Why Climate Change Is A Public Health Issue | ThinkProgress

Some public health officials argue that the image associated with global warming shouldn’t be a polar bear surrounded by melting ice caps, but rather a child suffering from heat exhaustion.

Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost | Mark Lynas | Environment | guardian.co.uk

the weather systems of the entire northern hemisphere are being thrown into chaos. With nuclear, there is a chance that global warming this century can be limited to 2C; without nuclear, I would guess we are heading for 4C or above. That will devastate ecosystems and societies worldwide on a scale which is unimaginable.
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It is nothing short of insane that politicians around the world, under pressure from populations subjected to decades of anti-nuclear fearmongering by people who call themselves greens, are raising our collective risk of catastrophic climate change in order to eliminate the safest power source ever invented.

More people die each day from coal pollution than have been killed by nuclear power in 50 years of operation, and that is even before factoring in the impact on global warming.

The staggering decline of sea ice at the frontline of climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We are a few hundred miles from the north pole. The air temperature is -3C, the sea freezing. All around us in these foggy Arctic waters at the top of the world are floes – large and small chunks of sea ice that melt and freeze again with the seasons.
...In the past Stroeve has shown that ice melt has been happening far faster than the models predicted. Her new research, published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Papers, shows humans may have been responsible for most of the ice loss in recent decades.
"It suggests 60% of the observed decline in ice extent in Septembers from 1953-2011 was due to human activity. [60% seems like a very convenient number.  If the number was under 50% in initial model runs, how many warmists could resist the temptation to tweak something to get a number above 50%?] The decline is linked to the increase in temperatures," she says.
...Sea ice extent has varied naturally over the decades with some Russian data suggesting similar or even greater ice loss in some local areas in the 1930s. But the models are clear, says Stroeve. If you omit the observed records, keeping CO2 levels at pre-industrial levels, then none show a decline of ice cover. When you do put CO2 into the models, they all show a decline, she says.

"Just because there was possibly less ice in some areas at other times, that doesn't mean it's not human-induced now".