News Desk: Hurricane Irene and Global Warming: A Glimpse of the Future? : The New Yorker

Are more events like Irene what you would expect in a warming world? Here the answer is a straightforward “yes.”

Was The IPCC Renewables Report Hijacked By Its Press Release? | The Energy Collective

Gerbils running on treadmills powering generators could be used supply all the world’s electricity, if all other sources of power were outlawed, and the world didn’t care how much electricity was generated or what it would cost…

Throwing a scenario like this into a review with 163 more realistic scenarios to give policy makers an idea what the extreme end of renewables deployment in a world without other options would look like is one thing, but this press release is a blunder for the IPCC.

Greenpeace hijacked this press release. Why did the IPCC allow it?

Can Clearer Language Clear Up Climate Disputes? - NYTimes.com

[Revkin] And that made it impossible for many Republicans, even if they had reasonable scientific education, to kind of take ownership of this concept of global warming because it was already sort of framed as a liberal or Democratic idea.

I suspect that a great many skeptical Republicans have more science education than Revkin.