What do we really know about global warming? | Environment | DW.DE | 06.06.2012

[Professor Mojib Latif] Well of course there is some uncertainty. There always is in science. But we know enough. We know the earth is warming, we know the ice is melting, we know sea level is rising. So the indications are all there, and it would go against our normal behavior based on experience not to take these warning signs seriously. If the chance of being knocked down by a car were 50-50, nobody would cross the street. So why is it that with the climate or environmental issues in general we insist on a 100 percent probability? That makes no sense.

IBD: Facts Get In The Way–Again–Of A Good Global Warming Story | JunkScience.com

Hillary Clinton made a well-publicized trip last week to the Arctic to see for herself the impact of global warming. Less well known, however, are two reports that contradict the climate-change alarmists.

Historical Storm Trends in Australia and New Zealand | Originals

Among the highly publicized changes in weather phenomena that are predicted to attend CO2-induced global warming are increases in the frequency and severity of various types of storms. Storms are a concern of the residents of any coastal city, as high winds, water surges and high-energy waves carry the potential for damage via flooding and erosion. It is therefore important to examine the historical records of storms for trends, to see if the so-called unprecedented rise in atmospheric CO2 and temperature of the late-20th and early 21st century has had any measurable effect on such records. The present review addresses this issue as it pertains to the region of Australia and New Zealand.

Zac Goldsmith: climate change pushes other issues off the agenda | Environment | The Guardian

The influential Tory MP Zac Goldsmith says the intense focus on climate change in the last decade has encouraged politicians and environment groups to drop key green issues like air pollution, biodiversity and food and avoid reform of the economic system.

"Climate change went too far. A lot of stuff slipped off the agenda. The environment became about carbon and not the environment that you can feel and touch and see. Food, biodiversity, air quality all got knocked off. When we talked about forests we talked about them as sticks of carbon.

"If you are just looking only at climate change you do not really have to address the economic system in the same way. By focusing so much on carbon it allowed us to take our eye off the ball."