Global weirding? Hm, yeah that does have a nice ring to it.
From the NYTimes: Global Weirding is here.
Quotable bits:
"Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill."
"[T]he climate-science community should convene its top experts - from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre - and produce a simple 50-page report. They could call it “What We Know,” summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language that a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes.
At the same time, they should add a summary of all the errors and wild exaggerations made by the climate skeptics - and where they get their funding. (Emphasis mine.)"
"Nothing better serves [China's, Iran's, Russia's, Venezuela's and OPEC's] interests than to see Americans becoming confused about climate change, and, therefore, less inclined to move toward clean-tech and, therefore, more certain to remain addicted to oil."
/sniggers
I mean. Whut? /looks innocently around
Note to self: For more info, visit http://climateprogress.org/
Quotable bits:
"Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill."
"[T]he climate-science community should convene its top experts - from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre - and produce a simple 50-page report. They could call it “What We Know,” summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language that a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes.
At the same time, they should add a summary of all the errors and wild exaggerations made by the climate skeptics - and where they get their funding. (Emphasis mine.)"
"Nothing better serves [China's, Iran's, Russia's, Venezuela's and OPEC's] interests than to see Americans becoming confused about climate change, and, therefore, less inclined to move toward clean-tech and, therefore, more certain to remain addicted to oil."
/sniggers
I mean. Whut? /looks innocently around
Note to self: For more info, visit http://climateprogress.org/