C3: Extreme Climate Change: Asian Researchers Document Natural Global Warming & Global Cooling Cycle

The UN's IPCC and associated climate doomsday scientists attempted to convince policymakers and the public that extreme climate change was occurring in the modern world world and that it was "unprecedented" - the historical empirical evidence does not support that conclusion

EPA Refuses to Control Pollution From Ships, Aircraft and Non-road Engines

Washington, D.C.--(ENEWSPF)--June 18, 2012.  The EPA announced that it would not take action to control global warming pollution from major mobile sources at this time. The agency’s decision not to regulate ships and other non-road engines, and its indefinite delay in regulating aircraft, comes in response to a 2010 lawsuit from an environmental coalition asking the EPA to address these types of pollution. The announcement, which presents a major setback to efforts to curb global warming emissions, came despite a recent court ruling that the EPA has a duty to address greenhouse pollution from aircraft.

Africa Doesn’t Have a Water Problem - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

From today’s New York Times, Alan MacDonald, a principal hydrogeologist at the British Geological Survey writes:

FOR a continent where more than 300 million people lack access to safe drinking water, Africa is sitting on a lot of it.

Dispatches from Rio - The Legal Environment - NYTimes.com

Expectations could not be lower, as this Christian Science Monitor article makes clear. The biggest shift since the earlier gathering may be the end of a presumption that international tools like treaties should be a central focus of efforts to drive environmental progress. Two of the treaties finalized in Rio 20 years ago — one aimed at conserving biological diversity, the other at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases — are widely viewed as failures.

Those gathered in Rio are assessing failure, but also pondering new ways to sustain Earth’s operating systems — both living and geophysical — as humanity’s growth spurt crests. There’s been incredible progress on many environmental fronts, but huge gaps remain, particularly when the issue is conserving global “commons” ranging from the shared atmosphere — still a free dump for greenhouse gases — to ocean-roaming fish species like bluefin tuna....

There’s much to discuss. I’m not going to Rio (I wrote about, but also did not attend, the first summit there), so I’ll be relying on correspondence from a range of attendees — from students to scientists — and hosting discussions here of relevant issues by analysts and scientists.