Carbon neutral public sector: a myth B.C. cannot afford

On June 30, the B.C. government announced it had become “carbon neutral.” Do you know what this means?

This is not journalism, Wendy Carlisle « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

This kind of one-sided reporting is merely a rubber stamp of government press releases or worse, rubber stamping something lower: a PR activist’s outrageous deception.

Philadelphia July Temperatures : Two Degrees Cooler Than 1793 And 1838 | Real Science

The years 1793 1838 1791 1798 1822 1825 1828 and 1830 all had hotter July’s than 2011 so far. 1793 and 1838 both averaged 81F.

[Revkin channels Morano] - Revkin.net

Amazing inflammatory @Guardian “green helmet” spin on a German proposal for the UN Security Council to produce a report on security implications of climate change. The request is fine, but only if the full suite of parallel drivers of vulnerability is considered.

In regions most vulnerable to climate hazards and sea-level rise there are a host of factors contributing to vulnerability. In the Maldives, population has doubled in 20 years, while sea level is set to rise for a long time to come. How much of any emigration flow is to be blamed on warming?

As for sea-level refugees, I don’t see the people of Springdale, Ark., home to a fast-growing population of Marshall Islanders, calling for green helmets.

Peri-Saharan Africa has a millenniums-long history of mega-drought and population is projected to double by 2050. Is any disruption from the next drought a “climate change” issue or a simple issue of deepening vulnerability to any climate shock - “natural” or greenhouse-driven?