Monsoons & Megadroughts | The Resilient Earth

We find ourselves in a familiar situation, with climate science coming down firmly on both sides of the question. Some scientists say more drought, others say more precipitation—competing theories abound, all incorrect or untested. There is strong evidence that pre-climate change times saw multi-decade periods of persistent El Niño and La Niña conditions. You can bet if such conditions arose today that they would be loudly proclaimed a result of global warming, even though such events are perfectly normal. My future climate prediction is for possibly wet weather except in areas of drought—the way things have been since the beginning of the Holocene. Truly, there is nothing new under the Sun.

Clash of the Titans: Endangered Tortoises vs. Solar Power Developers

Aside from the entertainment value of observing environmentalists being hoisted with their own petard, a more sobering aspect of the solar project in question is that it is part of a larger planned "solar farm" the size of Rhode Island. How's that for a small footprint? And the term "solar farm" deceptively sounds very Earth-friendly, though it doesn't at all represent the fact of thousands of square miles covered by nothing but solar panels.

The image of an actual "solar farm" shown above gives us a better idea of why desert dwellers of any and every species might object to having their neighborhood turned into one. The particular section of the "solar farm" under discussion would have "seven 459-foot metal towers, a natural gas pipeline, water tanks, steam turbine generators, boilers and buildings for administration and maintenance," all "surrounded by 8-foot steel fencing."

WWF: Expect Snowfalls in July! « P Gosselin – NoTricksZone

Warmer and yet snowfalls in the summertime? You gotta be kidding.

[If you scoff at the global warming scam, does it mean that you don't love your kids?]

In his "Odds of Cooking the Grandchildren" Staniford shows us the implications of a PNAS paper that I'd missed:
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Moreover, ask yourself whether you consider a 5% chance of that outcome an acceptable risk. There's an answer - it involves rapid deindustrialization, it would be difficult, politically complex, painful and costly. So it comes down to this very basic question - how much do all of us really love our kids and our grandkids?