[Are hurricanes climate, while a lack of hurricanes is weather?] | CEJournal

[Curry] So that’s where we’re at. We still have this observation of an increasing percent of category 4 and 5 hurricanes. But what [can] we attribute that to? Natural variability? Or climate change? Probably some combination of both. But natural variability could very well be playing the dominant role . . . We just don’t have enough data to sort it out.

Climate Resistance » What Happens When the Think-Tank is Empty of Thought?

Attempts to read instructions from objective, material reality quickly turn out to owe a great deal to what happens in the human world. The attempt to form political agendas from what appears to be the state of the natural, material world — peak oil, climate change, population growth, biodiversity, and so on — comes after the messy, anxiety, aimlessness and sense of crisis have been projected onto it. It’s as though what’s out there is easier to confront than that same mess, aimless, crisis and anxiety. In today’s silly debate about resources, too much exists prior to any sensible data about how to make the best use of them, occluding a clear view of our situation. The ‘thinkers’ that populate ‘think’ tanks and political organisations, having no positive programme to speak of, cannot respond to theoretical risks proportionately. Nervousness about change in the material world reflect nervousness about politics itself, so any notion of change amplifies, to become the next Soviet Union, the next Nazi Party, or the next great flood. It follows that vapid politicians with hollow agendas would make a virtue of scarcity.

Driver hopes to combine environmentalism, NASCAR - From the Marbles - NASCAR  - Yahoo! Sports

ARCA driver Leilani Munter, pictured above left with the Atlanta Falcons' Ovie Mughelli and former NFL'er Mike Alstott at the Gulf Coast, is hard at work trying to bring attention to environmentalism. It's a tough road -- NASCAR, with its vehicles driving hundreds of miles in a circle, is the lazy thinker's whipping boy for anti-environmentalism -- but Munter is doing her part to open a few eyes, as a current CNN profile of her efforts reveals.

ROI: Ten Ways to Save Money by Going Green - WSJ.com

(Meanwhile, the deniers cling to their peculiar upside-down logic: "You can't prove for certain that my house is going to catch fire, so fire codes are a total waste of time, and there is no point buying an extinguisher.")