Thing Of The Past Arrives Early In The UK | Real Science

The UK’s leading climate forecasters say that the last snow disappeared twelve years ago.

Dogmatism in Science and Medicine: How Dominant Theories Monopolize | Watts Up With That?

Unwarranted dogmatism has taken over in many fields of science: in Big-Bang cosmology, dinosaur extinction, theory of smell, string theory, Alzheimer’s amyloid theory, specificity and efficacy of psychotropic drugs, cold fusion, second-hand smoke, continental drift . . . The list goes on and on.

Dissenting views are dismissed without further ado, and dissenters’ careers are badly affected. Where public policy is involved — as with human-caused global warming and HIV/AIDS — the excommunication and harassment of dissenters reaches a fever pitch with charges of “denialism” and “denialists”, a deliberate ploy of association with the no-no of Holocaust denying.

[Hooray for fossil fuels; also, where are the articles about solar-powered NYC buildings staying warm and lighted?] How N.Y.U. Stayed (Partly) Warm and Lighted - NYTimes.com

When much of Manhattan south of Midtown was blacked out, the lights were on at most of New York University, as was the heat and hot water. As I wrote in January 2011, N.Y.U. installed a small network of its own, burning natural gas in a unit that not only made electricity but also delivered the heat that would otherwise go to waste for use in heating and cooling. That process is known as cogeneration.

Unpredictable climate | The Australian

Of course, it's reassuring to know that should things turn nasty we always have the carbon tax to protect us.

How Cities Plan to Keep the Sea at Bay in an Age of Climate Change - NYTimes.com

Now imagine a near-future that is markedly worst, where storms are not only more vicious and more frequent, but ocean levels are higher too.