Open Mind: Western Sizzlin’

The author of Open Mind writes a great piece regarding regional cold spells and how they do not contradict climate change (read: global warming).

…If we want to study global warming we should pay more attention to the globe than to less than 2% of it; second, that global warming is about climate, and that even if climate changes we’re still gonna have weather.

The real sign of global warming is in the trends, not the momentary hot or cold spells. The real danger of global warming is that it brings with it fundamental changes in a great many environmental variables, including one that is fundamental to human survival: water.

Greenfyre’s: Global Warming is over! once every decade or so …

On a related note, this post drew my attention to the Open Mind piece, and the author shows some temperature trends – Surprise! Earth’s temperature does cycle every decade or so, but the downward cycles have not been compensating for the upward trends during the past forty years.

The author also takes a hard look at the consequences to poverty-stricken peoples of the effect cliate change has on fresh water availability.



Ars Technica: Broadband, green tech get love from Obama recovery plan

"As we renew our schools and highways, we'll also renew our information superhighway," said Obama. "It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption.”

and

What Obama called "the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen" would be part of a broader effort to deploy energy efficient technology in public facilities. "Our government now pays the highest energy bills in the world," said Obama. "We need to change that."

Tags: environment, politics