Watts Interview – Denial and Reality Mix like Oil and Water

["Skeptical" "Science"] as Richard Alley has explained, in reality climate scientists are the reasonable skeptics in the middle, with denialists at one extreme and doomsayers at the other.
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only about 2% of global warming goes into heating the atmosphere. About 90% of global warming goes into heating the oceans, and when we account for all of the data, it's clear that global warming continues unabated. Only considering the convenient bit of data is just another cherrypick.

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Rep. Clyburn, the #3 House Dem, said Keystone pipeline didn't surface at Obama's meeting with House Dems in Capitol.

Blumenauer takes Congressional carbon tax helm | Sustainable Business Oregon

Blumenauer, who’s one of two Portland U.S. representatives, also plans to track the four state-level efforts to impose taxes on pollutants emitted by manufacturers.

Skeptical Environmentalist opposes propping up EU carbon credits | Reuters

"Propping the price of carbon permits is wrong," said Bjorn Lomborg, director of Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School. He said higher carbon prices would damage the EU economy and would not help to achieve any significant climate goals.