More Entertainment From The US Drought Monitor | Real Science

Never mind that Fort Collins is the greenest I have ever seen it in August. We are apparently having either a severe or extreme drought. Arizona and Arkansas have also been getting heavy rain, but the government says that they are about to shrivel up and blow away.

First U.N. climate fund board meeting set for August 23 | Reuters

(Reuters) - The first board meeting of the United Nations' Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be held on August 23 to 25, an official at the fund's interim secretariat said on Thursday, five months later than it was originally planned.

The fund is designed to help channel up to $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020 to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

However, the fund is an empty shell after last year's U.N. climate talks failed to make solid progress on sources of finance and the global economic crisis has left rich nations reluctant to commit cash, prompting fears the money may not emerge in time.

Off-grid power shines in India solar village | Reuters

The country's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) hopes solar systems that bypass the national grid will account for just under one percent of total installed capacity by 2022. Still a mere flicker

Chris Mooney | Are Conservatives Inherently More Biased than Liberals? The Scientific Debate Rages On

yet nevertheless, in modern American politics, conservatives overwhelmingly seem to hold more politically convenient but factually wrong beliefs—so what is up with that?

At the close of the book, I report a new experiment designed by political scientist Everett Young, conducted at Louisiana State University, trying to solve this riddle. We set up an experimental design to test whether conservatives engage in more motivated reasoning than liberals—and the data did not confirm the hypothesis.

ENVIRONMENT BIG ISSUE FOR [Only] 30% OF LIKELY VOTERS | UTSanDiego.com

Environmental issues probably won’t overtake the economy as the top priority in November’s presidential election, but 30 percent of likely California voters said in a poll released Wednesday that green topics play a very important role in their choice for the nation’s top job.