The inability of climate change deniers to admit the possibility that the heat wave that baked the eastern U.S. for nearly two weeks might be connected to global warming has assumed absurd proportions. On Sunday, on ABC's "This Week," George Will waved off the possibility in his contemptuous way: “You asked us — how doContinue reading “Worst heat in 141 years: “It’s summer,” says George Will”
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Killer heat wave breaks Dust Bowl-era records
It's "folly" to blame the killer heat wave blanketing the eastern United States under misery on global warming, says climate change denier Anthony Watts, because, after all, the entire globe isn't suffering a heat wave. No, seriously: The is weather, not climate. It is caused by a persistent blocking high pressure pattern. In a day orContinue reading “Killer heat wave breaks Dust Bowl-era records”
Massive heat wave linked to Colorado fires heading east
At what point do we start to notice that our new climate isn't improved? Massive heat wave moving East: Washington Post
Self-regulation in the new climate: Tom Toles
From the master of climate 'tooning, a recent sketch: The sketch reflects the recent news from Colorado (where fires have been burning for weeks now, and could go on all summer, not to mention Utah, and New Mexico) and California and the West Coast, where sea level rise is accelerating, and is expected to reach five feetContinue reading “Self-regulation in the new climate: Tom Toles”
Popular denier waves off hottest spring in U.S. history
The multitudes at this site have been wondering how long it will take before the most popular of climate change deniers waves off the hottest spring in American history. It's been months. Well, the wait is over. Anthony Watts finally bothered to opine on the subject, cleverly mixing the minimization of the hottest spring andContinue reading “Popular denier waves off hottest spring in U.S. history”
GOP finds solution to global warming
From Tom Toles, in today's Washington Post: If only the GOP was even looking for a solution. Jeez. I wish.
Spring hottest ever: Greenhouse gas emissions on the rise
Acerbic lede from Dino Grandoni in the Atlantic Wire: In case, you know, you haven't been outside in the past three months, it's about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. Meanwhile CO2Continue reading “Spring hottest ever: Greenhouse gas emissions on the rise”
The moment when our leaders gave up on saving the world
Not my words, but those of Die Spiegel, the leading German publication, which released a recording of what was said inside the room among top leaders from around the world in Cophenhagen, in December 2009, in negotiations to save the climate. Their reporters wrote: The West, [then French President Nicholas] Sarkozy said, had pledged to reduceContinue reading “The moment when our leaders gave up on saving the world”
Is climate change impacting real estate in the Southwest?
In the United States today, according to the real estate site Zillow, the two cities in the most trouble are Phoenix, where a little more than half than half of all homeowners are underwater — where debt outweighs the equity — and Las Vegas, where an astounding 70% of homeowners are underwater. Is it aContinue reading “Is climate change impacting real estate in the Southwest?”
The Last Myth: the problem with apocalyptic warnings
From a new book about the perils of apocalyptic thinking called The Last Myth. To understand why fewer people believe in climate change even as evidence mounts, we must look beyond the industry-funded movement to deny the reality and effects of climate change. Perhaps equally important — if not quite equally culpable — has beenContinue reading “The Last Myth: the problem with apocalyptic warnings”
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