Thursday, July 19, 2012

'Climate change' absent from public discussion about drought | Iowa City Press Citizen | press-citizen.com
The phrase “climate change” or any analysis of causation for the current drought was absent from the public discussion. This was a meeting about row crop agriculture and related agricultural producers and it was intended to deal with the as-is situation.
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During the public comment section, a truck driver who had just delivered a load of grain stood at the microphone and demonized the environmental groups for trying to influence food production. It got the biggest applause at the event and the governor jumped on board reminding us of his joining a lawsuit in Nebraska against an environmental group.
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Have climate change 'sceptics' made any efforts to bring to justice the UEA email hacker(s)?
PAM DZAMA | Climate change and angry 'earth gods' » Kitsap Sun Mobile
The writer praises Bill Nye the Science Guy and his experiment with a jar filled with CO and says the increased temperature generated by a light shined into the jar "... mimics what we do every day when we pour 88 million tons of CO into ... our atmosphere ..." He concludes by asking, "Why care about a little thunder and lightning? Because it is our country and our world that are hurting. The earth gods are angry."

Not to insult any polytheistic readers out there, but I don't believe a summer storm, complete with lightning and thunder, was caused by angry "earth gods" and portends the demise of the Earth.
Smoking Gun For UHI In California | Real Science
The summers of 1917 and 1931 had the second and third hottest maximum temperatures in California, but all of the top three summer average minimums occurred during the past decade. Urbanization is making nighttime temperatures warmer – an inconvenient fact which the “experts” choose to downplay or ignore.

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