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The Open Letter to American Universities | NoFrakkingConsensus

Eminent individuals are urging US educators to encourage a genuine campus debate about fossil fuels.

Who Is Fooling Who When It Comes to Combating Climate Change? - Yahoo! News

Here's the scam. A Chinese company manufactures hydrofluorocarbons, the refrigerant gases responsible for the ozone hole and climate change. The gases can efficiently be turned into cash, either by using them in products like refrigerators or air conditioners or, more lucratively, by destroying them. In the early part of the last decade, Chinese manufacturers of HFCs made more and more of them--more than necessary for use even in the rapidly growing Communist country--because the international market for buying and selling the right to pollute with greenhouse gases awarded credits for their destruction. The gas could be made more cheaply--and then destroyed--than the carbon credits that resulted from their destruction were worth.

Bloomberg’s Climate Fantasy | Watts Up With That?

Based on current NOAA data, it will take over 100 years to gain a foot of sea level rise.

Beaufort Sea Ice Area Above Normal – Has Doubled Since Last Year | Real Science