up the broad issue of what counts as accepted scientific practices. This discussion, and the findings of the investigation committee that may flow from it, may have far reaching consequences for how the public understands what good scientific work looks like, and for how scientists themselves understand what good scientific work looks like.

Regardless of the specific findings of that investigation committee with respect to the fourth allegation against Dr. Mann, this could be big.

Gulf Daily News » World News » Firms 'threatened by climate fight'

"I wish I knew if there is a concerted attack on the scientific community and where it's coming from," de Boer said.

"I don't know if there is a campaign. I know that there are companies and countries that are very seriously concerned that ambitious action to address climate change will harm them economically," he added.
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"We can't depend only on IPCC. We've had goof ups on the glaciers, we've had goof ups on the Amazon, we've had goof ups on the snow peaks, some of the mountains, but the IPCC is a responsible body," [Ramesh] added.

Putting the Ass in Assassinate - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Whoever controls such things, please, please keep Pachauri at the IPCC and Romm at Team Soros.

EU Referendum: The killer blow

Pachauri is on the ropes but he ain't down yet. The view is it will take one more "killer blow" to fell him. We think we've found it! Under wraps at the moment, for obvious reasons, but all will be revealed.

R K Pachauri needs to be acquainted with the first rule of politics - DFWN ... since it is a family blog, you'll have to work it out for yourselves.