Michael Stafford: Romney becomes a climate denier | The Baxter Bulletin | baxterbulletin.com

One hundred years from now, historians will be writing about what we did, or didn’t do, to combat climate change and secure the environment, not about the federal deficit or the latest employment numbers...it’s a safe bet that, under Romney, every bit of coal, oil and natural gas that can be mined, drilled, or fracked and burned for a profit, will be.

As climate change crisis looms, presidential campaigns stay quiet - election - Modbee.com

Twenty years from now, history is going to judge the next generation on how they responded to the destabilization of our climate," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.

The president decides to stick with climatism | TBO.com

The president's use of the term "carbon pollution" is disappointing. Environmentalists inaccurately use this phrase to conjure up images of billowing smoke stacks, and the president has picked this up. The theory of manmade global warming claims that carbon dioxide, not carbon, causes climate change. Carbon dioxide is an invisible gas, while carbon is a black solid. Referring to carbon dioxide as "carbon" is as foolish as calling water "hydrogen" or salt "chlorine." Compounds have totally different properties than their composing elements. Neither is carbon dioxide pollution. It's an odorless, harmless gas that green plants need for photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide is a foundation for life on Earth along with oxygen and water.

Carbon dioxide is a trace gas. Only four of every 10,000 air molecules are CO2. It's estimated that the amount of carbon dioxide that mankind added in all of human history is only a fraction of one of these four molecules. The idea that mankind's tiny contribution to a trace atmospheric gas can cause hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods and wildfires is not a joke, it's incredible.
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The president's statement is remarkable in another way. He implies that we should vote for him because he can control droughts, floods and wildfires to safeguard "our children's future."

Reflections on the Arctic sea ice minimum: Part I | Climate Etc.

The polar regions [including Antarctica?] are extra sensitive to CO2 forcing and water vapor feedback, owing the low amounts of water vapor.