Climate tweets for 4 April 2014

UN climate report: Pricing of CO2 emissions critical: @physorg_com http://phys.org/news/2014-04-climate-pricing-co2-emissions-critical.html 
[investing, divestment]

.@NBCNews slates 1-hour special Sunday on ... climate change!!: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/ann-curry-climate-change-network-news-nbc-abc-cnn-fox_n_5090207.html?ncid=3Dfcbklnkushpmg00000018 
[journalism]

Video: Climate science crash course by @dana1981 with @CitizensClimate: http://www.skepticalscience.com/video-climate-science-crash-course-dana-ccl.html 

RT Climate Bloggers ‏@climatebloggers:
World’s biggest investment fund doubles investments in renewables: 
http://bit.ly/1q5NuuS 
[Norway, investing, divestment]

Climate change will 'lead to battles for food', says head of @WorldBank: @guardian: 
http://gu.com/p/3z6bn/tw

ExxonMobil has 25B barrels of fossil fuel, plans to extract it all: @motherjones: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/exxon-climate-change-regulations 
[oil, investing, divestment]

Death Valley: One of few places in California not in extreme drought: @ericholthaus http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/04/death_valley_one_of_the_few_places_in_california_not_in_extreme_drought.html 

Warming Temperatures Could Dry Out 1/3 of Planet: @ClimateCentral http://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-temperatures-could-dry-out-one-third-of-planet-17249
[drought, food, farming, agriculture]

Climate tweets for 10 March 2014

Angry Australian summers will just get madder, scientists warn: @smh http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/angry-summers-will-just-get-madder-scientists-warn-20140309-34fhr.html 

Senators will be up all night calling for climate action. Will you add your voice? http://act.350.org/sign/wake_up_congress/ … #Up4Climate

The Red Faces of the Solar Skeptics: @nytimes http://nyti.ms/1qoaGpn 

Public Transit Climate Shifting: Use In U.S. At 57-Year High, Report Finds: http://thkpr.gs/1loKEys 

RT Chris Riedy ‏@chrisjriedy: This @climatecouncil infographic captures it all. Another #AngrySummer of heat, fire & drought as Oz climate changes 
http://pic.twitter.com/WdcL3pdRhL

.@SenWhitehouse to lead 28 colleagues in marathon soliloquy on global warming: @projo http://shar.es/Rum2E 

RT Sheldon Whitehouse ‏@SenWhitehouse: Congress needs to wake up and take action on climate change. RT if you agree. #Up4Climate http://pic.twitter.com/sDADJAZ47y

RT Senator Harry Reid ‏@SenatorReid: It's time to stop acting like deniers – like the Koch brothers and those addicted to them – have a valid point of view. #Up4Climate

RT Sierra Club ‏@sierraclub: "Climate change is urgent, solvable, human-caused, and real." -Sen. Schatz (@brianschatz) #Up4Climate #ActOnClimate

RT Dana Nuccitelli ‏@dana1981: .@neiltyson tells @CNN: Stop giving ‘equal time to the flat Earthers’ | The Raw Story http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/09/neil-degrasse-tyson-tells-cnn-stop-giving-equal-time-to-the-flat-earthers/#.Ux5RJ6uE4Pg.twitter …

RT Ron Wyden ‏@RonWyden: On my way to the Senate floor now to call for action on climate change. Tweet #Up4Climate to let Congress know inaction is not an option.

Denier think tank optimism on climate sensitivity ill-founded: @dana1981 http://www.skepticalscience.com/gwpf-lewis-crock-climate-sensitivity-optimism-ill-founded.html 

RT Kate Sheppard ‏@kate_sheppard: If I had known @InhofePress was going to give a speech, I would have made a bingo card. Al Gore! Climategate! It's cold outside! #Up4Climate

Editorial: Climate change: Weather of Olympian extremes: @guardian http://gu.com/p/3mtd9/tw  

Why Martin Hoerling is off base (in NYT op-ed) on California drought: Open Mind http://tamino.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/california-drought/ 

State Dept KeystoneXL Review Assumes 'Global Failure to Address #Climate Change': http://insideclimatenews.org/content/state-dept-keystone-review-assumes-global-failure-address-climate-change … #NoKXL 

RT Andrew Dessler ‏@AndrewDessler: Important paper by Drew Shindell; explains low values of sensitivity from 20th century obs.; bad day to be a skeptic http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2136.html 

Wall Street Journal – Dr. William Happer is Wrong Again

The following is cross-posted with permission from Scott Mandia's excellent blog, Global Warming: Man or Myth?

Letter sent to Wall Street Journal on March 27, 2012, in reply to Dr. William Happer’s op-ed: Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again which should have been titled “Dr. William Happer is Wrong Again”. My LTE has not been published. I am not surprised.

Scientists tell us that heat-trapping carbon emissions are rising, as are global temperatures, sea levels and the risks associated with climate change. But regular readers of the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page are likely to have exactly the opposite impression. 

By my count, over more than a two year period starting in late 2008, the Journal published only 4 opinion pieces that supported the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, but 39 that questioned it, attacked scientists or otherwise misrepresented scientific findings. Those trends have continued in recent months. Meanwhile, 97 percent of publishing climate scientists agree that human activities are significantly altering our climate. And our own National Academy of Sciences tells us, “Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for—and in many cases is already affecting—a broad range of human and natural systems.” 

The latest op-ed attempting to contradict the science is from physicist William Happer who makes the classic mistake of cherry-picking an individual year and counting forward from there to make spurious claims about global temperature trends. 

In reality, the past 35 years have all been hotter than average globally, meaning half of all Americans have never even lived during a year with average or below-average temperatures. Four independent scientific agencies confirm the unmistakable warming trend, as did an analysis (the BEST project) from a former climate change skeptic. 

The Journal’s readers would benefit from more high-quality information about the science and less spin from ideologues. 

Sincerely,
Scott A. Mandia, Professor & Asst. Chair – Physical SciencesT-202 Smithtown Science Bldg., S.C.C.C.533 College Rd.Selden, NY  11784

[For a detailed scientific demolition of Dr. Happer's claims, see Yes, Happer and Spencer, Global Warming Continues by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science.]