US Chamber of Commerce Voted Most Damaging to Endangered Species | InjuryBoard Cherry Hill

The vast majority of Americans have no idea who this seemingly all-American lobby actually is, or what damage they are doing to our country and our future. If we don’t all want to be sent the way of the dodo, it's time we paid attention.

Chris Mooney | Why Did Climate Progress Stall? It's Called Conservative Ideological Activation

Now, it would be one thing if we had a media that never printed false claims about climate change or ran phony "balanced" stories about it—and things would also be different if we had a president who had decided to take on the fight nonetheless, or an organized environmental movement that matched the Tea Party in ideological intensity or singleness of purpose. But we don’t have these things. What we do have, though, is a conservative movement that's full of passionate intensity on global warming.

Why even bother consulting the scientists at all? : Pharyngula

When reality conflicts with your delusions, what do you do? Rethink your delusions, or try to edit the facts?

Twitter / @BBCRBlack

Nice phrase from Prof Tony McMichael - climate change is part of 'planetary overload syndrome'