Jerry Brown’s Anti-Anti-Climate Science Site | KQED's Climate Watch

I asked Brown spokeswoman Elizabeth Ashford who actually wrote the copy for the site. She told me that it was authored by “staff” at the Governor’s Office of Planning & Research, in consultation with climate scientists and several state agencies. She said it’s been in the works for about six months.

Asked if there was some precipitating event for the site, Ashford said only that the Governor was, “aware that there continues to be an undercurrent of mistrust of the science,” that he wanted to address.

Youth summit discusses climate change|Business|chinadaily.com.cn

"The risks of climate change have been talked about for decades, and now they're occurring," Su told China Daily on the sidelines of the 2012 International Youth Leadership Summit on Climate Change.

The impact of climate change is evident everywhere in recent years, Su said. Global heat waves, droughts and floods occur frequently.

The deteriorating environment is a reminder to people to adopt proactive measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change, as well as change their ways of life and modes of production, he said.

Twitter disappears Bill McKibben commentary on #poisonedweather | Watts Up With That?

[See the Update below. While the Tweets did in fact disappear from my view from one hour to the next using the same method to view them as before, and it certainly appeared Mr. McKibben has deleted Tweets, that wasn't the case, it turns out to be an odd nuance of Twitter. An honest mistake that Mr. McKibben also agrees with in his comment below. This is a good lesson for future examinations of this short form communications.- Anthony]

Tribe reunites 135 years on - Fiji Times Online

CLIMATE change has forced the reunion of a tribe once separated by tribal wars and gruesome cannibalism 135 years ago.