Climate change: how to play our hand? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It can still be problematic to blame a specific individual extreme weather event on climate change, because there have always been extremes of weather around the world. However, if the likelihood of a particular extreme weather event has changed it is possible to say something. I and colleagues from Oxford University showed, in a paper we published in Nature, that the probability of the hot European temperatures in 2003 had very likely doubled as a result of human influence. While still relatively rare, the odds of such extreme events are rapidly shortening and could become considered the norm by the middle of this century.
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• Peter Stott is head of climate monitoring and attribution at the Met Office

Greenpeace needs ‘to bring in more than $700,000 a day just to keep the lights on’ | NewsReal Blog

Now: is it possible that Greenpeace is “too big not to fail.”

When you read that an organization has “an annual budget of $270-million,” that sounds pretty powerful and impervious.

Ed Driscoll » Putting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube

But even beyond dam busting, there really does seem to no shortage of areas where self-styled “progressives” wish to eliminate the progress their grandfathers fought for — and the benefits that Americans derive from them daily. Or as a blog post from 2005 at Gates of Vienna put it succinctly in their headline, after spotting a booth with this name on it at a vegetarian-themed festival, “Visualize Industrial Collapse.” (Presumably they’d consider what seems at times to be the president’s continuing efforts in that department to not go anywhere near far enough!)

At Ricochet, James Lileks spots one enviro-religious group wanting to have “A Weekend Without Oil” on the weekend of August 21. Naturally, James has more than a little sport with their efforts to run the clock backwards: