Warming the Raw Sat Data « The Air Vent

The very important satellite trends are skewed more positive than the surface stations. This has to be the 1000th time now that I’ve noticed an inconsistency in a transparently pro-AGW paper that falls in favor of more warming. Why are the discrepancies always in the warmer than you thought direction!!

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Arctic team gives up on ice radar

Pen Hadow, leading the Catlin Arctic Survey, describes losing the use of the equipment as frustrating but concedes that the hostile conditions have overwhelmed the technology.

"It's never wise to imagine that either man or technology has the upper hand in the natural world," he said. "It's truly brutal at times out here on the Arctic Ocean and a constant reminder that Mother Nature always has the final say."

The expedition was blighted in the first few weeks by temperatures well below minus 40 Celsius, the equivalent of minus 70 allowing for the wind chill.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Markey threatens industry: do you feel lucky, punk?

"If Congress doesn't act, then clearly there is a residual authority now granted by the Supreme Court of the United States to the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases," Markey said. "The only way to avoid that is to have Congress act."

That should encourage business not to fight the proposed legislation, which Markey plans to begin committee hearings on next week.

"It becomes a real factor," Markey said. "Industries across the country will just have to gauge for themselves how lucky they feel if they kill legislation in terms of how the EPA process will include them.""