A social movement to fight climate change? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

What environmentalists need, Roberts says, is the sort of social movement that organized labor once wielded, and that feminism and civil rights created.

But those examples seem to underscore how unlikely such a movement actually is. What better pay and safer workplaces and equal rights all have in common is that you are asking people to organize and sacrifice to make their lives better now. With climate change, you are asking them to organize and sacrifice to prevent projected future increases in global temperature. That’s, well, a more intellectualized, top-down sort of concern that’s driven by pronouncements from scientific elites, so it makes some sense that it would lead to an elite-driven strategy.

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Is nature doing what the climate models predict? - latimes.com

A panel of National Research Council scientists examined weather data from the past century to see if nature is so far behaving accordingly. Their findings: yes and no.

German Weather Service Publishes A “Spot The Errors” Diagram

Not surprisingly, the chart has the typical catastrophic hockey stick shape. Peter Heller at Science Skeptical here closely examined the chart and found a number of deceptive irregularities that all serve to dramatize the future. As a result he dubbed it: a spot-the-errors diagram.

Can you spot the errors? Peter Heller has.