Climate Conversation Group » Man-made global warming a science built on sand

At the moment the fight against our ETS is based on poor climate records, economics, the harm to farming and perhaps a sense of equity, and the fight for our ETS is based more on the perceptions of our trading partners than the (false) science directly. But as soon as we can we should shift camp nearer the enemy’s castle of fraudulent science. Set our siege machines hurling missiles against the very gates. Demolish those pretentious portals.

This cannot fail. The truth always wins. What fun.

Egypt expects Mediterranean Sea level to flood...

“This is really serious,” Mohamed Eissa, a leading Egyptian environmentalist, told IRIN. “The government must do something to save the Delta from totally sinking.”

Eissa and other environmentalists say it will take Egypt 15-25 years to feel the full impact of climate change.
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“There must be proper political dialogue on means of evading the crisis,” said Mustafa Kamal Tolba, another leading Egyptian environmentalist, adding that Egypt could evade the effects of climate change on the Delta if it earmarked 5 percent of its budget for finding measures to protect its coasts. “If we don’t act now, we can only blame ourselves.”

New York ain't seen nothing yet: Future will bring flooding, hurricanes and violent weather swings

Since the snowstorms of December, Sen. Chuck Schumer's office estimates that New York has spent more than $75 million in response to extreme weather conditions. Endless rain and snow aren't quite so funny when it's converted into dollars and cents.

Make no mistake: Weather is not climate, and we're not feeling the direct results of climate change in these recent weather phenomena. But the truth is that scientists, at least those of us here at Columbia's Earth Institute, predict more such events and with greater frequency as the planet continues to heat up.
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Questioning the science of climate change is like questioning the science of gravity. The cause and effect is clear.
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Our local governments have already started to adapt to the future that is almost certainly coming. A new waterfront power station on the East River has been rebuilt to withstand a 4-foot sea-level rise. When pumps were replaced at a water treatment facility in Rockaway recently, they were put 17 feet higher, at a cost of $13 million.
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Cohen is executive director and chief operating officer of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.