Helen Clark calls for action on climate change

The head of the United Nation's Development Agency's, Helen Clark, has called for climate change to be put at the very centre of international development thinking, during her 2-day visit to Australia.

Spirit rover buttons down for harsh winter on Mars

Spirit was built to endure the cold temperatures and low solar angles during Martian winter...

Atmosphere of Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The atmosphere on Mars consists of 95% carbon dioxide

On Climate Sensitivity on Earth and Mars « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

What is then the mass ratio of CO2 between Mars and Earth?

In Earth’s atmosphere: 385ppm volume –> 585ppm mass –> 3.01 * 10^15 kg
In Mars’s atmosphere: 953,200ppm volume –> 967,925ppm mass –> 2.42 * 10^16 kg

Climate scientists are losing ground against deniers' disinformation | Joss Garman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Prolific climate deniers such as Ian Plimer, James Delingpole and Christopher Booker who deliberately spread untruths on climate change can be wrong 99% of the time and right for less than 1% of the time and still win the argument because the playing field simply isn't level. Equally, the IPCC can be right 99% of the time and wrong less than 1% of the time, and they still lose.

The climate movement would be wrong to underestimate the damage that's been done over these last few weeks. One extremely influential British journalist told me that editors are coming under significant pressure to adopt a more contrarian stance on the climate science because they are receiving scores of emails and telephone calls daily from the public demanding a more sceptical line. They are receiving very few messages supporting the consensus scientific view.
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We climate activists need to ask ourselves how this whole incongruous state of affairs came about. The most zealous deniers, a subculture of outlandish paranoid conspiracy theorists, claim to speak for independent thinking when in truth they're the shock troops for a choking and insidious form of censorship, blotting out the truth with the ideology and interests of the world's most powerful Big Carbon corporates.

EU Referendum: The second front

76, the comments on the Mail on Sunday piece on Phil Jones must be close to a record.

With the commentary from Anthony Watts on the original interview, with Roger Harrabin, there can be no doubt that something remarkable has just happened.