Arctic Sea Ice: What, Why, And What Next | ThinkProgress

Everyone who studies the ice melt agrees that natural weather variation from year to year has played a role. Both 2007 and 2012 were unusually bad years for the ice, and would have been even if the planet’s climate hadn’t changed. Looking over the data from 1979 to 2011 (before this year’s new record low), a team of scientists led by Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center found that those random variations accounted for around 40 percent of the change in ice cover to date, and that human activity accounted for around 60 percent of the change.

Climate Change Dispatch - Courts Not Scientists Sneaked Greenhouse Gas Sham into Law

Even though neither U.S. presidential candidate is talking up man-made global warming behind the scenes, courts are hard at work making laws based on controversial greenhouse gas science.

An undemocratic, largely unseen shift in American law is now taking place. You would never know it from the media facade but 2012 has witnessed an inexorable Big Green legal juggernaut driving across America.

Twitter / ClimateDesk: Sachs: #climate ignored in ...

Sachs: #climate ignored in prez campaign bc "we have willful neglect and terror by politicians at the hands of the lobbies" #ows

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If climate scientists are going to blog on Huffington Post, then they might as well just get it over with & put a (D) after their name

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It doesn't matter if you agree that CC is real and worrisome: Saying anything critical of climate science these days will not be tolerated.

El Salvador in battle against tide of climate change - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent

Climate chaos is the last thing that El Salvador neeed. Among the Western Hemisphere's poorest nations and plagued by gang warfare that has seen its murder rate reach 33 times that of the UK, it has more than enough on its plate without having to worry about an internal wave of climate refugees.