Michael Kieschnick: What Next After the Impending Collapse of Climate Change Legislation?

It is a tragic truth that here is no constructive environmental legislation that can pass in the current context. Republican and special interest obstructionism have been brilliantly successful in stopping progress at utterly no political cost.

EIA Says Climate Bill Cuts GDP $452 Billion By 2035 - BusinessWeek

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Proposed Senate legislation to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, refineries and factories would cut U.S. gross domestic product by $452 billion, or 0.2 percent, between 2013 and 2035, the Energy Information Administration said today.

Alaskan glacier detaches itself from seafloor, goes rogue - CSMonitor.com

The Columbia Glacier had been continuously calving so that ice was always flowing down toward the sea, creating icebergs roughly every hour.
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Scientists have no idea how to put the different types of calving into a sea level rise model, O'Neel told OurAmazingPlanet.

North reports the Press Complaints Commission to the Press Complaints Commission – Telegraph Blogs

I’d say North’s case is watertight. What the PCC did was force the Sunday Times to apologise for running a true story and then force it correct it with an untrue one. At the very least the PCC ought to force the Sunday Times to apologise for its apology.

Shouldn't We Be Worried About Global Cooling? - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Nobody can dispute that there has been some global cooling in this last decade. Even though the land temperature charts aren't reliable, because the number weather stations keeps changing and the stations are all at major airports or in parking lots. If the IPCC had their way I'm sure they would measure the entire earth's temperature from one weather station at LAX, just like they measure the entire planet's CO2 level from one station on top of a volcano in Hawaii.