Sunday, May 02, 2010

"Climate change deniers are not interested in the science or they would not be deniers."
Nothing could be less religious or more scientific than the empirical evidence [like what, specifically?] supporting the human role in global warming. It is a scientific fact that the science has been settled on this issue. It is not that it is "non-negotiable" as Beauchamp writes. It is simply a fact that within the field of climate science for the last 20 years, no evidence has been published to dispute the fact that humans are causing our Earth to warm. There is no dispute among climate scientists. So why should we dispute it?
Expiration date for climate change commission arriving | North Carolina
RALEIGH — Authorization for the legislative commission set up to look into climate change is scheduled to expire later this year.
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“I’m sort of ambivalent about it,” [Commission member Bob Slocum] said. “As far as the way it is currently set up, I’m happy for it to disband.”

Slocum said he feels that the outcome of the commission’s work was predetermined.

“It really wasn’t a group that was going to try to take an objective look at the science and sort of go from there,” Slocum said. “The majority of people on it were made up of what I call the true believers — people who thought that everything that’s happened was caused by humans and the burning of fossil fuels.”

He said that the debate isn’t over as to the cause of climate change.
AFP: Europe should cut CO2 output by 30%: German minister
"We must have both an ambitious UN climate agreement and the swiftest possible implementation of climate protection in practice," Rottgen said.
'Avatar' Director James Cameron to Discuss Climate Change, Environmental Policy on AFGE Radio Show
Cameron, who recently visited Capitol Hill to discuss the threat of climate change, will share his thoughts on U.S. environmental policy and his role in the climate change debate.

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