No Change In Alaska Winter Length | Real Science

The IPCC says that shorter winters are a sure sign of global warming, which is why winters have gotten slightly longer in Fairbanks.

Tortoise Irony | Planet3.0

Some greenies like to beleive that everything is simple, that there is an obvious right way out of our quandaries, and that if we adopted the right way all would be well. The LATimes has a counterexample: solar energy facilities vs. an endangered desert tortoise.

...To cap it off, when I read the article the LA times served me up a prominent ad for a Dodge Ram to go with it.

Quark Soup by David Appell: The Latest Sign the World Won't Cut CO2

So it turns out the world can come together to face a common problem -- except it's in opposition to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions instead of for it.

All the big non-European countries -- the United States, China, Japan, Russia and India -- are signatories to the "Moscow Joint Declaration," which expresses disapproval of EU's plan to charge airlines for the carbon their planes emit flying to Europe.

Quark Soup by David Appell: McKibben's Dishonest Huff Post Piece

Sure, it's easy for McKibben or me or you to say we shouldn't burn all the tar sands or all the coal. But we have very, very good lives and get to fly all over the world to do what we want.

Do you think about carbon when you fly? Anywhere? No, neither do I.

I'd FOIA McKibben's travel schedule if I could. But 350.org is a private organization, so I can't. I know he sometimes tries to do video appearances instead of in-person lectures. I also know he recently flew to Corvallis, Oregon to give a lecture in person. And that he's been all over. McKibben has surely emitted far more carbon than he's "entitled" to, on the per-capita basis that would keep atmospheric CO2 levels from reaching "dangerous" levels. Of course, so have I (but not as much as McKibben). And so have you (but not as much, I suspect, as McKibben.))

Once activists get into a cause, you just can't trust them to accurately portray the facts, especially if the facts change against them. I wonder how much funding 350.org gets, anyway. Does anyone know? Have they ever revealed it?