Can geo-engineering rebuild the planet? - Telegraph

As global warming worsens, the idea of vast projects to alter the Earth's environment is moving from fantasy to necessity.

SciGuy: Is this hurricane science ... or SmackDown?

Aberson is basically saying that the statistics underlying Holland's arguments in the 2007 paper are off. Way off.

So bad, in fact, that the way in which Holland draws his conclusions about the relationship between Atlantic sea surface temperatures and hurricane activity could also be used to conclude there's a meaningful relationship between Atlantic sea surface temperatures and five-year running means of:

• The number of Republican Party members in the U.S. House
• The number of years since the crowning of a new pope
• The number of games the New York Yankees won in the current season
• A random number between zero and one

Research exodus feared as Canada climate funding dries up

Projects involving hundreds of scientists have entered their final phase and will shut down by March, 2010. "They're dead as of next spring," says atmospheric physicist Richard Peltier of University of Toronto, noting that there is no new federal money in sight for new projects or to build on existing ones.