Communicating Climate Change

You can’t fake...sea level rising faster and faster

A Reagan flashback, &c. - Jay Nordlinger - National Review Online

You’ve reminded me of a dear old history professor friend of mine. Whenever someone made a comment about how unusually warm or unusually cold or unusually dry or whatever the weather was, he would tell the story of a farmer friend of his who once said to him, “John, I’ve been farming for 30 years. Only one of them was normal.”

I commented, “Perfect. The most scientific thing I’ve heard, about the climate, in months.”

Britain's £30m pledge to plant trees in China is barking | The Sun |News

UK industry spokesman Roger Helmer MEP slammed the decision.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “The revelations that the UK is underwriting nearly £1billion for climate change packages in the last year alone is
staggering.

“That we are sending hundreds of millions off to Brazil, India and China to plant trees and the like is quite simply absurd.”

Cold snaps continue to plague Erie County fruit growers | GoErie.com/Erie Times-News

Mason said frost damage has taken a bite out of the grape crop three of the past four years. Crop insurance, which most fruit growers carry, can ease some of the sting of a poor crop, but not all of it.

Overnight freeze threatens vineyards, orchards | Weather - KCCI Home

Dean Henry said Iowa weather is always unpredictable, and after nearly 50 years in this business, he's used to it.