Real Climate Science

Giving “natural objects” — like trees — standing to sue in a court of law would have a “most salubrious” effect on the environment, Holdren wrote the 1970s.

“One change in (legal) notions that would have a most salubrious effect on the quality of the environment has been proposed by law professor Christopher D. Stone in his celebrated monograph, ‘Should Trees Have Standing?’” Holdren said in a 1977 book that he co-wrote with Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich.

“In that tightly reasoned essay, Stone points out the obvious advantages of giving natural objects standing, just as such inanimate objects as corporations, trusts, and ships are now held to have legal rights and duties,” Holdren added.

http://www.nationalreview.com/

That makes me totally awesome!

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Global warming is reality

Let’s hear the lessons on global warming. The alarm is here. Global warming is a reality. It is going to threaten humankind now and what we do now is going to decide the future of humanity in the next 15 to 25 years. It is going to effect many generations in the future. I hope our selfishness and humanity won’t see us through by blaming religion, God or some other situation.

Reasons for disasters

With all other nations, when there was a disaster there was always a reason for it. America, what is your reason for all the bad weather, disasters and the deaths? Get your house in order.

http://blog.gulflive.com/

http://query.nytimes.com/

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Jeff Masters named his site after a 1960s terrorist movement. Nothing has changed.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/

h/t to Joe D’Aleo

Note that the gradient across the frontal boundary is smaller than last Wednesday (below) so there should be less violent weather tonight than there was Wednesday.

The winds are well defined though (below.) You can see the dividing line across the frontal boundary with north winds in purple and south winds in green.

Bill McKibben is at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem on Tuesday. His 1989 book “End of Nature” is considered the first to describe global warming to the public.

The Winston-Salem Journal reports that McKibben’s talk will focus on what he calls the most important number in the world.

The number 350 represents the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that many scientists consider safe for humans. The amount of carbon now in the atmosphere is close to 390 parts per million and has been above the target since soon after McKibben’s book came out a generation ago.

At 0.0004 mole fraction, most people will keel over and die. At 0.00045, aliens who have been buried for 100 years will come up through the pavement. At 0.0005 ….. this ….

Suddenly, everything changes ……

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