Climate change drops off 'hot topic' list - opinion - 15 December 2011 - New Scientist

This year's British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey comes complete with gloomy headlines on public opinion about climate change. Compared with surveys in 1993 and 2000, concern about the seriousness of environmental threats has decreased, and the number of people saying they were willing to pay more for environmentally friendly services has dropped significantly.

...But how plausible was it that the public would stay that concerned for the half century or more that it will take to really get to grips with climate change? Unlike more immediate threats, climate change will not have a significant effect on the majority of the UK population for some time.

Himalayan Glaciers 'Safe From Warming'

In the first comprehensive study of a part of what is called High Asia, scientists found that 96 percent of the water that flows down the mountains of Nepal into nine local river basins comes from snow and rain, and only 4 percent from summer glacier melt. Of that 4 percent, says Armstrong, the lead author, only a minuscule proportion comes from the melting away of the end points of the glaciers due to global warming.

The Continuing Collapse of the Climate Campaign | Power Line

While many environmentalists and their toadies in the media are trying to paint the latest UN climate meeting in Durban as a significant breakthrough, Nature magazine, which usually follows the talking points of climate orthodoxy slavishly, is having nothing of it.  In this week’s editorial, ‘The Mask Slips,” Nature says “It takes a certain kind of optimism — or an outbreak of collective Stockholm syndrome — to see the Durban outcome as a significant breakthrough on global warming, as many are claiming.”

Capitol Alert: Arnold Schwarzenegger 'proud' of Jerry Brown on environment

Schwarzenegger said he was "proud" of Brown, and Brown's press secretary, Gil Duran, said on Twitter while Schwarzenegger was speaking, "If every Republican was as smart as @Schwarzenegger on the subject of climate change, the world would be a much better place."