I’ve noticed increased activity in the “twittersphere” this week trumpeting many of the well-worn memes of climate denial, apparently due to Barack Obama’s mention of climate change action in his second inaugural address on Monday.
“Al Gore invented global warming in 2006;” “They changed the name from global warming to climate change;” “It’s cold outside where I live so global warming is a hoax,” and on and on. These memes come and go like the seasons (especially the one reacting to winter) and it’s ironic that often the folks citing them imagine they are the first to arrive at their earth-shattering conclusions.
An excellent post on Peter Sinclair’s Climate Denial Crock of the Week takes a historical look at our understanding and perception of global warming… opps, I mean climate change, back when Al Gore was a mere lad and scientists weren’t routinely subjected to political persecution. The first video comes from the anchor desk of Walter Cronkite (the most trusted man in American at the time) and the second reaches all the way back to the 1950′s.
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Two new reports reiterate the scientific veracity of anthropogenic climate change while reinforcing the interconnectedness of the economy and the environment. The World Economic Forum (WEF) 
This concise review covers the shameful environmental disregard of the past, the woeful inaction of the present and the hopelessness of a future in which we fail to act. This is a story of environmental neglect inspired by A Christmas Carol, the famous tale written by Charles Dickens and published in 1843 at the height of industrial revolution. However, unlike the Dickens tale, this is not a work of fiction. 
