climate change issues

The Climate Change Election - http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/08/14/the-2016-election-is-critical-for-stopping-climate-change What is at stake here isn’t the relevance of science, it is the relevance of politics (public policy) in the U. S. that is at stake.

It's commendable that the Pope enters the AGW debate, but sad that he also seems to ignore the most fundamental reason of all, for which the Catholic church has major responsibility. Namely that fossil fuels are not the primary problem, but population growth is. There are not enough resources...

Since this fire is currently only a few miles away from my house I have much interest in it. And I ran into the following comments from this MSNBC article. First off it seems that it is the namby pamby hippies fault San Francisco gets its water and electricity from the Sierra Nevada. Note...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/may/13/newtok-alaska-climate-change-refugees

California is about to embark on a new $14 billion water project involving two 11 meter diameter tunnels 40 miles long underneath the expansive marshy delta region. This is the first in what might be expected to be numerous projects to address the growing issues over water reliability in the...

From SkS: Peter Wehner has impeccable conservative credentials, having served under Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and most recently, as deputy assistant to Pres. George W. Bush. He resides at the "Ethics & Public Policy Center," a neo-con think tank. After a long look at the evidence, Wehner...

If you live in the UK, that is. I expect the same holds for the USA midwest and Canada. And Russia. Global warming 'may cut deaths' BBC

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bush-rejects-kyotostyle-climate-deal/2005/07/04/1120329360516.html There is nothing in Kyoto that stops him from using new technology to reduce emissions, in fact, I thought that was the intent behind it. Is Dubya now doing what Australia did, not signing...

I happened across a thread in another forum and discovered that the recent paper by McIntyre and McKitrick have perculated up to some interestingly high and influential places. Namely, The Committee on Energy and Commerce. Several letters officially requesting answers from Mann, et al, can be...

article What, me worry?

McIntrye's site Seems Nature's peer review wasn't up to snuff on Mann's hockeystick paper. It also seems that those that pooh-poohed the McIntyre & McKitrick assessment that I mentioned in this thread because it was published in Energy & Environment instead of Nature, might wish to...

Despite the Bush Administration's Revisionist Science, apparently someone realizes that physics trumps politics every time. _______________________ Oil chief: my fears for planet Shell boss's 'confession' shocks industry David Adam, science correspondent Thursday June 17, 2004 The Guardian...