Al Gore calls Tea Party agenda 'radical' and 'dangerous' in fundraising email - Spokane Conservative | Examiner.com

According to former Vice President Al Gore, expecting the government to follow the Constitution and live within its means is radical and dangerous. Those who think the government should be responsible with taxpayer dollars, in his view, are extremists.

"Single-minded proponents of a dangerous and extremist agenda are working feverishly to roll back every Democratic gain we've ever made," Gore wrote in a fundraising email sent on behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

RealClimate: Greenland meltdown

there is simply no measure — neither thickness nor areal extent — by which Greenland can be said to have lost 15 % of its ice.

Locked in a Box, With Plants as a Lifeline - NYTimes.com

With every exhalation, he explained, humans release carbon dioxide. Plants absorb the carbon dioxide and use light energy to convert it to food while giving off oxygen as a byproduct. We inhale the oxygen. Life goes on.

This virtual cycle is fundamental to our existence

The Sun's Hidden Power | The Resilient Earth

Yet there are still those who would rather believe that minuscule changes in the level of a trace atmospheric gas controls Earth's climate. This new NASA report is more bad news for the CO2 fanboys, the Sun is even more powerful than previously suspected. And unlike the ill-defined hypothetical feedbacks needed to amplify carbon dioxide's marginal impact, the mechanisms through which UV radiation affect climate are based in real physics and empirical observation. I have said it before—when it comes to climate change, it's the Sun, stupid.