Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Guardian Weekly Letters, 4 May 2018

Source: The Guardian
Details: Media focus on rising sea levels as an element of climate change is intriguing (13 April); by the time sea levels rise significantly it will be all over for life as we know it. The urgency of global warming can be seen more immediately in Cape Town's water supply debacle and fantastically above-average ...

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Good news on climate change and the US energy picture

Source: Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Details: What was it that caused the recent important news about climate change to not be widely distributed? Normally, when data show a new hottest year on record; or a big increase over the previous month, or the same month in the previous year; or represent a sequence of warming months or years, that's a ...

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Blu-ray Review: 'Tremors 6' Pits Survivalist Against Global Warming Worms

Source: Forbes
Details: It's hard to fathom that an $11 million movie from 1990 that only originally grossed $16 million has somehow spawned five direct-to-video sequels, a TV series, and a second TV series that just got pre-emptively canceled, but welcome to the wacky property that is Tremors. Beginning as a minor Kevin ...

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Moon-Kim summit to Modi-Xi dialogue: Days of disruptive diplomacy are here

Source: Economic Times
Details: For the first time, the world is experiencing ice-breaking events that are not attributable to global warming. But they are definitely related to warming of another kind. There has been a sudden surge of warming of bilateral and one-to-one interactions among nations. Multilateralism is on the back-burner, ...

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ABC report calling Tony Abbott 'destructive' found to have breached code

Source: The Guardian
Details: In Probyn's report on the former prime minister's speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation thinktank, he said: “Tony Abbott, already the most destructive politician of his generation, now intends waging war on what he calls 'environmental theology'. “If this tells us anything, it's that Malcolm Turnbull ...

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