Quick hits:
- A twofer at Climate Progress. Joe Romm takes out the amazingly self-impressedly moronic Gregg Easterbrook (granted, not that tough, ever) and his deep thoughts about the feds and energy conservation and then highlights the very real (and Delphic) connection between Darfur and global warming.
- Meanwhile, RealClimate checks in with a perfect example of how news media with an agenda distorts and misleads, using a proponent of global warming reality to make the skeptical and deluded case against it.
- David Roberts at Grist shows how, if ongoing frames for interpretation aren't changed quickly, we'll box ourselves in with things like more and more coal-fired power plants simply because we can't think outside the historical paradigm.
- More great news. Global warming is pressing "African" diseases northward. Good thing none of those illnesses can cross our oceans.
- Global warming, schmobal warming. Just the CO2 buildup alone, with its subsequent acidification of the oceans, would be enough to justify a major effort to cut the emissions.
- And then there are the monsoons that will likely become less frequent in India as global warming intensifies. At least they're trying to do something now before it hits, unlike some other nations I could live in.
- ID's governor is trying hard to pull the competing water interests in the state together, with the emphasis on more conservation by all of them, before the planting season hits and katie bar the door. Nice unanticipated interaction here between weather, water, and energy--because of the need for more fuel, ethanol is driving up the price of corn, which requires more water than other crops and will lead to more global warming, which will cause more water shortages in the West . . . And people claim they can predict just how far all this will unroll. Geez.
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