Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics | FP Comment | Financial Post

The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming sceptics. Not by virtue of their legal reasoning – the global warming case they decided turned on a technical legal issue — but in their surprising commentary. Global warming is by no means a settled issue, they made clear, suggesting it would be foolhardy to assume it was.

“The court, we caution, endorses no particular view of the complicated issues related to carbon-dioxide emissions and climate change,” reads the 8-0 decision, delivered by the court’s acclaimed liberal, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Somewhat in the same vein, Justice Ginsburg notes carbon dioxide is necessary and ubiquitous, and thus shouldn’t be the target of indiscriminate attacks. “After all, we each emit carbon dioxide merely by breathing,” she notes, repeating a point that Dyson couldn’t have said better himself.

To see exactly what the Supreme Court said in its remarkable American Electric Power v. Connecticut decision, click here.

GE’s Ironic New Slogan for Its Favorite Greenhouse Gas: “Natural Gas. It’s Hot Stuff.” | ThinkProgress

“running a handheld electric hairdryer on US grid electricity delivers a planet-warming punch comparable to [the heat given off by] two Boeing 747s operating at full takeoff power for the same time period.”

Why It Is OK To Lie About Global Warming Evidence | Real Science

Remember, any period of time where trends go in the direction you expect is evidence for AGW. Even if the evidence is a single hot afternoon in Los Angeles in the middle of a record cold summer.

We all know that during the last decade of this century, sea level will drown everyone who hasn’t already died from heat prostration.

UNC Professor : Sea Level To Rise 330 Feet By 2050 | Real Science

Look for sea level to rise about 50mm (two inches) per week for the next forty years.