Environmental Health Perspectives: Flavors of Uncertainty: The Difference between Denial and Debate

Everyone will accept the validity of climate science once they’re ankle-deep in ocean water.

Twitter / MichaelEMann: In today's hearing #Inhofe ...

In today's hearing #Inhofe called me "darling of the left". Guess that makes him "darling of the honesty-bereft"...

How long to the climate change tipping point? | Climate Spectator

Indeed, said Ballantyne, “10 per cent of our work went to making the calculations, and 90 percent was scratching our heads over the uncertainties.” In the end, the scientists combined emissions estimates from three different sources to ensure they had the best possible information.

The new environmentalism: where men must act 'as gods' to save the planet | Paul Kingsnorth | Comment is free | The Guardian

Hope is certainly in short supply in environmental circles these days. With the failure of yet another global summit to "protect the planet" – this time the Rio+20 Earth summit – a tipping point seems to have been reached. Green activism has achieved a lot in five decades, but it has been unable to prevent the global industrial machine from continuing to destroy wild nature and replace it with human culture. There is no prospect of this changing in the near future, and we are reaching the point now when many prominent greens, having denied this reality for so long, are beginning to admit this in public.