Warm winter 'not in the top 10'

Temperatures 4.5 C warmer than normal but only 17th on list of the NWT's warmest winters

Brandon Brown: What Made a Good Scientist [Gleick] Do a Bad Thing?

To understand his frustration, imagine a news show where NBA star Kevin Durant is held up as an equal basketball player to a pudgy, 5'9" guy who once played for his high school team. Mr. Durant is only allowed the opportunity to prove himself in a 40-second seated appearance, where he can discuss his career and playing ability. The weekend warrior gets equal time, and he regales the audience with stories of scoring 200 points in his driveway, all while pointing out that Mr. Durant is rather skinny, as athletes go. The moderator says, "Well, that's all we have time for today. Clearly a hotly debated issue. Next up, Angelina Jolie's leg!"

Would anyone blame Mr. Durant for trying to leak home movies of the guy bricking shots in his driveway? Or trying to drag the fellow to a real NBA arena to unveil the truth? The analogy is silly, but it underlines the frustration that a person such as Dr. Gleick must have felt, for many years, finding himself pitched against largely non-scientific adversaries in non-scientific arenas. And unlike a basketball career, the perceived stakes are much larger than someone's reputation.

Twitter / @PenHadow: For some, climate change w ...

For some, climate change will only become a reality and concern when the tap is turned on and no water comes out. Drought in London is real.

Baptists and Climate Change | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

When Binkley Minister Peter Carman took the pulpit, he described global warming as “a terrible crisis of our own making.”

“Let me acknowledge today I don’t believe in hell,” he said. “But let us acknowledge that, accept or reject that, humanity has the power to create hell in the here and now.”

Amen! one parishioner muttered from the pews.

The Authoritarian Impulse and Climate Change « NoFrakkingConsensus

If Suzuki can’t think of a way to save the world that doesn’t involve trampling on other people’s liberty that tells me everything I need to know about the world we’d all be left with. Unfortunately, he isn’t alone. Authoritarianism is alive and well in the green movement. Rather than lurking on the fringes, it’s center stage.