Rising concern on climate change - The Washington Post

global energy use will increase by 80 percent by mid-century, with 85 percent of the energy mix coming from fossil fuels. That would likely raise global temperatures well past the target of 2 degrees Celsius, beyond which scientists say climate change could be extremely dangerous. It would also produce lethal amounts of air pollution, manifested in more heart attacks, asthma and other maladies.

...Yet the only energy debate America seems capable of having during this election year revolves around whom to blame for higher gas prices and who can bring them down again. Neither of those is the first, second or even 10th question we’d ask of America’s leaders on energy.

Peter Foster: Suzuki vs. the Senate — who’s silencing whom? | FP Comment | Financial Post

‘Silence and ­demonize’ could be the Suzuki foundation’s motto

The Royal Society’s Blatherfest « NoFrakkingConsensus

The Anthropocene is 100% a political statement. It amounts to a PR strategy on the part of activist scientists. It is a trap laid for gullible journalists. That the co-chair of a conference hosted by the Royal Society has the audacity to suggest that science tells us we’ve entered a new geological era demonstrates not only that science has left the building, it was never there in the first place.

So Insensitive | The Resilient Earth

The choice comes down to dismissing the climate model as predicatively worthless or believe the model when it says all of the really scary, catastrophic affects of global warming predicted by the IPCC and other warmist fanatics are only possible at implausibly high climate sensitivities. Since all those dire predictions are predicated on models, the first choice says the IPCC claims are unsupported in the first place. And if the modeling approach is assumed valid, the reported results led the researchers to conclude: “Assuming that paleoclimatic constraints apply to the future, as predicted by our model, these results imply a lower probability of imminent extreme climatic change than previously thought.” In short, the carbon dioxide climate catastrophe has been called off. Of course, more rational, skeptical scientists would say there never was a looming crisis in the first place.