Climate Change Mitigation: Refocus Needed

Alas, fossil fuels represent a very lucrative enterprise for many of the world’s largest corporations in the energy business, and a critical enabler of the commercial output and social lifestyles that define 21st Century human existence.  Consequently, there’s immense political and public resistance to imposing any limitations on fossil fuel consumption in order to reduce CO2 emissions. 

So, perhaps a shifting of focus by the cleantech world away from CO2 reductions toward methane/soot reductions would be much more politically acceptable for the foreseeable future and thus would actually gain some real traction. 

It would certainly be more helpful to the planet than another series of endless climate negotiations in far-flung exotic cities that themselves produce a lot of emissions (figuratively and literally) and little substantive progress.   [Via M. Hulme]

Twitter / @susanmcp1: Panel at #SMW12 on Social ...

Panel at #SMW12 on Social Media & #Climate - @revkin @fcousteau @JanineGibson & @OceanDoctor - now online. j.mp/xJKcVU #SMW12

Lakeland, Florida, Cold Weather Sets a Record « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

The low temperature of 31 degrees recorded in Lakeland early Sunday broke the record of 32 degrees set in 1955, according to the National Weather Service.

Monckton and those damn miners | Climate Nonconformist

Graham Readfern’s getting a bit jittery about skeptics getting their point of view across. His article in The Age bears a picture of a rather sinister-looking Lord Monckton.