Climate [insanity] in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery | Grist

Have a respected teacher—maybe from the science department—lead a public presentation. She should mention some compelling data, but also tell about her summer trip to Australia’s drought-stricken Southeast and the dust that coated her morning tea.
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There would be plenty of time for questions and planning a group response. Finally, it would help to flood the gym so attendees could sit up to their ankles in water, to really feel what flooding is like.

YouTube - Carbon trading 'the next sub-prime' - new research

Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second 'sub-prime' style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from global warming. Hear all about it from Friends of the Earth's Sarah-Jayne Clifton - who's written a report about the dangers of carbon trading.

Bipartisan trio the great green hope? - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

Climate bill supporters are looking to Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman as the great, green hope for getting legislation through the Senate.
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Kerry acknowledged that the term “cap and trade” has become politically problematic.
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“The bill that I submitted with Sen. Boxer [that] went to her committee doesn’t mention cap and trade, and there’s a reason. It’s about pollution reduction,” he said. “What we need to do is call it what it really is.”

IPCC CHAIRMAN DR PACHAURI

I was with growing disbelief that I read the Times of India article "IPCC CHAIRMAN TAKES UP POST AS CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S CLIMATE ADVISOR" followed by the AFP article "THE NEW IPCC CONSENSUS: CHINA, INDIA SHOULD SHAME RICH COUNTRIES INTO WEALTH TRANSFER".

The UN's IPCC's Chairman Pachauri acting as climate advisor to the Chinese government, no less? And the same "climate advisor" stating in Beijing that China and India should "shame" developed economies into "wealth transfer"? Based on evidence, taking Pachauri aside and explaining the fundamentals of conflict of interest to him would likely be an exercise in futility.

Two things have at least been achieved by Pachauri's actions: One, any pretence that may have remained about the IPCC as a "scientific" "intergovernmental" advisory body has been removed, hopefully once and for all...
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IT'S ALL HAPPENED BEFORE (1)
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Less than a half mile from my home in Vancouver, B.C. sits the RCMP Vessel Saint Roch. She's been declared a national monument or some such designation, and for good reason. In the early 1940's she traversed the Northwest Passage. Then she did it again. Then again, in the other direction. Three times, three times.
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This small, woefully underpowered vessel was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage west to east, was the first to traverse it more than once, was the first to traverse it in both directions, and was the first to circumnavigate North America (using the Panama Canal at the small end).