Drought has US leaders feeling the heat - The National

Daniel Kessler, an activist with 350.org, an organisation that seeks to raise awareness about global warming, said energy policy debates suffered from "cognitive dissonance" that failed to take into account the "road we're on" towards catastrophic climate change.

"This is not esoteric, difficult-to-understand science. This is basic physics. It's also what's now observable in our daily lives. Climate change is here and it's getting worse."

Chris Mooney: 'Why Everybody Must Read Joe Romm’s New Book Language Intelligence' | ThinkProgress

As an English major, I particularly delighted in Romm’s discussion of figures of speech

Apparently Governor Brown, you’ve never visited the weather station at Lake Tahoe | Watts Up With That?

I suppose Gov. Brown has never seen the kind of problems associated with the official NOAA weather stations, like this one I documented at Lake Tahoe with a trash burn barrel nearby

A Closer Look at Extreme Drought in a Warming Climate - NYTimes.com

efforts to develop human communities in drought-prone areas — whether in poverty-mired regions of Africa or the prosperous American West — had better be resilient to what Joe Romm calls “dust-bowlification” with or without a greenhouse push

Martin Hoerling on James Hansen’s ‘game over’ thinking | Watts Up With That?

This is a word document prepared by Dr. Martin Hoerling of NOAA and provided to the New York Times is response to Dr. James Hansen’s “Game Over for The Climate” essay. Since much of the full response has not seen daylight, I asked Dr. Hoerling if I could republish it here and he graciously agreed. – Anthony