How Cold April Could Mean Cool Summer In DFW « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

The latest climate outlook for May has North Texas seeing cooler than average temperatures.

maribo: Engaging the public without disengaging from science

"Stealth" advocacy, as Roger Pielke Jr. discusses in The Honest Broker, can lead to the politicization of science. If the audience disagrees with my "should" statement, they may then question my objective statement or my results. They also may, quite reasonably, conclude that I am abusing the position of authority granted to me by the public as a consequence of my title and degree to advance my personal agenda. The perception of this dynamic is very much at play in climate change discourse, where a lot of scepticism of the science is rooted in a mistaken belief that the core of climate science has been politically compromised.

Milken Conference: Al Gore Rocks Crowd With Global Warming Speech - The Hollywood Reporter

"This is for real. It is not made up. The scientists are not in a conspiracy to lie to us," Gore nearly shouted.

"The generation of people alive today will be held accountable," he said. "Our children and grandchildren ... if they exist in a world that has been devastated by these consequences that have been predicted and are beginning to unfold -- they would be well justified in asking of us: 'What in the hell were you thinking? And what in the hell were you doing? And why were you so willfully blind of what was happening on your watch?'"

LA Times - Climate change causes prostitution? Rep. Barbara Lee explains

“It’s unfortunate that this resolution has been misrepresented as to its goals,” Lee told the Los Angeles Times via email. “Tragically, as women across the world are pushed to the margins, they become more vulnerable. And we’ve seen time after time that women on the edge are forced to make heartbreaking choices, this among them.”

Lee, who represents Berkeley, Oakland and other parts of the East Bay, originally introduced this resolution in 2009. She introduced it again last week in recognition of Earth Week (an extended version of Earth Day).