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The US never did anything good until her husband took over.

Gov. Jerry Brown told attendees at an environmental conference Friday that climate change must be prevented or humans might one day be forced to live on another planet.

The Democratic governor said future generations will be living “indoors … or we’ll be living on some other planet.”

Brown defends steps to fight climate change

Mars has 95% CO2 in their atmosphere, compared to 0.04% on Earth, so Mars seems like a sensible place to move to get away from CO2. It will clearly be much easier to adapt to the climate of Mars, than survive a 0.7 degree temperature change on Earth.

Governor Brown might totally recall that his predecessor in Sacramento took a trip to Mars in 1990, and found the planet somewhat lacking, but terraformable.

Arnie later abandoned his Mars plans in favor of impregnating his housekeeper.

Prior to Arnie’s 1990 Mars trip, leading scientists had already recognized that Mars was a lovely green place.

11 Aug 1925 – Life on Mars

h/t to Marc Morano

The Guardian says that American fossil fuels will save the planet from terrorist supporting regimes.

American energy independence looks likely to trigger the next great geopolitical shift in the modern world.

The US is the home to vast shale oil and gas deposits made commercially viable by improvements to a 200-year-old technique called fracking and by the relentlessly high cost of crude.

Long-term consequences for the rest of the world are hard to predict but it is probably safe to say that many of the regimes whose global role rests on hydrocarbons alone are likely to be significantly weakened, if not swept away.

How cheap energy from shale will reshape America’s role in the world | Environment | The Guardian

The Guardian also says that American fossil fuels have doomed the planet, and it is too late to do anything about it.

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added

President Obama ‘has four years to save Earth’ | Environment | The Observer

Susan Rice and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the two people most often mentioned for the position, are well-qualified. Were the president to choose either of them, the Senate should vote to confirm.  But the idea that Rice should be disqualified because of statements she made on television in the days after the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, strikes me as unfair.

It seems pretty clear now that she based her statements on information the CIA provided at the time. That information proved erroneous, and why the CIA was giving faulty information to senior administration officials remains unclear. I haven’t seen persuasive evidence to support the theory that Rice’s statements were part of a cover up to hide a terrorist attack. The fact that Rice was working from information provided by the CIA would seem to undercut such a theory.

Robert Kagan: Scapegoating Susan Rice does America no good – The Washington Post

Obama and Candy Crowley say that Obama knew it was a terrorist attack on September 12.  Then the White House tried to blame it on YouTube, apologized to the Islamic world for the video,  and even jailed the person who made the video.

The Greenland Country Club is still reeling from being barely above freezing for a couple of hours this summer.

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The good news is that tee times are available for Friday, though temperatures in the morning are forecast to be cool and breezy.

Weather Forecast Summit, Greenland | Summit Weather | Wunderground

Autumn snow extent in Eurasia is the greatest recorded since the start of the modern satellite era in 1979, and has increased by 20%.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Climate experts tell us that declining snow cover over the last 30 years is making global warming even worse

The decreases in Earth’s snow and ice cover over the past 30 years have exacerbated global warming more than models predict they should have, on average, new research from the University of Michigan shows.

University of Michigan News Service | Shrinking snow and ice cover intensify global warming

This exacerbated warming can be plainly seen in the temperature graphs.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-20086

According to statistical genius Jeff Masters, the odds of a full year of above normal ice are 2^366 to one.

Climate experts tell us that Antarctica is melting down and is going to drown us all, because temperatures in Antarctica are declining and the amount of ice is increasing.

Week 44 northern hemisphere snow extent has increased by 25% since the start of the satellite era in 1979, and this year has the second highest snow extent during that period. Russia and Canada are almost completely covered with snow.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

2012 also set the record for the greatest Antarctic sea ice cover ever measured.

Climate experts tell us that declining snow and ice cover is an essential ingredient of global warming.