Saturday, July 07, 2012

Heat wave, fires have climate change activists going on the offensive - The Hill's E2-Wire

For the green movement, the wild weather is a chance to show that oppressive heat and dangerous storms — and maybe even big winter snowstorms — are what experts believe nature has in store.

“This is another sad chapter in connecting the dots, and there will be more chapters, unfortunately, and hopefully the story won't get too much worse before we finally do something,” said Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity.

“We have to talk about it. This is, unfortunately, an opportunity to do that,” said Snape, the group’s senior counsel.
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But the extent to which the green movement overall crafts its message around the dangers of extreme weather remains to be seen, a senior official with the Sierra Club said.

Labor 'gives up' on its carbon tax case | SBS World News

Labor has already given up trying to justify its carbon tax to the Australian people, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.

Mr Abbott says a week after the national tax on carbon emissions was introduced, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has essentially "given up the fight".

Twitter / omnologos: Pontificating about CO2 em

Pontificating about CO2 emissions after every heatwave is just a form of scavenging

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: http://t.co/BULyOwJy Not

Not knowing about Derecho's is the tip of the Dunning Krueger Iceberg of Ignorance on weather/climate with this bunch

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