The plot thickens at UVa – Kington resigns | Watts Up With That?

The man whose namesake “Kington Chair” (Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professorship in Environmental Change) that was supposedly to be given to Michael Mann, has resigned from UVa amid the turmoil of the recent ouster of president Teresa Sullivan in a shady weekend coup that bypassed the normal Board of Visitors schedule and several board members.

Letter to Tom Clynes at Popular Science | Climate Skeptic

In fact, according to the IPCC, it is feedback, not greenhouse gas theory, that causes the catastrophe.

The is why harping on the “98% of scientists” meme is so irritating to many skeptics.  The 98% of scientists in this survey said two things:  that the world has warmed over the last century and that CO2 from man was a significant cause of this warming.  But most science-based skeptics agree with this!  We don’t deny warming or greenhouse gas theory, we deny the catastrophe, which we face only if the assumption of the climate being dominated by strong net positive feedback is correct.

What on earth are they smoking at Rio? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

 Read the final draft document of the Rio+20 conference. You will be astonished by its utter vacuity. It is 49 pages of pap, expressing nothing but platitudes and mawkish sentimentality, with a dose of health-spa green religion. The only thing to interrupt the droning is the occasional vigorous shake of the collection tin for the United Nations and its army of bureaucrats. And prime ministers are sitting there, nodding, clapping and signing this drivel?Just check out this cheap New Age green mysticism in the final draft

Study Claims Human Obesity Now Threatens Global Climate…Points Finger At Lazy, Fat North Americans And Arabians

Bild writes that increasing obesity does not only causes chronic ailments such as diabetes and cardio-vascular disease, but could develop into a climate-killer. Because of addiction to fat and obesity, CO2-emissions are higher than they should be.

What’s Good For Women is Good for the Planet | ThinkProgress

[Maggie L. Fox is the President and CEO, The Climate Reality Project] Access to modern birth control isn’t a side issue — we truly can’t have sustainable development without it. Empowering women creates a positive ripple effect — creating healthy and more prosperous families and communities, slowing population growth, and helping restore the balance between people and the air, land and water we all depend upon for life.

In so doing, we will also dramatically slow the growth of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions — to the same degree as if we increased the world’s reliance on wind power dramatically, scaled up the efficiency of buildings and vehicles, or made huge strides in reducing deforestation. Now that’s a huge win for women, families and for the planet.