The IPCC Pulls Back from the Media - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Blogs, skeptics and overworked members of the media are now part of the process. Maybe in another quieter branch of science—entymology?—it would be possible to stay in the ivory tower and never leave. But even if the Internet hadn't completely changed the nature of the media, climate change is far too important to the future of mankind to be left solely to the experts. What the IPCC researchers will find and what they'll report will be immensely important to each and every one of us, our children, our children's children and so on. We all need to be part of this discussion, and far from freezing out the skeptics, going into a huddle will only embolden them, as Revkin points out...And putting out a document that outlines the "40 Words You Can't Say to a Climate Reporter" really doesn't help matters.

Activists block road to Maine wind power site - Yahoo! News

Maine Earth First says projects like TransCanada's destroy mountaintops and don't offset fossil fuel use.

Corbell attacks Lib climate 'sceptics' - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

THE ACT Government has attacked the Opposition over its stance on the environment, accusing Liberal leader Zed Seselja of bowing to climate change sceptics within the party.

Uh Oh… Does the plummetting ENSO Index portend a cold winter? « Digital Diatribes

First, the index tracks on a two-month average basis. Thus, going from an April/May value of 0.539 to a May/June value of -0.412 (a drop of 0.951) must imply a very dramatic cooling in June. It’s one thing to see that kind of number when the previous one was -0.2, it’s quite another to see it after an El Nino-esque reading in the prior period.

So, I was curious to see how this compared to previous drops in the index.

I was both surprised, and not surprised, to see that this drop in the largest single month-to-month negative change in the index since the beginning of the readings in 1950.