How Americans see global warming — in 8 charts

[Washington Post] Just 26 percent of Americans said they trust scientists “completely” or “a lot” in a 2012 Washington Post-Stanford University poll, down from 32 percent in 2007. More, 35 percent, said they trust scientists only “a little” or “not at all.” In a striking finding, more than one-third of the public believed climate scientists who say global warming is real make their conclusions based on money and politics.

Disturbing Normalcy Of Arctic Ice Continues Unabated | Real Science

When climate experts say that the Arctic sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, they mean that it is right at the 30 year mean.

Second Coldest March/April On Record In The US | Real Science

Based on readings so far this month, the March-April period is the second coldest on record in the US, beaten only by 1975 .

The warmest March-April was in 1910.

Coldest Spring On Record In North Dakota | Real Science

Almost two thirds of the way through meteorological spring, North Dakota is obliterating their old record for the coldest spring ever – by almost 3°C.

Earth Day's good news: Column

[Lomborg] German taxpayers have poured $130 billion into subsidizing solar panels, but ultimately by the end of the century, this will postpone global warming by a trivial 37 hours. The electric car is even less efficient. Its production consumes a vast amount of fossil fuels, and mostly it utilizes fossil fuel electricity to be recharged. Even if the U.S. did reach the lofty goal of 1 million electric cars by 2015 — costing taxpayers more than $7.5 billion — global warming would be postponed by only 60 minutes.