Southern Sea Ice Area Minimum 2nd Highest on Record | Watts Up With That?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/01/southern-sea-ice-area-minimum-2nd-highest-on-record/…
All ‘Solutions’ Are Futile: US & UK Science Academies: Cutting all CO2 emissions would not stop global warming: ‘Essentially irreversible on human timescales’
If the world had a giant thermostat, who would control the weather?
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/21/if-the-world-hadagiantthermostatwhowouldcontroltheweather.html…
Der Spiegel On 15-Year Pause: ‘Biggest Mystery In Climate Science’
…WSJ: Why climate-change activists are losing the battle for public opinion: ‘The cause of global carbon regulation may be lost, but enemies still can be punished’
WSJ: Why climate-change activists are losing the battle for public opinion
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/03/wsj-why-climate-change-activists-are.html
Jenkins: Personal Score-Settling Is the New Climate Agenda
The cause of global carbon regulation may be lost, but enemies still can be punished.
Business World columnist Holman Jenkins Jr. on why climate-change activists are losing the battle for public opinion
By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.Feb. 28, 2014 6:56 p.m. ET THE WALL STREET JOURNALSurely, some kind of ending is upon us. Last week climate protesters demanded the silencing of Charles Krauthammer for a Washington Post column that notices uncertainties in the global warming hypothesis. In coming weeks a libel trial gets under way brought by Penn State’s Michael Mann, author of the famed hockey stick, against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writer Rand Simberg and roving commentator Mark Steyn for making wisecracks about his climate work. The New York Times runs a cartoon of a climate “denier” being stabbed with an icicle.These are indications of a political movement turned to defending its self-image as its cause goes down the drain. That’s how thoroughly defunct, dead, expired is the idea that humanity might take charge of earth’s atmosphere through some supreme triumph of the global regulatory state over democracy, sovereignty, nationalism and political self-interest, the very facts of political human nature.Let’s restate more accurately a plan recently announced by Thomas Steyer, a California hedge-fund billionaire whose idea is to make the coming midterms about climate change: He would spend $100 million to flog an issue voters don’t care about, to defeat Republicans whose defeat would have no impact on climate change, in order to replace them with Democrats whose election would have no impact on climate change.Mr. Steyer’s thinking is puzzling unless his goal is to make $100 million disappear. If his purpose were to elect Democrats, wouldn’t his money go further attacking Republicans on matters of interest to voters? If he wants to move the ball on climate change, wouldn’t a better place to start be undoing the damage his fellow climate lobbyists have done to the cause with their hysterical exaggerations, false statements and moral bullying?He could begin by running ads leveling with Americans about climate science. We know with comfortable certainty that human industry is adding to carbon dioxide, a so-called greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere. An insoluble noise-to-signal problem, though, is how much the human component may have influenced climate change already. And forecasts …