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(This post was written to respond to Don's Twitter question here ) Don, off the top of my head, here are some things I believe: 1. CO2 is a greenhouse gas 2. Greenhouse gases have a warming effect 3. Human activity has caused atmospheric CO2 to increase over the last 100+ years 4. The Earth warmed during the 20th century 5. Global sea levels rose about 7.5 inches since 1901 6. We can't burn fossil fuels forever without running out 7. Alternative energy research is a good thing 8. Energy efficiency is a good thing 9. Destroying the environment is a bad thing 10. I want the best, safest world possible for future generations Some things I don't believe: 11. The Earth is a more dangerous place at 61F than at 59F. 12. Carbon dioxide taxes can prevent bad weather 13. Increased CO2 causes drought If the hard evidence supported the idea that trace CO2 is dangerous, I would be fighting very hard ON YOUR SIDE. CO2 hysteria risks making energy less available and affordable for poor pe...

Skeptically mapping why Big-government research is often a waste of money « JoNova "If anyone was hoping to find the Grand-Poo-Bah of climate skeptics at the centre of the string-art puzzle in Black and White, I have bad news. There is no private JournoList (or SkeptoList) where we discuss strategic moves and adopt new key phrases in the PR war. There is no hub where original content gets produced by Exxon researchers and dished out in waves to each key site. The skeptics network is organic,  evolving, competitive, cooperative, and above all aimed at finding the truth. That’s why it’s winning."

Christiana Figueres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Christiana Figueres has not only been active in the public arena and in the field of NGOs, she also collaborates actively with private sector companies that align themselves with climate friendly goals. Ms. Figueres served as Senior Adviser to C-Quest Capital, a carbon finance company focusing on programmatic CDM investments.[35] She was the Principal Climate Change Advisor to ENDESA Latinoamérica, the largest private utility in Latin America with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. She was also Vice Chair of the Rating Committee of the Carbon Rating Agency, the first entity to apply credit rating expertise to carbon assets"

Jean-Pascal Van Ypersele, Vice-chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "I have been chairing the Energy and Climate Working Group of the Belgian Federal (advisory) Council for Sustainable Development since 1998. This has allowed me to practise consensus-building in a group with stakeholders of very diverse interests and opinions (including electricity producers, employers, trade unions, environment and development NGOs)."

Living on Earth: Climate Change Here and Now Mann: "Climate change is already a threat to national security. There’s increased conflict...essentially, a perfect storm for intense conflict and threats to national security... ...that 13-foot [Sandy] surge that flooded a large part of Manhattan, at least one of those 13 feet was due to human caused global warming...we are already seeing climate change take a great toll on our economy here in the U.S...We know that even a little bit of warming in tropical regions leads to a very sharp decrease in agricultural productivity ...if we see seven degrees Fahrenheit warming of the planet, which is within range of the projections if we continue with business as usual fossil fuel burning, then many regions of the globe will literally be unlivable ...you could be forgiven for mistaking this report for a post-apocalyptic plot that Hollywood had written about it."

Obama Talks Climate Change in James Cameron's Showtime Documentary "In what is likely a first for a Showtime series, the program's content was vetted by a panel of nine climate scientists, including Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress and Climate Progress blog, Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, and Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University."