Fake Tree Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Baking Soda To Stop Climate Change | UPROXX

Enter the geoengineers, who have invented a plastic tree that’s a thousand times more efficient at getting carbon dioxide out of the air than the real thing.  [How much CO2 is emitted in the process of making one of these plastic trees?  What is the cost of each tree, and how many dollars' worth of bad weather is prevented per tree?]

Actual AP Headline: 'Experts: Global Warming Means More Antarctic Ice' | NewsBusters.org

Competive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner weighed in by email:

"Oddly, for years they dined out on talk of 'melting polar ice caps', always and clearly in the plural. That's what the theory and their models said. Just not what reality said. After confrontation with defiant reality became too much, Al Gore famously shifted his rhetoric to refer only to 'the north polar ice cap'.

"Now the theory has evolved to match unhelpful observations. As we are hearing in other contexts, 'things evolved'.

"In this case, that thing is their theory. Even if it means trashing all of the models they've sworn were really, seriously, credible, apparently this beast's saying embarrassing things like 'there must be something wrong with the observations'. Which they actually said about uncooperative ocean temperatures.

"Here you see the sausage-making of 'science', though I use the term loosely. Now, I suppose it's time to scrub history to bring it up to date!"

Warning Signs: The Oceans Are Neither Rising, Nor Turning to Acid

In fact, as Cliff Ollier, an emeritus professor of geology, has noted, “Marine life flourishes where CO2 is abundant. Over geological time enormous amounts of CO2 have been sequestered by living things, so that today there is far more CO2 in limestone than in the atmosphere or ocean. This sequestration of CO2 by living things is far more important than trivial additions to the atmosphere caused by human activity.”

CU-Boulder wins $1.4 million NSF award for climate change, water sustainability study

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $1.4 million for a new study on how changes in land use, forest management and climate may affect trans-basin water diversions in Colorado and other semi-arid regions in the western United States.