Sentence of the Week - NYTimes.com

A. He’s standing amid a fire murmuring “theater.” (Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books, re: Bjorn Lomborg’s pronouncements on climate change)

A little zinger, out of nowhere, toward the end of a long piece on climate-change policy. I imagine McKibben getting out of his chair and hopping around for a few minutes after he wrote this.

Pachauri happy over ‘forward-looking’ IPCC policies

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Chairman, Mr R.K. Pachauri, has expressed happiness over a stronger governance structure and a set of “forward-looking” policies adopted by the Panel at its 33rd Plenary Session

Right to Work | TSSA conference fringe meeting – Climate Change and Trade Unionists: Time for Action

Wanted-One Million Climate Jobs!

Climate Change and Trade Unionists: Time for Action

U.S. Action to Combat Climate Change Remains Urgent: Scientific American

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) called the NAS report "the latest watertight finding on the pile of countless peer-reviewed scientific studies that underscore the risks if the United States doesn't address climate change now, not in 10 or 20 years."
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"Republicans in the House should be ashamed of their votes denying climate change and handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency," [Waxman] said. "If we wait to act, it may be too late to save the planet from irreversible changes."