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Twitter / keithkloor..

So the climate fringe is coalescing around this 400ppm-is-good-for-us spin. I didn't think they could go further down the rabbit hole.

Twitter / keithkloor

I really wish the public discourse on global warming wasn't framed by #climate catastrophists and climate denialists.

Twitter / joabbess

@keithkloor That's *your* framing of the public discourse. What about a debate without demonisation inherent in it ? @ret_ward

Coal causes Suicide?! Claim: ‘North Carolina Coal Plant Emissions Might Play Role in State Suicide Numbers’ | Climate Depot

'New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finds that suicide, while strongly associated with psychiatric conditions, also correlates with environmental pollution...'This study raises interesting questions about suicide rates in counties where coal-fired electrical plants operate and suggests that the quality of air can affect people suffering from different mood disorders'

- Bishop Hill blog - Friends of the Earth say "save our funding"

Ever keen to give voice to the rent-seeking interest, the Guardian is reporting that Friends of the Earth are worried that the UK might leave the European Union.

The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg takes a fossil fueled trip to a remote Alaskan village to tell us recent global warming caused it to sink – but that’s not the cause | Watts Up With That?

But, when you look at Alaska as a whole in this graph from the Alaska Climate research Center, temperature is trending down since about 2000 and is below normal for 2012:

Both Sides in Climate War Blamed for Cherry-Picking Attribution Research | InsideClimate News

Several experts said skeptics need to understand that attribution research doesn't undermine the scientific consensus that greenhouse gases have increased due to fossil-fuel burning and other human activities, and that they're causing the climate to warm.