Pollution not to blame for rapid ocean cooling, says Phil Jones paper | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Research from UEA finds drop in temperature is too quick to be caused by the build-up of sulphur aerosols from fossil fuels
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Scientists studying a rapid cooling of the oceans around four decades ago have found that the traditional explanation for the phenomenon, which involved pollution in the atmosphere, does not stack up.

The discovery does not cast doubt on the overall science of human-caused climate change.
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The model revealed that the cooling event was far from gradual, as previously believed: the temperature of the surface of oceans in the northern hemisphere dropped by 0.3C in just four years. The model also revealed that the focus of the cooling event was in the northern North Atlantic - from around the latitude of the southern tip of the UK northwards.

The cause of the cooling is not clear, but according to Mark Maslin of the Environment Institute at University College London, one possible culprit is the Great Salinity Anomaly – an unusually large discharge of ice from the Arctic Ocean in 1967 that caused a 10,000 cubic kilometre pool of fresh water to form off the coast of Greenland.

Motion to Stay Makes Strong Case Court Should Overturn EPA Global Warming Rules | OpenMarket.org

The House passed a cap-and-trade bill in June 2009 but in 2010 cap-and-trade died in the Senate. Senators mounted an unsuccessful effort to overturn EPA’s Endangerment Rule but with all 41 Republicans and six Democrats voting for it. “The 111th Congress evidently will adjourn unable to either ratify the current state of affairs or change it, but the 112th may be rather more willing to announce an opinion on behalf of the electorate. A stay would allow for the possibility that Congress finally will state its intentions to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act, or not, so that this Court will not have to speak for it.” ‘Nuff said.

Heather Taylor-Miesle: There Has Never Been a More Important Election to Get Active

Recently, the Wonk Room identified six Senate races and eight House races in which supporters of climate action are pitted against candidates who deny that climate change exists.
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This is where we are right now. We have to pull out our mommy voices and say it's time for everybody to do their homework.