Why the right wing fears climate action (and it’s not because they’re crazy) | Grist

...they're right that effectively fighting climate change will mean serious changes to our economic system -- including regulation for industry and taxes on the rich. Doing it right will mean working right out of the progressive playbook, and doing so not for partisan reasons but for objective scientific ones. All of this is existentially terrifying to people on the right, and why wouldn't it be? Republicans, rich people, and industry aren't opposed to climate action because they're crazy. They're opposed because they're not crazy at all.

Mongolia bids to keep city cool with 'ice shield' experiment | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Geoengineering trial aims to 'store' winter temperatures in a giant block of ice that will cool and water Ulan Bator in summer

Analysis: Harsh Dakota winters bring new risk to oil markets | Reuters

The National Weather Service has predicted another unusually harsh winter this year

Michael Levi: Energy, Security, and Climate » Has Government Spending on Energy Research Been A Waste?

it doesn’t take much for $172 billion of spending on energy innovation to pay off.

Dr. Paul Epstein, Public Health Expert, Dies at 67 - NYTimes.com

In an interview with The New York Times in 1998 about that year’s outbreak of cholera and malaria in South America in the wake of El Niño flooding, and simultaneous outbreaks of cholera, malaria and Rift Valley fever in Africa after heavy rains and flooding, Dr. Epstein made the case for linkage.

“If extreme weather events are part of a changing climate,” he said, “we’ve seen lots of evidence of the profound health effects associated with climate change this year.”

Dr. Paul Epstein on the Trust Cost of Coal - YouTube

In February 2011, Greenpeace was lucky enough to host a press conference on board the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise to release a study he directed entitled, "Full Cost Accounting for the Full Lifecycle of Coal." Dr. Epstein's work was invaluable to the understanding of climate change and he will be missed.