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The President as Communicator: How Obama Delivered His Climate Policies | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

[NRDC climate hoax promoter Dan Lashof]: "...We need to say that climate change causes extreme weather. Full stop.”
... As with “Obamacare,” Americans cannot yet know whether and how well “Obamaclimate” will work unless and until it is implemented.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds tropical forests are producing more flowers, a sign of vitality

A new study led by Florida State University researcher Stephanie Pau shows that tropical forests are producing more flowers in response to only slight increases in temperature.

Manhattan Sea Level Rose Twice As Fast From 1928 To 1948 | Real Science

The sea level rise rate at Manhattan has been steady for 150 years, except for 1928-1948, when it rose twice as fast.

U.S. coal burning up 11% in 2013; Gas use down 14%; CO2 emissions increasing 2013-14 | JunkScience.com

Coal’s share of total domestic power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5%, compared with 35.4% during the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration, the analytical branch of the Energy Department.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds a large deceleration of glacier melt in Glacier Bay over past 63+ years

A new paper published in the Journal of Glaciology finds there has been a large [78%] deceleration of glacier melt in the Glacier Bay area of Alaska and British Columbia over the past 63+ years. According to the authors, "For the full period (1995–2011) the average mass loss was 3.93 ± 0.89 Gigatons per year, compared with 17.8 Gigatons per year for the post-Little Ice Age (1770–1948) rate," a deceleration of 78%.