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Earth Hour is fun time at the Blair household. Some party tips from Tim.

Inhofe Welcomes EPA Inspector General's Office Investigation Into EPA's Scientific Process

[Inhofe] I am pleased that the EPA IG has agreed to my request to investigate the serious problems that have been uncovered regarding EPA's handling of scientific information and its decision-making process," Senator Inhofe said.  "Specifically, the EPA IG will examine EPA's management of the Clean Air Science Advisory Committee and the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, which have shown a blatant lack of impartiality, essentially serving as a rubber stamp for EPA's job-killing agenda.  Fortunately, the EPA IG will look into the five areas that I have identified as the most crucial: 1) balance of committee view points and perspectives, 2) potential conflicts of interest, 3) appearance of impartiality, 4) rotation of members, and 5) peer review.

'You Can't Take Away My Hope': Thirty Years Of Climate [Junk] Scientists Helplessly Describing Our Dangerously Changing World | ThinkProgress

The video concludes with Dr. MacCracken discussing the obligation we all hold towards young people:

I have a colleague who went home very discouraged to her 13-year-old daughter. And her daughter just heard this disappointment and all this stuff, and basically said to her mother, “You can’t take away my hope.” I think we have an obligation to try to find a path.

Floods no 'aberration' in basin balance - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - The Land

JERILDERIE Shire Council Mayor Terry Hogan says from what he’s read about the recent flooding events, and their subsequent impact on the draft Basin Plan currently under debate and due to be tabled in Federal parliament later this year, the MDBA has viewed those new water inflows over the past two years as an “aberration” adding that, “nothing has much changed”.

“To admit otherwise would destroy the theory on which they have based their belief that its climate change,” he said.

“You will notice "global warming" has been dropped from their rhetoric.

“The irony of all this is that our climate has been changing since time began.”

Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists | Energy & Oil | Reuters

For ice sheets - huge refrigerators that slow down the warming of the planet - the tipping point has probably already been passed, Steffen said.