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Obama's fracked-up climate strategy will guarantee global warming disaster | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Fatally flawed energy policies and inadequate emissions pledges cannot prevent dangerous climate change

Beyond Green Dogma: Environmentalists Need to Take Nuclear Power Seriously

nearly two years before Fukushima, James Hansen, one of the world’s top experts on global warming, warned that Germany’s anti-nuclear policy would result in more coal plants, the larger point being that because of wind and solar’s unreliability, they are in effect parasitic on fossil fuels

Bittersweet Achievement on Climate - NYTimes.com

Cap-and-trade is now demonized as a “job killing” regulation — a “full-blown fleecing of the middle class,” as House Speaker John A. Boehner put it. A carbon tax would significantly reduce the deficit and raise revenue — without taxing work or investment. Yet this common-sense idea seems politically impossible in today’s Washington.

Global warming is just like Sputnik, when you don't think about it | The Daily Caller

There’s one big difference between the space race and the global-warming race:
Space exists.
It’s not a computer model. We’ve been there. We’ve seen it. That’s settled science.

Obama embraces global warming while saying he will approve the Keystone XL pipeline -- IF it's carbon-neutral | Mail Online

Obama braved the 93-degree heat, perhaps to make a point about global warming. In 2009, climate change protesters had to call off a protest in front of the White House when a record snowfall hit Washington, D.C.

Washington, District of Columbia (20001) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground

[June 26] Record (KDCA) 101 °F (1952)