[Blog comments: Melting "climate deniers" ice sculpture event panned]

I thought it was terribly unconvincing, myself: 1) the tiny turnout 2) the silly ice sculpture vs kids having fun in an igloo 3) the kid going on about global warming as it were a jobs program. I bet the word "lame" crossed ten million lips with that report.

Do you think really Inhofe's guys are trembling with rage? I think they're rolling on the floor laughing.

If these are the guys giving the scientifc community PR advice, no thanks. I'll take the A team please.
...
The tiny turnout is a dead giveaway that these people are amateurs, unskilled ones at that.

Don't hold a media event on the mall if there are fewer of you than there are in a typical tour group ...

A Great Climate Scientist Passes On - Ecocentric - TIME.com

In an email Schneider sent me just last week, responding to a climate scientist who's been accusing her colleagues of downplaying uncertainty in IPCC projections, he wrote:

"So what is her point? That there are big uncertainties?? Now that is hardly original or news! But can she or anyone rule out the possibility of highly consequential negative climate impacts at more than coin flip odds--no way. So this is a risk management problem about risks with planetary life support system--what I called Laboratory Earth in book of same title in 1997."

Back in the early 1990s, a couple of years after he'd helped us with our Planet of the Year conference, he was in TIME's face, saying we were derelict in not writing climate every week. There wasn't that much climate news to write then—but now there's plenty. It's been our great good luck that Steve Schneider has been around to help keep that coverage honest for two decades now. It will be a little tougher—and a lot less entertaining—from now on.

Argentine Polar Cold « Musings from the Chiefio

And also “Do I know something the general public doesn’t?”. So to the extent folks have embraced a ‘Global Warming” driven investment thesis and I can buy into LNG tankers and more Nat Gas demand, well, I win.