Frances Beinecke's Blog [If you breathe air containing trace amounts of CO2, is that like being poisoned with lead?]

The science on lead proved to be right, and no one doubts lead’s dangers today. But EPA acted, rightly, well before every last issue and denial was resolved. Despite the organized effort by deniers to confuse the public, the scientific consensus on the causes and severity of climate change is actually far more robust today than was the case for lead in the 1970s. The EPA was right to act then, and the EPA is right to act now.

The Press Republican - Article: Kimmel: Global-warming lawsuit frivolous, costly

PLATTSBURGH — David Kimmel, challenger for the 114th Assembly District seat, says a state suit against utility companies for causing global warming is frivolous and should be dropped.

He is calling upon his opponent, incumbent Janet Duprey, and other legislators to withdraw their support for the suit.

The Reference Frame: Richard Lindzen v. Hadi Dowlatabadi

An interesting aspect is that Richard Lindzen, the skeptic, and Hadi Dowlatabadi, a consensus scientist, agreed about pretty much everything. The changes of the climate are unspectacular, the Earth has seen much bigger changes of temperature and CO2, 600 ppm of CO2 wouldn't do anything visible, and so on.

Paradoxically, it was the journalist who was the only advocate of AGW panic. For example, he would repeat that there is a "general wisdom" that 350 ppm is a huge problem for the Earth. Where the hell did he hear that it is a "general wisdom"?

Save The Date: [Will Steger Climate Hoax] Summer Institute 2010

A January 2007 Pew Research Center poll found that 77% of Americans thought there was solid evidence that the world was warming. Just two years later only 57% of Americans think that this is the case. This year’s Institute will provide educators with an understanding of why this misinformation persists and the tools to respond to those in doubt, by getting back to the basics of climate science and climate change education methods.

Oldest measurement of Earth's magnetic field reveals battle between sun and Earth for our atmosphere

ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2010) — Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the Earth's magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today, and that this weakness, coupled with a strong wind of energetic particles from the young Sun, likely stripped water from the early Earth's atmosphere.

Architecture + Morality: Designing for the Apocalypse: why many architects love a crisis

As professionals who try to address such needs and wants in all of its variety, architects are very much subject to AGW's affect on buildings, both in the way they are designed and engineered and in the way they respond to government mandates. In fact, architects are very much wedded to AGW, as it justifies their guiding design philosophy and helps structure their firms' core values. Many signature designers, including a few that I personally know, have put global warming at the the center of all that their work aims to be about