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[Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog] In that case the challenge becomes figuring out whom to trust. Personally I think the USGCRP is a strong source to get at the truth with minimal filtering and bias. They’re the people who are actively researching climate change, so I’m inclined to trust their findings more than what is shared by a politician who may have serious conflicts of interest based on who’s financially backing him/her.

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[Switchboard, from NRDC Ӽ Cai Steger's Blog] Switchboard, from NRDC :: Cai Steger's Blog :: Distorting Costs ...: Some sectors in certain regions are likely to bear sizable costs requiring significant adjustments and adaptations, and a few sectors in a few regions may be eliminated altogether...In addition, most of the published studies do not include all of the potential costs of climate change to the country over the coming century and beyond....Moreover, even for the levels of warming that have been examined, most of the estimates discussed above cover only a portion of the potential costs..." To me, this argues for a strong response - not that a 3% loss is a worse case scenario.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] China scraps mandated filtering software, at least temporarily ...: BEIJING - Customers purchasing computers in China will have the option of buying or not buying government-sponsored porn-filtering software, an official has said. The China Daily quoted the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)official as saying: "PC makers are only required to save the setup files of the program in the hard drives of the computers, or provide CD-ROMs containing the program with their PC packages."The users have the final say on the installation of the Green Dam-Youth Escort, so it is misleading to say the government compels PC users to use the software, the official clarified.

[Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy] Climate change affecting the U.S. « Legal Planet: Environmental ...: The US Global Change Research Program has just issued a report on Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. For people who have been paying attention, there's not much new here.

[First Thoughts] First Thoughts ”” A First Things Blog: The Chinese, brilliantly cynical, and joined by India and a number of African states, have hit upon a perfect non-starter: The climate problem was created by the West, the industrialized nations, so they should fix it, cutting their emissions to forty percent below 1990 levels, until the developing nations have had a chance to catch up. Anyway, Chinese per capita emissions are so far smaller than the West’s that to curb their development would be grossly unfair.

[The Blackboard] The Blackboard » US Climate Change Report Shows Surface ...: The Blackboard - Where Climate Talk Gets Hot! ... 2009 (09:23) | Data Comparisons Written by: lucia · The US Global Climate Change Research program published a report yesterday which included their graph comparing surface temperature observations to projections. Take a look: .... It seems like a smll thing but it's not if you consider that lowess filtering was probably used to make sure the recent temperatures have additional positive corrections applied. Good stuff. ...

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Why I Don't Write About Climate ...: Yeah, the stuff is nasty, toxic and radioactive as Hell, and it stays nasty, toxic and radioactive for a long time. On the other hand mine tailings and fly ash are nasty and toxic too, and fly ash should be regulated as low-level nuclear waste, but despite this they don’t generate the same shit your pants fear and outrage that nuclear waste does, even though the volume of waste from a coal burning power plant is enormous compared to that from a nuclear plant.

[Breaking News] House begins debate over climate change bill; votes expected to be ...: Former VP Gore endorses House global-warming billWASHINGTON ”” Former Vice President Al Gore, the leading American voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and take action to reduce greenhouse gases, calling the climate issue the most important ever before Congress. Gore told a House hearing that the Democratic bill that would limit carbon dioxide and other pollution linked to a warming of the earth will simultaneously solve the problems of the climate, economy and national security.

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