Saturday, December 10, 2011

New Gingrich book on climate change likely coming after the election - latimes.com

The author of a chapter on climate change is Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech whose work focuses on assessing the impact of climate change and communicating it to broader audiences, including those traditionally dubious of global warming, like Christian colleges.

Pachuari: Obama should unilaterally determine U.S. climate policy | JunkScience.com

Pachuari also whined that “nobody over here [at COP 17] is paying any attention to science.”

Standoff in Durban on Emissions Cuts - WSJ.com

"A lot of people are freaked out, they are petrified at what's happening—and what's not happening—here," said Adam Greenberg, a 23-year-old recent graduate of Global College of Long Island University.

The climate-change con artists

If we force ourselves to use the most expensive energies in the world – currently solar and wind – and succeed in actually lowering the level of atmospheric CO2, economic devastation and mass starvation awaits. As CO2 levels fall, so will food production. This is not a model projection but based on hundreds of peer-reviewed studies showing the effects of atmospheric CO2 levels on plants.

To quote another just-released Climategate email: "What if climate change turns out to be a natural fluctuation? They will kill us all." Is that motive for fraud? You be the judge.

NOAA chief connects the climate change dots - Houston Chronicle

Q: Is it frustrating trying to communicate climate change science to a skeptical public?

A: It's unfortunate when politics gets in the way of serving the American people. The kind of climate services we provide is simply information so that people can plan. It's clear that that information is highly valued, and needed.

...Q: We've had an awful drought in Texas this year. Should we be planning for these to occur more frequently?

A: I think there is good reason to believe the extremes we've seen in droughts, flood and heat waves and extreme precipitation events are all likely to get worse in the future. We can connect the dots between those and climate change, and the report that the IPCC just released on extreme events says there's a very high likelihood that we're going to see more of those.

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