Brad Johnson (climatebrad) on Twitter: He almost makes Joe Romm look sane

Funny how newspapers expect us to listen to their IPCC bashing even though their own articles are edited by anonymous, unaccountable editors
@MrPaladin Seriously? Are you a birther too?
@sonicjamesdean Almost as if the climate "scandal" is just a bunch of foundless conspiracy theories and smears. Are you a birther too?
I wonder if Donald Trump is a birther and a truther too.
WaPo sez those clumsy #climate scientists deserve the broken arms they get from the drunk abusive right wing...

Wonk Room: [Regarding Brad]

Brad Johnson is a Climate Researcher/Blogger for ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Brad holds a bachelor’s degree in math and physics from Amherst College and master’s degree in geosciences from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. He is the co-author of Technomanifestos and the founder of HillHeat.com. Prior to joining the Center, he worked as a developer for Saatchi & Saatchi, Lextranet, and the Democratic National Committee. Brad grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.

The strange death of liberal England | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

We seem to be living through the demise of liberal England all over again. The current crisis in climate science is a profound shock to anyone who thought that, for all the cataclysms of the early 21st century, there were some basic values and rationalities that held our society on course. It seems science itself is disintegrating into tit for tat internet accusations and email scandal. Where is human reason if the lines between research, belief and subjectivity disappear?

And where is the liberalism of the New Labour era if it cannot even make a scientific case for environmental action without it being assailed by dogma? We're now in a realm where the maddest opinions are valid and the most apparently cogent are open to doubt.

The strange death of liberal England has us in its grip.

Could transparency make up for a lack of a carbon cap? | Grist

If we can’t yet require companies to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants, can we shame them into doing it?
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But greenhouse gases aren’t toxic and don’t have direct regional effects, so there’s less reason for locals to care about emissions from nearby factories.