jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:I think Politico is worse than Redstate.

SPEAKING OF MONKEYCAGE LINKS, you saw their piece on Politico, huh?

GLOBAL warming has slowed. The rate of warming of over the past 15 years has been lower than that of the preceding 20 years. There is no serious doubt that our planet continues to heat, but it has heated less than most climate scientists had predicted. Nate Cohn of the New Republic reports: "Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century, temperatures have not kept up with computer models that seemed to project steady warming; they’re perilously close to falling beneath even the lowest projections".


Mr Cohn does his best to affirm that the urgent necessity of acting to retard warming has not abated, as does Brad Plumer of the Washington Post, as does this newspaper. But there's no way around the fact that this reprieve for the planet is bad news for proponents of policies, such as carbon taxes and emissions treaties, meant to slow warming by moderating the release of greenhouse gases. The reality is that the already meagre prospects of these policies, in America at least, will be devastated if temperatures do fall outside the lower bound of the projections that environmentalists have used to create a panicked sense of emergency. Whether or not dramatic climate-policy interventions remain advisable, they will become harder, if not impossible, to sell to the public, which will feel, not unreasonably, that the scientific and media establishment has cried wolf.

Dramatic warming may exact a terrible price in terms of human welfare, especially in poorer countries. But cutting emissions enough to put a real dent in warming may also put a real dent in economic growth. This could also exact a terrible humanitarian price, especially in poorer countries.

jerseyhoya wrote:A Cooling Consensus

The Nightman Cometh wrote:Good to read that people are too stupid to understand that climate change has more implications than rising temperatures.

dajafi wrote:Maybe this is why the military has such a relatively high level of trust amongst American institutions--they're more empirically oriented than most of the other ones.

MOSCOW — An Aeroflot flight from Hong Kong believed to be carrying Edward Snowden, the former contractor who leaked top-secret documents about about U.S. surveillance programs, landed at Sheremetyevo International Airport on Sunday. Snowden left Hong Kong “on his own accord for a third country,” the government in Hong Kong said Sunday afternoon.

Snowden’s final destination is unclear. Russian news agency Interfax and Radio Ekho Moskvy reported that Snowden was booked on a flight to Cuba and then from Havana to Caracas, Venezuela. The next Aeroflot flight to Havana leaves Monday. Ecuador and Iceland have also been mentioned as possibilities.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:Good to read that people are too stupid to understand that climate change has more implications than rising temperatures.

Luzinski's Gut wrote:Yes, he's a true patriot. Not.