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BBC News - Ed Davey attacks 'blinkered' climate change sceptics

Energy Secretary Ed Davey is to make an unprecedented attack later on climate change sceptics.
In a speech, the Lib Dem minister will complain that right-wing newspapers are undermining science for political ends.
He is set to accuses climate sceptics of nimbyism, publicity-seeking, and "blinkered... bloody-mindedness".

What exactly are we debating? | Climate Etc.

For a long time, those that supported the AGW consensus would not debate skeptics or otherwise engage with them, because they felt that such engagement would legitimize the skeptics. It seems that a growing number of scientists and advocates that support the consensus are now engaging with skeptics in the scientific and public debate; this is a good thing (I hope that the RS/GWPF meeting actually takes place).

Column: "Conservative" solutions to climate change | Tampa Bay Times

the tax code could help to mitigate climate change [really?] by attaching some of the costs of the droughts, rising sea levels and extreme weather to all the small actions that are cumulatively responsible for those impacts.

June opening for French ski resort as temperatures plummet in Europe - Telegraph

Italians were being forced to abandon their seasonal Mediterranean diet of fresh fruit and vegetables after the weather caused chaos with harvests, and flooding in the Czech Republic saw soldiers rushing to erect barriers to protect historic sites in Prague.
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"We have hundreds of people here enjoying the snow - it's just like the middle of January," said a spokesman for the ski station, where peaks rise to 2,827 m (9,275 ft).