A Journolist for climate change? | Washington Examiner

A quick search revealed a new item for Tom’s list - the upper elevations of Hawaii, where it’s “getting hotter here faster than anywhere else in the world.”
...changes in climate have been poorly reported for more than a century. The catch is that it’s alternated between warming and cooling four times, and whether the trend is warming or cooling, the stories over the last hundred years use very similar verbiage. It’s always a crisis. Soon it will be irreversible. The end is near! You would almost think there was a Journolist for climate change.
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As we have learned from the “Climategate” scandal and the less reported subsequent scandal at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, it’s also the scientists, who have strategized behind the scenes to shut out opposing views and to hide and manipulate data.

These are desperate days for global warming advocates, and they should be. The two groups we rely on the most to be skeptical and detail-oriented, scientists and reporters, have continued to badly fail us.

Clarifications re Climate Skeptics and Deniers

By any standard of logic, the burden of proof falls upon those dissenting from the current standard model  [So unless we can prove to you that CO2 isn't going to kill us all, scamsters get our $45 trillion?]

John Kerry’s Enviro-Vessel With 10,000-Liter Fuel Tank « P Gosselin – NoTricksZone

I wasn’t able to get further specific information on Kerry’s yacht, but looking at other typical 76-foot yachts on the market, we find that they are far from spartan. Take this 76-foot Monte Fino for only $2,450,000 - a real bargain when compared to Kerry’s $7 million cruiser. The Monte Fino includes a 10,000 liter diesel fuel tank, 1500 hp twin engines and is filled with high-tech electronic doo-dads.

God knows what Kerry got for his $7 million.

Obamas take 4 vacations in 1 month.

While many Americans are cutting back on their vacation plans or eliminating them altogether, Barack Obama is setting an aspirational example for all of us. Sure, times are tough, but perhaps we can enjoy a life of leisure vicariously through our betters.

Gwynne Dyer: We are passing the point of no return on climate change | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

...we are going to blow right through the point of no return.

Plus two degrees C is the point of no return [How was this calculated?]   (and every government has recognized it as such) because after that the additional warmth triggers natural processes that speed the warming. The permafrost melts and emits enormous amounts of greenhouse gases. The warming oceans lose their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. After that, just cutting human emissions won’t stop the warming. Runaway.

Dem leader: No ‘secret plan’ to move big items in lame-duck session - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the assistant to the Speaker who also heads up House Democrats’ campaign committee, said Democrats aren’t interested in pushing through major bills during the period between the elections and when new lawmakers are sworn into office in early January.

“[N]o one should think there’s some secret plan for after the election on big issues,” Van Hollen said during an appearance on MSNBC. “There’s no secret or overt plan to do something like that.”