The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert slams President Obama for fiddling with fossil fuels while the planet burns | ThinkProgress

Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most thoughtful climate [fraud] journalists, whose terrific 2006 book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, famously ends, “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”

And we’re still doing it — but now even faster than before and with a progressive President!

May 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

The SST anomalies of the East Pacific Ocean, or approximately 33% of the surface area of the global oceans, have risen very little since 1982 based on the linear trend. And between upward shifts, the SST anomalies for the rest of the world (67% of the global ocean surface area) remain relatively flat. Anthropogenic forcings are said to be responsible for most of the rise in global surface temperatures over this period, but the SST anomaly graphs of those two areas prompt a two-part question: Since 1982, what anthropogenic global warming processes would overlook the sea surface temperatures of 33% of the global oceans and have an impact on the other 67% but only in response to the significant El Niño events of 1986/87/88, 1997/98 and 2009/10?

Chris Mooney | Will Republicans Attack Climate Preparedness Even at the Cost of National Security?

But honestly, if climate change is a potential threat to our homeland security, do Republicans really want to prevent the department of Homeland Security from assessing that risk?

Wouldn't it be prudent to also spend a few hundred billion dollars to assess the risk of atmospheric argon?