Advice to priests: shut up about climate change, talk about sin – Telegraph Blogs

There’s an article in the new issue of the Catholic Herald that skewers trendy, fad-chasing Catholic priests more effectively (and politely) than anything I’ve written on this blog. It’s by Dominic Scarborough, and you can read it all here.

Report: The Case for Global Warming Stronger Than Ever - TIME

The fact that climate change evidence that was "very likely" a few years ago has now been declared likelier still by the comprehensive Met Office report suggests that the evidence for human-caused climate change is getting better all the time.  [How so, specifically?]

Climate Accepters Down But Still Big Majority | "Smart" Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

“If the natural scientists are right that the Earth’s temperatures will continue to rise and 2008 was an aberration,” Krosnick said, “as soon as those folks put their finger out the window and realize that 2010, 2011 are back on that track, they will flip back to the other side.”

[Change]: Former D.C. hospital crowded with homeless families - washingtonpost.com

Department of Human Services officials, who manage the shelter, attributed the crowding to record unemployment, now 12 percent in the District; a sharp rise in evictions; and record low temperatures and snowfall. The city has issued 99 hypothermia alerts thus far in the Nov. 1 to March 31 hypothermia season, compared with 92 during the season last year. Alerts are issued when the temperature and wind chill dip below freezing.

Violent backlash on against climate scientists

Until recently, nearly all criticism of the IPCC had been about its underestimations of the risks of climate change and inability to keep up with the latest science.