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Aviation officials see global emissions deal possible by 2020 - Reuters News - Point Carbon

GENEVA, May 21 (Reuters) - Senior officials from business and commercial aviation voiced cautious optimism that a long-sought worldwide framework to reduce aviation's carbon emissions could be in place by 2020.

Twitter / RogerAPielkeSr: Spending millions of dollar ...

Spending millions of dollar on no skill climate projections is poor policy compared with grants to communities for school tornado shelters.

Twitter / RichardTol: Cook survey included 10 of ...

Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Snow could fly Catskills, ...

Snow could fly Catskills, Adirondacks and into high ground northern new england this weekend

The Real Climate-Change Lesson from the Oklahoma Tornado - The Daily Beast

The first thing to notice is that when we want to know if tornadoes are related to climate change, we turn to scientists. Take, for example, Harold Brooks, a scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Severe Storms Laboratory. He sees no evidence that climate change is making tornadoes more common or more severe. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF) has the same view, stating in 2012 that it did not see evidence that climate change increased the risk of tornadoes. You hear the same thing from Marshall Shepherd, President of the American Meteorological Society, who tweeted that there is “No link to tornadoes.”

The Reference Frame: Ask questions to James Hansen

If you want to waste 73 minutes, feel more than free to watch a talk that Hansen gave yesterday in front of some people who think he is a "hero". Among other things, Hansen explains that he was skipping classes in the college because he didn't want to show how ignorant he was – which made him even more ignorant. But then he found the environmental movement and ignorance was transformed to a virtue.