Although there is still not nearly enough reporting on climate change in the corporate/commercial news media, important stories are appearing. The Los Angeles Times, for examples, reports that “Some climate scientists, in a shift, link weather to global warming“:

a few prominent climate scientists now argue that there have been enough episodes of drought and intense heat in the last 10 years to establish a statistical pattern of extreme weather due to global warming.

In news from Texas, the New York Times covers “Last-Ditch Bid in Texas to Try to Stop Oil Pipeline“:

what might be one of the last pitched battles over the Keystone XL oil pipeline has been unfolding for weeks now, since construction of the controversial project’s southern leg began in August.

On the Bill Moyers show, the story of James Balog, who has been documenting the erosion of glaciers in Switzerland, Greenland, Iceland, and Alaska.He tells Moyers:

What made me a skeptic 30 years ago was that I didn’t have it in my head that it was possible that our species, homo sapiens, was capable of so profoundly altering the basic physics and chemistry of the planet.

In Austin last week, 300 people listened to Bill McKibben‘s analysis of the latest developments on climate change. If you missed his talk, which was co-sponsored by Third Coast, the video is online.

If you are looking for a one-stop explanation on the science of climate change, try “An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces” on the ThinkProgress Climate Progress website. Joe Romm’s conclusion: “Inaction means humanity’s self-destruction.”