Woodland league "learns" more about climate - Daily Democrat Online

Niemeier, in a sometimes serious, sometimes amusing talk, highlighted the differences between the current California emission standards laws in place, and the way we implement them as a state.

She compared the amount of petroleum used per capita in America to Norway and Sweden, and then, for good measure, compared the so-called "Happiness Index" of the three countries, demonstrating that using more gas doesn't make us happier.

How many of us would be "happy" after spending one year without any of the benefits of fossil fuels?

What to say to a warmist named Schwarzenegger - Opinion - The Orange County Register

To give the debate a shove in the right direction, here are some global warming tipping-point, talking points to raise over dinner

Gorrie: As warming skeptics gloat, the Earth gets hotter - thestar.com

Supposedly neutral commentators and reporters regularly present as fact that the British researchers fixed their findings, or that the famous hockey stick graph – which illustrates rapid warming of the average global temperature during the past few decades after centuries of relative stability – is a fraud.

Could novels about climate change shake us to our senses? | Grist

A spate of novels and movies that feature climate change as either an overt part of the story line or an implicit backdrop against which mythical heroes strive may be creating the critical mass for a cultural awakening that allows climate change to be perceived at that pre-rational level—the kind of limbic awareness that motivates change. Or so we can hope.

Full disclosure: I am at work on a trilogy that tells the story of one man’s struggle to prevent climate change, and to survive it and preserve some small part of nature when he fails.

Twitter / David Roberts

Michael Morris, CEO of American Electric Power: cap&dividend would take money from "mom in the Midwest and dividend it to Paris Hilton."