Mike Sandler, Huffington Post: Climate Deniers are Polluting the Blogosphere

Humans have put too many heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, and now the Earth is running a fever. But there's also an increasingly toxic atmosphere in the blogosphere, where climate deniers strategically confuse the issue, delay meaningful government action, and harass scientists and authors.

Mike Sandler

He has a degree in Political Economy from UC Berkeley, and is a candidate for a Master's degree in Urban Planning at UCLA.

CPRS delay causes a gulf of uncertainty

It is also a bad day for the global community looking to Australia to be helpful in rebuilding trust and momentum in climate action.

ABC The Drum - Immigration overtaking climate change in US politics

...in the US, climate change has repeatedly been shunted to the back of the political queue. First there was health care reform, now Congress is grappling with financial regulatory reform and then it'll possibly have immigration reform to deal with.

And the political and public will to tackle climate change legislation could be waning. A Gallup poll last month shows Americans are less worried about environmental issues than at any time in the past 20 years. As for global warming specifically, only 28 per cent of Americans now worry "a great deal" about it.