One scientist vs 52 climate change sceptics | COSMOS magazine

In an Insight special recorded just weeks before his unexpected death, Steve Schneider faces a tough audience of 52 climate sceptics and fence-sitters in an attempt to convince them that society needs to take urgent action against climate change.
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The sceptics pose some tough questions, and some of the comments are even more harsh – one sceptic claims that man-made climate change is simply being used to build hysteria in order to ensure grant money for climate scientists.

 ASEM climate-change forum attracts 150 to Ha Long City

The two-day ASEM forum, organised by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), has attracted more than 150 delegates from Australia, Denmark, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and host Viet Nam.

German Wind Capacity Revisited: High Cost versus Least Cost — MasterResource

My post last week evaluated the claim that wind generation can save money for power pool customers. It was found that the supposed savings could be realized only if the elephant in the room – the above-market feed-in tariff – was ignored. In other words, consumer payments for electricity from a power pool was half of the story; the real price had to include the consumer-qua-taxpayer funding of the feed-in-tariff (FIT).

L.A. Names Environmental Science School After Al Gore, Builds It on 'Toxic Soil'

Oh, and also, "an oil well operates across the street," but, again, "officials said they've found no associated risks." Except for the risk that students will grow up with a highly-developed sense of irony!

We live in an era of unusual climate stability!

That is what I have been pointing out for some years (though I was referring mainly to the 20th century) -- so it is interesting to see the same conclusion in reference to a much longer period in the chart below of Greenie origin. They are not content with the facts, though, so have tacked a crazy extrapolation onto the end of it. In terms of the geological time period that the chart covers, a severe downswing would be much more logical