Y'know, don't you, that strain of climate contrarian humor that evokes SUVs so often? Maybe some scientists or other science-interested person makes note of the greenhouse effect on Venus, or during the Eemian or during the early Earth and dim Sun days. In a blink somebody hoots, hah! Tell it to Al Gore! Did they have SUVs back then or what!? Perhaps a few of them do so while looking proudly at giant Lexus GXs or Lincoln Navigators in the drive. Such things are superb vehicles, of a type that America invented and good for us. If you have a family and a horse trailer to haul and frequent need to get off the pavement, saddle-up. But they do look sort of stupid picking up one or two kids every day with their big motors idling in the line to get to...
Several large, syndicated news outlets are carrying modest-sized stories on the annual accounting of collective global refusal to do much about global warming's main, almost only, cause: Rising concentrations of CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases. There are few tricky or slick new ways to write news on deadline when it is no surprise, is bad, and when the official word comes from the same agency as generally does this sort of thing namely the UN and its World Meteorological Organization, and gets endorsed from others among such usual suspects as NOAA.
The AP's...