NC Media Watch: President Bill Clinton, please tell me you have got to be kidding?

He said the gulf region had been hit by "everything but a plague of locusts" and said climate change had made events like hurricanes and flooding more frequent and deadly.

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So, President Clinton, where did you get the idea that hurricanes were more frequent and deadly? Did you just make it up like Al Gore does, or did you call Al and get his fake numbers?

Collapsing Ice Sheet? | Real Science

What they apparently don’t realize is that Antarctica is 3,000 miles long, and only three miles high. Scaled down, the ice sheet is as flat and thin and horizontal as a piece of paper sitting on a desk.

It can’t “collapse.” That idea comes from people with an active imagination and an extremely poor understanding of engineering. It would take thousands of years for a piece of ice to move from the interior of Antarctica to the coast, and during that time, the ice is being replenished in the interior.

Letters: George Monbiot's despairing requiem for the planet | Environment | The Guardian

Most people have third, fourth or fifth cousins who are climate victims, or will be soon.
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Joe Ravetz
Centre for Urban Regional Ecology, Manchester University

China's great green wall grows in climate fight | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The government is increasingly using the Great Green Wall as a propaganda tool to trumpet its efforts combating climate change. Every spring, about three million Communist Party members, civil servants and model workers head to the countryside to plant trees in a massive propaganda event.