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Crusader for Science in the Classroom Steps Down | OnEarth Magazine

[Eugenie Scott] With regard to climate change, is the sea level going to rise two inches or six? What are the data? That's a great exercise

How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy

According to Bearce and Barker, 76 percent of self-identified Republicans say they believe in the End Times. [Does that number sound high to anyone else?]

Bill McKibben Talks Climate Change and Religion | The Green Word

[Video] On Sunday, April 28th, 2013, activist Bill McKibben was a guest preacher at his former church, the Riverside Church in NYC. During his sermon, McKibben made connections between religious values and climate change, corporate greed and the divestment of fossil fuel stock.

Ski fields optimistic after NZ cold snap

Tourism operators in Queenstown are celebrating two falls of snow a month ahead of the start of the ski season.

Sun News : On ethical oil, blood and Gore

at least Canada's oil producers have no blood on their hands.
And that, to us, is ethical oil.

Quadrant Online - Some Like It To Appear Hot

As a check on the possible urban heat island effect in central Melbourne, the site of the Bureau of Meteorology thermometers (shown below), it is worth examining nearby temperature measurements. A comparison with readings at Laverton, some 18 kilometres distant from the CBD, shows there is a bit of heat in the city.

A Common Fallacy In Global Warming Arguments | William M. Briggs

No statistical population underlies the models by which climatologists project the amount, if any, of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions we’ll have to endure in the future. This absence of a statistical population has dire consequences.