Amid overheated coverage of IPCC climate extremes...

[Revkin] Amid overheated coverage of IPCC climate extremes report, vital to note fine print (via @rogerpielkejr)

Twitter / @PeterGleick: "Nine ways scientists...do ...

"Nine ways scientists...don't understand journalism" bit.ly/ypsOFq How about "Nine ways journalists don't understand science"?

EU Referendum: Nuke plans scrapped

The Mail says the government has been dealt a "devastating blow". It is not wrong, although the bigger blow is going to be suffered by the people, when the fatuous windmills stop turning and the lights go out.

Already excessively delayed, the nuclear programme was our last, best hope of keeping the lights out. Now it looks as if we are well truly and domed.

Chris Mooney | Conservatives versus [Junk] Science: A New Scientific Validation of the Republican War on Science (and Republican Brain) Thesis

Whatever the underlying causes, though, the punchline of the story that Gauchat tells—reaffirming the story I have told—is unmistakably grim. We now have a powerful linkage between a powerful political movement in the United States on the one hand, and the denial of science and reality on the other. This not only manifests itself every day in our dysfunctional political debates; it is a gigantic threat to the country’s future and its ability to cope with 21^st century problems.

RealClimate: The IPCC SREX: the report is finally out.

Some of us have been waiting quite a while now, especially since the ‘road tour’ meant to present the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation starting in Oslo on January 24th this year.