Drought of 2012 conjures up Dust Bowl memories, raises questions for tomorrow - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Some 3.5 million people fled their homes in Oklahoma, Texas, and elsewhere, the bone-dry landscape, blistering heat and choking dust storms unfit for growing and raising the crops and cattle they relied on to survive.

Thousands more, many of them children and seniors, could not escape, killed by an infection dubbed "dust pneumonia" and other illnesses tied not just to the extreme weather and poor living conditions but to massive, fast-moving dust clouds.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: #climate. Pols focus on ...

#climate. Pols focus on retatively trivial problems of debt, which could be solved by negotiation. You can't negotiate with nature!

Climate Change - YouTube

In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.

F10.7 Flux, Sea Level and the Holocene | Watts Up With That?

[David Archibald] I have come to the conclusion that a F10.7 Flux of 100 is the breakover between heating and cooling on Earth. It explains most things to me. My best guess on that at this point is January 2015, following which, two decades of cooling will ensue.