Huh? USA Today Hypes Insurance Company's Claims: Global Warming 'Targeting' America | NewsBusters.org

Rice didn't explain the credentials of Munich Re or its scientific background. For a study dealing with climate change, the company is hardly objective. Their website declares: "It is one of the greatest risks facing mankind. In recent years, Munich Re has actively supported and advanced climate protection and adaptation to global warming."

How can an organization both investigate climate change and, at the same time, advocate for legislation?

Antarctic ice map may hold clues to global warming | Reuters

"The ice thickness is regarded amongst climate scientists as the holy grail of determining changes in the system," Antarctic marine glaciologist Jan Lieser told Reuters.

"If we can determine the change in the thickness of the sea ice we can estimate the rate of change that is due to global warming."

How’s that big carbon-capture push going? Slowly. Too slowly.

no one has yet figured out how to effectively capture and bury emissions from coal-fired power plants — a tantalizing idea that could have a huge impact around the world. If it could ever work.

Tim Profeta: The Climate Post: Experts Debate Link Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather

"Thirty years is not an appropriate length of time for a climate analysis, much less finding causal factors like climate change," said Roger Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado.