January Snowcover Again Highest Since 1967, Running Ahead of 2008 « An Honest Climate Debate

[Joseh D’Aleo] The snowcover for week 1 is now available from Rutgers Snow Lab. It is the highest level since the first year of the record 1967, a little ahead of 1985.

The Next Victim to the Green Movement – The Plasma Flat Screen | All American Blogger

So first, the government decided to switch from analog to digital. Then, when you get your digital television, they tell you it’s not green enough and you’ll have to get a new one. Let’s think about that for a second.

How much carbon dioxide is produced when a new LCD is made? I mean, there’s wiring, so there must be some mining involved, not to mention getting the raw material into a finished product. The plastic case is made of oil, so there is drilling and transport, refining and transport, manufacturing and transport, purchasing and transport. And then the thing is still going to be pulling juice from the outlet, unless it’s a solar television.

GKSS scientists refute argument of climate skeptics (?)

A strange "refutation". Nobody denies that there was a small warming recorded for the Northern hemisphere in the second half of the 20th century. The question is what caused that recorded warming. The sun, heat-island effects, other cyclic factors or random factors? Although they are by definition unlikely, "runs" in random sequences are not at all unknown. Such runs are one of the main reasons why gamblers stay hooked. And the big question is the reliability of the aggregated ground-based thermometer measurements. I append below two emailed comments on that from Lord Monckton and Vincent Gray