EU moves to shore up price of carbon emissions | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Changes to emissions trading scheme are not the large-scale reforms that campaigners and green businesses had urged

Tom Bowman Launches Blog to De-Politicize Climate Change Discussion | Cision Wire

July 25, 2012 – Signal Hill, CA – Tom Bowman, a small business entrepreneur and one of the premier interpreters of climate science and green business strategies, has created a new blog to examine public attitudes about climate change and the core values that motivate people to engage in climate response. Using an exploratory approach, the TomBowman.com blog will go beyond the simplistic, highly partisan rhetoric that typifies climate change discussions to reveal what Americans are already doing in response to the climate challenge—and why.

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Only the science is settled. The rest is up to us.

Paper finds climate is 'highly sensitive to extremely weak' changes in solar activity -- 'not just on the decadal scales' Paper published in Science | Climate Depot

[Revkin]: Some of those other “unprecedented” melt events at...

Some of those other “unprecedented” melt events at Greenland ice sheet summit. Figure 2 in 1994 Science paper. Caption:

The 100-year smoothed accumulation record from the GISP2 core for the period A.D. 500 to the present. The arrows show locations of visually identified melt layers in the ice core.

Paging AP’s Seth Borenstein – Hey Seth, where’s the beef? | Watts Up With That?

As Keegan et al. (2011) tells us, just because we have a shiny new satellite camera, doesn’t mean we are photographing “unprecedented events”. It is mind blowing that NASA would allow this self contradictory piece in the first place, and then let it go uncorrected after being notified that there’s no unprecedented event at all, and their own article citing Keegan et al says so!