The Reference Frame: Biodiversity: can it replace AGW?

But even if you think that almost all the AGW crusaders will peacefully surrender, the idea of their jumping on a significantly different bandwagon sounds even less likely to me. It's simply a fact that the ideological infrastructure - and the "quantification of the sins" - doesn't yet exist for the new biodiversity crisis. And it's not trivial to invent and spread a whole new orthodoxy.

Global warming was nice for the vicious haters of industry, growth, freedom, and humanity because the economic growth could have been translated to a specific physical quantity - the CO2 emissions - that were directly translated to the growth of the temperature. Each unit of economic activity was therefore argued to contribute one step to our journey towards the apocalypse. Once the global mean temperature reaches 16.001 °C, their holy scripture says, the world will burn and everyone will die.

Search for N. Idaho man suspended until spring

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) - The search for a northern Idaho man officials say disappeared in the Selkirk Mountains east of Priest Lake has been suspended until spring.
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Priest Lake Search & Rescue Commander Mike Nielsen says 2 feet of snow in the area has made it difficult for searchers.

Tea Party scoffs at role of green jobs in economic recovery - Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 | 4:23 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun

To be fair to Angle, she in her own, uttered words, has never gone further than to call green jobs “designer” jobs: it’s just that the video her campaign is airing to its supporters displays a full-screen “Green Jobs SCAM” graphic over a picture (much like the words-and-images mockups for things like “Cash For Clunkers” that precede it).

[Co2 causes both?!]: - ‘More floods, droughts expected in Pakistan’

KARACHI: The time has come to reduce manmade temperatures by a significant level to combat global warming, which may cause more floods and droughts in Pakistan, advised environment experts and ministers.

How does an individual CO2 molecule decide whether it will cause drought or flooding in any given week?