Interview - Clive Hamilton: 'solving climate change is out of the question' - The Ecologist

Author Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers

The Climate Change Debates -- Kitcher, 10.1126/science.1189312 -- Science

Having expanded far beyond atmospheric science, the contentious debate over the prospects of disruptive changes in Earth's climate now also encompasses important political, economic, and social issues. The eight books considered in Kitcher's essay review discuss some of the causes and consequences of the present controversy and how we might best move forward from it. The still-raging clashes on the reality of anthropogenic climate change and the actions we should take to mitigate its effects also raise fundamental questions about how science should work in democratic societies.

World warms, public cools to climate action | Reuters

"It's a very consistent ongoing warming trend," said Tom Karl, director of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Centre.
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Scientists say many people wrongly judge global warming by temperatures at home. Karl said he would be rich "if I had a nickel for every time someone asked me: 'global warming? We had record snows and cold temperatures'."

Harsh winter to trim Ukraine wheat harvest | 27 May 2010 | www.commodityonline.com

KIEV (Commodity Online) : Prolonged winter with extreme cold conditions are likely to trim Ukraine’s wheat harvest this year.

According to country’s deputy Prime Minister Viktor Slauta, Ukraine’s wheat production may be 15% lower than in 2009".