Rewriting Easter Island's history - On Line Opinion - 1/8/2011

At the height of the now cooling debate on global warming, activists sometimes pointed to remote Easter Island as a society that deliberately destroyed its environment...What happened on Easter Island will happen to us all, so why don't we have a carbon tax?

The trouble with this argument is that the above scenario depends heavily on the ideas of Jared Diamond, a professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, and those ideas should properly be seen more as contested speculation, with recent discoveries making them look shaky indeed.

The “Row to the Pole” publicity stunt looks doomed to failure by a sea ice block | Watts Up With That?

Yup, unless those guys in the rowboat have an icebreaker leading the way, or there’s an “instamelt” de-icing ahead of them, they likely aren’t going anywhere near the old North Magnetic Pole circa 1996, much less the actual one.

Looks like “Scotch on the Rocks” for them.

However, like any good publicity stunt, they’ll probably figure out some way to make a success out of it, perhaps declaring that “important though incomplete science has been done”.

Jon Huntsman Brings Instability to Republican... | Gather

Huntsman considers environmental conservation as a conservative issue. Good on him. But attacking people who question the science on climate change is a far left position. Reasonable people on both sides of the argument question the science. One would be stupid not to question after the "Climate Gate" scandal. Taking that position ahead of the Ames Iowa Straw Poll, it could be argued that he's not even a serious candidate.

Pikes Peak Courier View: Colorado

Spring frost is one of the most serious barriers to tree fruit production in our climate. The damage from frost becomes more serious as the blooms get closer to being fully open, especially in apricots. Open blooms will be damaged or killed a temperatures of 28 degrees or lower. Many people will spray the trees with water, which keeps the temperature at a freezing point and will therefore save some blossoms.

Is Colorado Ground Zero for global warming? « Summit County Citizens Voice

*Check out the comments on this story over at the Real Science blog.