“Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods — all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address. “Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science — and act before it’s too late.”
Y2Kyoto: “You’ll See This Trend Continue”
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Corn Belt
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Disturbing Normalcy Of Arctic Ice Continues Unabated
Y2Kyoto: Earth Day
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Corn Belt
5,000 media scare stories later: Global Warming Not Significant in 2012 Drought
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Is President Obama waging a war on coal? Republicans say yes. Democrats deny it. Here’s what Bill McKibben, self-styled leader of America’s “fossil-fuel resistance,” has to say: “Recently, I had a long talk with an administration insider who kept telling me that, for the next decade, we should focus all our energies on ‘killing coal.'” Sounds like a war to me.
That wasn’t good enough for McKibben, who insisted that the administration would have “to put the same sort of thought and creative energy into killing oil and natural gas, too.” Now that’s creativity. Energy independence? “Last century’s worry,” says McKibben.
Y2Kyoto: “Remember 1979?”
… of “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, of “The Dukes of Hazard” on TV, and of ” Kramer vs. Kramer” on the silver screen. It was the year the Shah was forced out of Iran. It was before the web, before the personal computer, before the cell phone, before voicemail and answering machines. But not before the global warming campaign.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Via Andrew Bolt;
No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive…
Each year, an official estimate is made of the “excess winter mortality” – that is, the number of people dying of cold-related illnesses. Last winter was relatively mild, and still 24,000 perished. The indications are that this winter, which has dragged on so long and with such brutality, will claim 30,000 lives, making it one of the biggest killers in the country…
Y2Kyoto: Happy Easter
h/t PeterJ
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Germany Pays Billions to Delay Global Warming for 37 Hours – John Stossel interviews Bjorn Lomberg.
(h/t annoyed)
Y2Kyoto: How Baaaad Is The Warming?
Scenes From A Saskatchewan Blizzard
Whoops! It’s the UK! Luckily, they have lots and lots of giant fans.
(h/t Maz2, Michael)
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Timmy’s Drive-Thru Marathon
Join us on Saturday, March 23 at 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time on Tim Hortons oval tracks nationwide!
The Objective: To see how many circuits drivers can complete, ordering one Timbit at a time, within the one hour period allotted. The entry that collects the most Timbits in that hour shall be declared the winner.
| NOTICE: Contestants who order more than one Timbit per circuit will be in violation of contest rules, and shall be disqualified |  |
Readers without a Tim Hortons within driving distance may qualify for the alternate Hour Of Power Award; simply share your Human Achievement Hour story in the comments.
If I’m suitably impressed, I’ll send out some books.
Y2Kyoto: If You Don’t Believe In Global Warming
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Washington Post Eilperin emissions trick
Flashback: CBC Hues of the News
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
h/t Maz2