If there is one topic that illustrates the state of climate science it is that of the so-called “pause” or hiatus – the observational fact that global surface annual average temperatures, as well as satellite data on the lower troposphere, hasn’t changed for a decade or more.

'Among many climate scientists, gloom has set in. Things are worse than we think, but they can't really talk about it'

Warmist Jason Box flees America due to 'climate denial' : 'He and his family left Ohio State for Europe a couple years ago, and he is relieved to have escaped America's culture of climate-change denial.'

ARCTIC CARBON RELEASE COULD MEAN "WE'RE F*CKED."Box sees 'seventy-foot rise in sea levels over the next few centuries was probably already 'baked into the system.'

At the darkest end of the spectrum are groups like Deep Green Resistance, which openly advocates sabotage to "industrial infrastructure," 

Warmist vs. Warmist: NASA's Gavin Schmidt: 'I don't agree. I don't think we're f*cked...'Oh, we're f*cked! Just give up now, just kill me now,' that's just stupid...There is time to build sustainable solutions to a lot of these things. You don't have to close down all the coal-powered stations tomorrow. You can transition. It sounds cute to say, 'Oh, we're f*cked and there's nothing we can do,' but it's a bit of a nihilistic attitude. We always have the choice. We can continue to make worse decisions, or we can try to make ever better decisions.'

Flashback 2010: Esquire Mag. Profiles Climate Depot’s Morano in 6500 Word Feature Article: ‘This Man Wants to Convince You Global Warming is a Hoax…He seems to be winning’

“I say this to Obama: ‘Excuse me, Mr. President, but you’re wrong.’ He’s dead wrong,” Mr. Giaever said in a video of his 30-minute speech posted on the website Climate Depot, which first reported the story.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist behind Laudato Si, is an activist for a global state run by “enlightened” elites.

The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis: The scientist who influenced Laudato Si, and who serves at the Vatican's science office, seems to believe in Gaia, but not in God.

Wicker's amendment does not mandate that schools teach climate change in any particular way or even that they teach climate change at all. But the fact that it has surfaced as part of the debate over a much broader education bill speaks to the growing controversy over climate education.

The UN has established the Global Goals for Sustainable Development...In an effort to broaden the impact of the U.N.’s efforts, she says, “The sustainable development agenda looks at the links between the social, environmental and economic agendas so it presents more opportunities than the MDGs, which focused purely on the social agenda.”

CNN's John D. Sutter: 'We can't ignore climate change skeptics -- even if we really, really want to' 

The governor said the world needs to make significant changes in order to prevent an irreversible "tipping point" in the environment, and he compared the situation to the sinking of the Titanic. “The music was playing. They were all in their finest clothing. But the damn thing went down," he said. “We’re talking about something like that for the whole human experiment.” Brown said the threats from climate change are grave and numerous: “Migration, hunger, war, a major assault on civilization as we know it. The stakes couldn’t be higher, even though they’re not immediate.”

"I would say that basically global warming is a non-problem," Dr. Ivar Giaever announced during a speech at the 65th Nobel Laureate Conference in Lindau, Germany, last week, according to Climate Depot.

Emails reveal liberal think tank’s climate strategy director advised top EPA officials on dealing with skeptical reporter

'When Americans fire up their grills on Independence Day, they'll dump up to 882 million pounds of carbon pollution into the atmosphere—the equivalent of burning 2,145 railcars of coal. And that doesn’t even include the carbon burned just by driving to July 4 celebrations or the pollution that leeches from fireworks displays. - Red meat has the biggest environmental footprint, which is largely a result from the methane produced by cow digestion and manure. Methane is anywhere between 25 to 36 times more potent than carbon over 100 years.'

The Pontiff inviting Brown as a speaker comes as an unpleasant surprise to many Catholics. The governor, who earlier in life practiced to be a Jesuit priest before having a change of heart, is well known for his liberal stance on abortion, advocacy for gay marriage, and LGBTQ issues.

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Some reports suggested the pope told Morales "This isn't good;" one of Francis' friends sent a tweet quoting him as saying such. But Lombardi said it wasn't known what the pope had said. Lombardi said Espinal had designed the crucifix as a symbol of dialogue and commitment to freedom and progress for Bolivia, not with any specific ideology in mind. Lombardi said he personally wasn't offended by it.

While media have questioned Pope Francis’ political ideology, here’s one thing he won’t do: accept a communist crucifix. Shortly after arriving in Bolivia, in the presidential palace, President Evo Morales handed Pope Francis a gift: a crucifix carved in the shape of a hammer and sickle.  Pope Francis responded, “That’s not right,” or, "no está bien eso,” in Spanish. ACI Prensa, sister agency to Catholic News Agency, posted a Vine on the exchange

For a Republican from Florida, Rep. Curt Clawson does not sound like a Republican from Florida — at least when it comes to human-caused climate change. The freshman Tea Party Congressman said he’d rather not have that debate, and instead talk about solutions. “All the chatter about is climate change real or not, I’m not sure how that helps my constituents,” said Clawson, whose district includes areas of South Florida that are particularly susceptible to sea level rise and storm surge. “I’d just like to be prepared for the next hurricane.”

'Some of the world’s worst historic episodes of pollution happened in communist countries...The management of the environment in communist countries has been and continues to be much worse than in capitalist ones...We cannot blame capitalism for pollution and other environmental disasters.' 

Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian known for anti-imperialist and socialist rhetoric, will greet Francis at the airport and join him for a speech to local officials and diplomats before the pontiff goes to the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz.