Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Real Climate Suffers from Foggy Perception by Henk Tennekes

Roger Pielke Sr. has graciously invited me to add my perspective to his discussion with Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate. If this were not such a serious matter, I would have been amused by Gavin’s lack of knowledge of the differences between weather models and climate models. As it stands, I am appalled. Back to graduate school, Gavin!
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From my perspective it is not a little bit alarming that the current generation of climate models cannot simulate such fundamental phenomena as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. I will not trust any climate model until and unless it can accurately represent the PDO and other slow features of the world ocean circulation. Even then, I would remain skeptical about the potential predictive skill of such a model many tens of years into the future.

European Summer School for Cap and Trade - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Nobody ever said curbing emissions would be easy. But there’s homework too?

On Wednesday officials at the European Commission said they will hold a summer school this year on how to operate carbon markets. The idea is to familiarize policymakers from other countries that are considering adopting such a system – also known as cap-and-trade – to control emissions.

Letter: Natural cycle of global warming not political issue |  Bemidji Pioneer  | Bemidji, Minnesota

CAFE standard for cars, carbon credits, carbon trading, carbon offsets are all inventions of politicians to get money out of the people. As a child in 1965, Newsweek and Time magazine proclaimed “global cooling” was occurring. As a child, I was worried for my life in an ice age and as an adult, I’m worried about increased taxation due to increase solar energy output.

We should not make political policy on the normal fluctuation in solar energy. It is one thing to let global warming policy reign during good times it is another when it can strangle business and intrude into our lives.

Susan Anderson
Bemidji [Via CO2 Sceptics]

Sun Of A Launch For Russia | CO2sceptics

Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com alerts our readers to the fact that Russia is preparing to launch the country's first science satellite in years.

The satellite is the Koronas-Foton, which was designed to conduct uninterrupted monitoring and analysis of solar activity and will analyze heating of the Sun's corona, mechanics of solar bursts, and the nature of Sun cycles. According to officials involved in the project, the satellite would help to plan manned space missions, including future expeditions to Mars, by providing accurate and up-to-date forecasts of solar activity. The Sun’s influence on weather and climate on Earth would also be investigated...