Book Launch: Climate Change for Football Fans by James Atkins on LinkedIn Events

...They agree to spend the season together; the Prof goes to all the Burnley games and Joe listens to the Prof natter on about climate change policy. It is a vehicle for discussing climate policy in an entertaining and digestible way. The book is both green and very politically incorrect. James Atkins is Chairman of Vertis Environmental Finance, an emissions trading firm based in Budapest.

[Who needs thermometers (or treemometers) when you've got fossilized kangaroo bones?]: Kangaroo evolution maps climate change | Murdoch University

The evolution of kangaroos has given a clear picture of Australia’s changing climate, according to a new study.

Murdoch University’s Dr Natalie Warburton and Dr Gavin Prideaux from Flinders University have analysed changes to the kangaroo skeleton over time which reflect Australia’s changing environment and climate.

Dr Warburton said in this way kangaroos represent a sort of barometer for climate change.

The Temperature Decline That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Similarly, the NOAA report laments: “People have spent thousands of years building society for one climate and now a new one is being created—one that’s warmer and more extreme.” The implication is that we can somehow freeze-dry the climate we’ve got to last forever, which is absurd. Sea levels have risen 400 feet in the past 15,000 years, causing all kinds of inconvenience for humanity in the process‚—and all quite naturally. As the interglacial continues, sea levels will rise and temperatures will increase‚—until the interglacial reaches its peak, at which point the planet will again move toward glacial conditions. To think that we can somehow stop this process is insane.

Fallout Begins After Senate's Failure to Act on Energy, Oil Spill - NYTimes.com

Still, Morano thinks the oil spill-response legislation was an "inside Washington thing" and a "very minor issue for the voters."

"I don't think there is going to be a big price to pay," for not passing legislation before the recess, Morano said. "If they had passed something, if would have been based on cheap politics at its best."