Bill McKibben avoids the fetal position | Grist

Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened...James Hansen's paper about the 350 parts per million (of atmospheric carbon dioxide) as the cutoff for serious climate change is probably the most important scientific paper of the millennia to date
...I wrote the first book about climate change for a general audience, and at the time that I wrote it, most of the science that there was fit on top of my desk, you know? Now you could fill an airplane hangar with that science, though the basic conclusions remain alarmingly the same.... You write that "There's no such thing as nature anymore -- that other world that isn't business and art and breakfast is now not another world, and there is nothing except us alone." ... It is the biggest crisis that human beings have ever faced,
...The thing that makes me bleak sometimes is just how quickly the science grows darker. We haven't caught any breaks in the last 20 years. Everything that we've worried about has come in on the upper end of the projected range or off the charts altogether, whether it's the melt of the Arctic, or acidification of oceans, or the increase in drought and flood.

mysask.com - Climatologist blames hotter nights for destructive storms

OTTAWA - The freak windstorm that toppled the main stage at the Ottawa Bluesfest may be a sign of weather to come, warns a top climatologist.

Provincial investigators combed the gnarled wreckage at the grounds of the festival on Monday for clues to explain how a violent summer gale destroyed the stage during a Cheap Trick concert the night before.

But one of Canada's foremost weather experts has his own theory: climate change.

Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips said it's not the days that are getting hotter — it's the nights.

Barnaby Joyce heckled by climate protesters | Green Left Weekly

more than half the crowd noisily protested against Joyce.

They included Socialist Alliance activists, several Greens members and people from various trade unions. The placards of Greens, Socialist Alliance and unionists visually dominated the scene.