Monday, December 20, 2010

Climate Common Sense: Ministry of Truth - Global Warming Causes Harsh Winters
The Irish Times reports that the current harsh winter may "paradoxically" be the result of Global Warming. This of course follows the new theory that cold is caused by warming and therefore by CO2 . The old theory that CO2 causes warming is still true and if you can understand all this you are probably barking mad. Maybe this is all an Irish joke!
Litigation Follows Extreme Weather Caused by Climate Change | The UpTake
Five days after the worst winter snowstorm to hit the Twin Cities in 19 years — and the week after the Cancun Climate Summit — The UpTake interviewed University of Minnesota Environmental Law Professor Hari Osofsky about a new wave of litigation prompted by extreme weather and climate change, and what kinds of lawsuits might be filed here in the Midwest, and nationwide, in response to environmental pollution and global climate change.

Our coverage of global climate change, and the extreme weather that Minnesota has experienced in recent months, is ongoing. Tomorrow we’ll post an interview with a meteorologist who explains how warmer temperatures (even during winter months) may mean more moisture in the air, and thus snow.
Climate change [scam] key element of Maldives foreign policy | Minivan News
“Therefore, it is hardly surprising that President Nasheed has been trying to highlight the issue at all global fora. Most recently, while speaking to students in Oxford University, he urged them not to work for oil and coal companies which were responsible for major carbon emissions into the environment. He also pointed out that these companies were also funding campaigns to deny the existence of climate change. He pleaded with the students to instead join those companies engaged in the area of alternative energy sources and green technologies.

“However, his campaign on climate change has come to be mired in some controversy after a UK media report, citing documents leaked by Wikileaks, suggested that Maldives had pushed for US $50 million assistance from the US government in exchange for unequivocally backing the Copenhagen Accord.”

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