Romney: ‘Climate Change Is Occurring’ « The Washington Independent

In “No Apology,” Mitt Romney sets himself up in the shrinking “climate change is happening but we don’t need a carbon tax” camp.

I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor.

E-Mails Show Scientists Planning Push-Back Against 'McCarthyite' Attacks on Climate [Junk] Science - NYTimes.com

"We need to develop a relentless rain of science and scientific dialog on the incredible, destructive demagoguery that has invaded the airwaves, the news media and the public forum and has prevented a rational discussion about political solutions to human perturbations on the environment," wrote Paul Falkowski, a professor at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.

[But he's not even a climatologist!]: Paul G. Falkowski

The Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology (EBME) Laboratory at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is an interdisciplinary, multi-user research facility designed to explore the application of biophysical and molecular biological techniques to a wide number of environmental processes in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The EBME program bridges physical and biological sciences in the context of understanding how biological systems function and evolve in the environment.

Obama talks jobs, energy in VA - First Read - msnbc.com

[Obama] ...almost all the goods that are required to make homes more energy efficient are actually produced right here in the United States of America  [where's the part about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced fiery floods?]