2014 a quiet year for weather disasters in the U.S. – ‘Deadly hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires — were few and far between’
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/12/29/natural-disaster-report/20853795/
CO2 data shows nobody’s dead from a little carbon dioxide – ‘A little CO2 won’t hurt you. A lot of CO2 won’t hurt you. You breathe out 40,000 ppm with every breath. Do you worry about California banning YOU from breathing out?’
http://www.examiner.com/article/co2-data-shows-nobody-s-dead-from-a-little-carbon-dioxide
World is ‘safer, richer and healthier than at any time on record’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/11310456/Goodbye-to-one-of-the-best-years-in-history.html
If You Lose Weight, You’re Destroying the Planet – but other studies claimed losing weight could help save the planet
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/if-you-lose-weight-youre-destroying-the-planet/
Climate change learning standards for W.Va. students altered by skeptics
http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20141228/GZ01/141229489/1419
The Benefits of Being Cold: ‘Year-round warmth is a modern luxury, and one that could be affecting body weight and health’
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/does-global-warming-make-me-look-fat/383509/?single_page=true
A salvo of silliness: Pope’s climate activism a ‘result of a workshop of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences’
A salvo of silliness http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/12/29/a-salvo-of-silliness.html The Pope, it seems, has decided to involve himself in the climate debate, apparently because he wants to ensure that the 2015 Paris summit is a success (if you can call condemning millions of people to destitution “a success”). Via Andy Revkin I also learn that the Pope’s new-found enthusiasm […]
‘Winter hell’: Snowstorm paralyzes major Russian highway
http://rt.com/news/218251-rostov-traffic-jam-snow/
Conservative Catholics Angry as Pope Plans to Issue Encyclical on Climate Change
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/29/conservative-catholics-angry-as-pope-plans-to-issue-encyclical-on-climate-change/