Snowmass May Become Part of UN Climate Change Group

Snowmass Village officials are pondering becoming part of the United Nation's Mountain Partnership, a collection of high-alpine communities around the world that include nearby Basalt as well as Telluride and Park City and which has been set up to spread awareness about the future impacts of climate change on alpine communities. The program's interim director considers mountain communities like Snowmass Village and Aspen a "water tower," providing up to half of all freshwater worldwide, and says that they are also extremely vulnerable to the impacts of global warming.

Mike Smith Enterprises Blog: Global Warming: Is There Anything It Can't Do? Drought and Flood Edition

Science is about advancing a hypothesis (the drought will worsen) and subjecting that hypothesis to testing (whether the drought in fact worsened). In this case, the hypothesis was wrong. The drought has ended in the Midwest and some areas experienced flooding. That result says that climate science cannot accurately forecast and, in the more recent example, anticipate, the cause-and-effect at work here.

These days it seems that everything is caused by climate change. But, that isn't science. That is advocacy.

NPR Goes Full Pravda | Real Science

I just heard a piece on NPR which would have made Hermann Goering green with envy.

The gist of the story was that humans have jacked earth’s thermostat up to unprecedented levels, and that it was the fault of the high school students who were forced to listen to this crap.

No alternative viewpoints were presented. Just hard core destroy America first propaganda.

States Say No to Climate Change as a Threat to Wolverine

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State officials in the Northern Rockies are opposing a federal proposal that cites climate change as a looming threat to the carnivorous wolverine, which depends on deep mountain snows to survive.