A Climate and Energy Stalemate - NYTimes.com

As Mr. Obama seeks re-election, a warming climate and its related challenges — more frequent droughts and wildfires, rising seas and more violent storms — are near the bottom of the national agenda.

Sea levels have been rising for maybe 20,000 years, well before the invention of the SUV.  Does the New York Times have any evidence to back up the suggestion that CO2 causes more frequent droughts and wildfires and more violent storms?

ICYMI: Report: Energy Department scrambled to justify letting Solyndra’s private backers recoup losses before taxpayers

Why did the administration go to such lengths to help these private investors recoup their loses first? Administration officials have argued it was necessary to attract private capital to support the company. But they may have had another motivation. Argonaut is the investment vehicle The George Kaiser Family Foundation. Through it GKFF owned a 35% stake in Solyndra. Despite being called a foundation, GKFF is not a nonprofit in the conventional understanding of the term, but an exotic variation that allows the wealthy to park their assets tax-free. The foundation’s namesake is a major fundraiser of President Obama’s. He was often a guest in the White House and even discussed Solyndra with officials there.

Salt Lake City Airport | Musings from the Chiefio

If, on the other hand, airports tend to be located in broad lower valley areas where it is warmer than the surroundings, have large vertical mixing from the air traffic (that is warming on cold still nights) and has acres (hectares) of tarmac and concrete that are not as cooling as plants with transpiration; one would expect them to be a bit warmer than representative.

Man Made Hurricane Seasons | Real Science

By naming more clouds, NOAA can declare a record hurricane season every year – even if there weren’t any hurricanes.

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Amazing Antarctic cold next 16 days! pic.twitter.com/ZmugN85x

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DO not be fooled by climate clowns when hurricanes come a calling near the east coast like in the 1950s again