The Oddly Tepid Political Fight Over Global Warming - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire

At this point, it's not even clear how Barack Obama would respond to that poll question [How serious a problem is climate change?]. Despite his State of the Union and inaugural pledges to fight for action on warming, the president hasn't had much energy for it, either. In an article this week, The Times notes that, following those speeches, "little more has been heard from the president or his cabinet on the matter." It outlined a few reasons — new leaders in energy-related Cabinet positions; a focus on other issues, like gun control — but left unanswered the perhaps-unanswerable question of what the president actually plans to do.

Beyond the fight over a few specific issues — fracking, which the House will discuss today, and the Keystone XL pipeline — Washington's discussion of climate change is mostly whispered.

Arctic Sea Ice was lower in 1989? (on this day of the year) | sunshine hours

Arctic Sea is running about 3% below the 1981-2010 Mean.

79% Of The US Below Normal Temperature in 2013 | Real Science

Thirty three percent of the US is more than two degrees below normal. Nine percent is more than four degrees below normal. Three percent is more than six degrees below normal.

Twitter / KenCaldeira: Why are we building natural ...

Why are we building natural gas plants without carbon capture and storage? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/an-earth-scientist-explores-the-biggest-climate-threat-fear/?comments#permid=5 …

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Heard the "missing heat" is ...

Heard the "missing heat" is in a grotto near the island of Capri.I think an IPCC funded 1 week exploration of this by me will help solve it

How does an ice age start? With one snowflake

“Most people do NOT realize how short the Canadian growing season is and that the development of new early ripening wheat was a major discovery for Canadian agriculture, says reader Greg. “The snow is slowly melting in the Canadian Prairie, near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. and planting is nearly a month behind already. Ever shortening seasons will wipe out Canadian wheat farming..."