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Victoria Day Today – A Reminder Of Times When The Climate Was Stable | Real Science

Canada celebrates Queen Victoria’s birthday today. She was fortunate to live during a time when the climate was safe from high levels of CO2.

Tornadoes and floods in 1890 destroyed hundreds of villages and killed thousands of people in the US.

Solar Panels Set St. Louis School On Fire | Real Science

The fire broke out about 1:45 p.m. The cause has not yet been determined, but Webster Groves Battalion Chief Tom Yohe said it was “possible” the fire was sparked by one of the school’s solar panels.  [Should we invoke the Precautionary Principle and ban solar panels on schools?]

On climate change, Obama faces an attack from his left flank

If you want to get a sense of how impatient some of President Obama’s most loyal supporters are getting when it comes to climate change, consider this: They’re planning to conduct protests at meetings of the grassroots advocacy organization run by his former top campaign aides.

Who's Escaping Climate Change 'Mire and Muck'? - NYTimes.com

On This American Life this weekend, Ira Glass tried to jog the climate conversation out of the “mire and muck” with an hourlong discussion of impacts and options related to human-driven global warming.
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In the final segment, “Find an Enemy,” Glass confers with Bill McKibben, describing the climate campaigner as “doing more than anyone to reinvent the politics of climate change.”

BBC News - Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely'

Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?

"None. No comfort whatsoever," [Dr. Otto] said.