‘Just World News’ with Helena Cobban: Bush blinks, Bali succeeds!: Climate change is one crucial arena– along with nuclear weapons– in which the wellbeing and survival of US citizens are seen as very clearly inter-reliant with the survival and wellbeing of the rest of the world’s 6 billion people. We are all in this frail  Read more »

Taipei Times – archives: However, I believe that Stern’s fundamental conclusion is justified: We are much better off reducing carbon dioxide emissions substantially than risking the consequences of failing to act, even if, unlike Stern, one heavily discounts uncertainty and the future. Two factors differentiate global climate change from other environmental problems. First, whereas most  Read more »

Angry Bear: And after the Seventh Great Extinction…. … There is little doubt in my mind that we are set on a path that will require geo-engineering and bioengineering on a scale that only gods should contemplate. I am not interested in the moral dilemma of Faust or the hubris in creating our own Tower  Read more »

More on that post I made the other day qabout the edited CDC report. Full Version of White House "Edited" CDC Climate Report – with highlights! | DeSmogBlog "Edits" does not even come close to describing the grammatical massacre the White House undertook with CDC Director Julie Gerberding’s Senate testimony on the public health effects  Read more »

I  came across this earlier and it just reminded me of the Fox News claims of being "Fair and Balanced". Heavy Editing Is Alleged In Climate Testimony – washingtonpost.com: Testimony that the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to give yesterday to a Senate committee about the impact of climate change  Read more »