Can climate change swing the election? - Salon.com

some caution may be required.

First, it’s not so clear that voters really care all that much about climate change. A recent Pew survey found that when swing state voters were polled on what they felt were the most important issues, “energy policy” came in 9th. Even worse, the percentage of all voters surveyed who rated energy policy as “very important” fell from 77 percent in 2008 to 55 percent in 2012 –”near the bottom of the voting priorities list.”

Consultant calculated Mumbai’s garbage by applying US formula, News - City - Mumbai Mirror

The reason behind the BMC's gross overestimation of generation of carbon credits from the Gorai dumping ground is out: the civic body, it seems, calculates Mumbai's garbage by American standards.

The ripple global effects of climate change | Radu Suceveanu

Oregon Live: Twelve-year-old Olivia Chernaik and 16-year-old Kelsey Juliana are suing Oregon. The reason? They say the state is violating the public trust by failing to take adequate steps to prevent climate change.
“I don’t want to live in a wasteland caused by climate change,” Olivia told reporters last month after filing an appeal in the case.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows how natural variability controls North Atlantic climate

A new paper published in Nature Geoscience reconstructs the North Atlantic Oscillation, a natural climate phenomenon that is the "dominant mode of atmospheric variability" of the North Atlantic region. The authors find that over the past 5,200 years, when the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index is positive, "Europe and the eastern US are mild and wet, whereas Greenland and northern Canada are cold and dry. A negative index is associated with the reverse pattern." The authors also show that modern measurements of the summer NAO index have been strongly negative since about 2005, and thus, Greenland and northern Canada would be expected to be relatively warm and wet relative to Europe and the eastern US. Once again, natural climatic variations such as the NAO have been shown to dominate climate, not greenhouse gases.