"Catastrophic" Heat Wave Burning up Australia (via Environment and Climate)

The Australian Prime Minister warns of more extreme weather to come. Every Australian knows well the smell of burning Eucalyptus. As a kid, I remember filling bathtubs and hosing the house as embers flew overhead and the lawn turned grey with ash. The family photo albums practically lived for one month…

Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts or Funding

Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts or Funding (via Skeptical Science)

Posted on 15 December 2012 by John Hartz The following article is reprinted by permission of its author, Stephen Leahy,  who writes for the Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency. To access the article as posted on the IPS website, click here. As sea erosion worsens, coastal residents in Nhon Hai…

Doha Climate Talks Bury International Climate Action in the Desert

Doha Climate Talks Bury International Climate Action in the Desert (via World Wildlife Fund)

DOHA, QATAR – Today - On Thursday, six of the largest and most respected environmental and development organizations in the world issued an emergency call to governments, that any deal in Doha must meet the acid test – does it reduce emissions, provide public climate finance and ensure a future…

Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate

Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate (via sustainablog)

By Lester R. Brown We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion…

The greatest barrier to public recognition of human-made climate change...

The New Climate Dice: Public Perception of Climate Change (via Skeptical Science)

Posted on 14 August 2012 by Daniel Bailey, John Hartz NOTE: This is a repost of a NASA Science Brief by James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy — August 2012.  The SkS analysis of this paper is available here. The greatest barrier to public recognition of human-made climate change is probably the…

US Generals explain why climate change is a global problem

The reality of climate change can no longer be ignored (via GlobalPost)

Commentary: US Generals explain why it is a global problem requiring global solutions. Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, USA (Ret.), Brigadier General Steve Anderson, USA (Ret.) and Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, USMC (Ret.) Last week, Hurricane Sandy put climate change back in the political…

The climate science debate is over

Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility - In One Pie Chart (via Desmogblog)

This is a guest post by James Lawrence Powell.* Polls show that many members of the public believe that scientists substantially disagree about human-caused global warming. The gold standard of science is the peer-reviewed literature. If there is disagreement among scientists, based not on opinion…