Op-Ed Columnist - Global Weirding Is Here - [Tom Friedman] - NYTimes.com

Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill.
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In my view, the climate-science community should convene its top experts — from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre — and produce a simple 50-page report. They could call it “What We Know,” summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language that a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes.

At the same time, they should add a summary of all the errors and wild exaggerations made by the climate skeptics — and where they get their funding. It is time the climate scientists stopped just playing defense.
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1) Avoid the term “global warming.” I prefer the term “global weirding,” because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier and the most violent storms more numerous.

[Flashback: Friedman sees early daffodils in the yard of his mansion; concludes that "the little people" must radically change the way that they live]

Finally, Friedman said, the emergence of a national and global consensus on the validity of climate change--tip of the hat to Al Gore--has hastened most Americans to worry about the health of the planet.

"We had daffodils growing in our front yard in Washington this December," he said. "It was like being in the Twilight Zone. I half expected Rod Serling to be out mowing my lawn."

SPACE.com -- Cold Weather Forces NASA to Delay Next Shuttle Launch

Cold weather in Florida has forced NASA to delay its next space shuttle launch to no earlier than April 5, even as its current shuttle mission is still under way.

An unusually long cold snap has kept engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., from moving the shuttle Discovery out of its maintenance hangar so it can be attached to the external tank and rocket boosters that will help it launch into orbit, NASA officials said Tuesday.

Sportsmen key in global warming debate | argusleader.com | Argus Leader

"Even if the top scientists are off even a little bit - which I don't think they are - what's so bad about doing something now to clean up our air, our water?" Lepisto said. "How is that a bad thing? Clean water and clean air is good for everybody."