January, 2011:  Another terrific ABC News story — on the role global warming is playing in extreme winter weather | ThinkProgress

ABC news contacted 10 climate scientists to ask their take, if the extreme winter like the one we’re having is the way of the future. The consensus: global warming is playing a role by shifting weather patterns in unpredictable ways. Many say the forecast for the future calls for record-breaking precipitation and extreme temperatures year-round — and that means winter with more snow.

So global warming causes toothache in bears… | JunkScience Sidebar

… at least we assume that to be the case since global warming was blamed as the root cause of the recent fatal polar bear attack in the Svalbard Archipelago. Here’s a more complete explanation from the AFP

A watershed moment for Obama on climate change - The Washington Post

Ain’t eBay grand? For $10 you can buy a sack of 50 assorted Obama ’08 buttons, and that’s what I’ve been doing. If you look closely, you might see them this weekend on the lapels of some of the global warming protesters holding a sit-in outside the White House.

Already, more than a thousand people have signed up to be arrested over two weeks beginning Aug. 20 — the biggest display of civil disobedience in the environmental movement in decades and one of the largest nonviolent direct actions since the World Trade Organization demonstrations in Seattle back before Sept. 11. (Among the first 500 to sign up, the biggest cohort was born in the Truman administration, followed closely by FDR babies and Eisenhower kids. These seniors contradict the stereotype of greedy geezers who care only about their own future.)

A Climate of Ignorance | Climate Nonconformist

Already, there’s been a commenter who may or may not want to burn me.

“Yet he accuses those of us that advocate the discovery of and investment in new energy sources to wanting to return humanity to medieval “technologically” and, apparently, we “have already succeeded in doing so in an intellectual sense”. I wish it was true, I could nominate several candidates for ritual burning, but we are more civilised these days.” – Dante (not the poet)