Drought leads to ethanol backlash, finicky farm animals, and higher food prices for you | Grist

If this year’s drought isn’t sustained into next, it possibly won’t even have been the worst drought this century. The one that evaporated the western U.S. from 2000 to 2004 was determined to have been the worst drought in 800 years — since well before Europeans discovered the New World, or had even heard of corn.

Still healthily sceptical about alarming tendencies | thetelegraph.com.au

WE anti-climate alarmists are always calling for open minds on global warming, so we are honour-bound to applaud all eventualities.

In this case, former climate sceptic University of California physicist Richard A Muller deserves credit for transparency and a willingness to admit he was wrong - even if it later turns out he is wrong about being wrong.

Why Can't The Government Address Climate Change? (Q&A With David M. Uhlmann -- Part I) - Forbes

In 1988, George H. W. Bush ran for election promising to be the “Environmental President”

Kaua‘i impact noted in Senate climate change report

HONOLULU — An assistant professor [Malia Akutagawa] at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa recently told federal lawmakers the steadily increasing surface air temperature in Hawai‘i is causing reduced cloud cover and a 15 percent decline in rainfall, UH reported Friday.
... “Global sea level is expected to rise 3 feet above current levels by the end of this century.”...
Akutagawa, a Native Hawaiian cultural subsistence practitioner from Molokai...