American Thinker Blog: WSJ Publishes Nutty Global Warming Geoengineering Plan

Can you imagine anyone being loony enough to declare an unproven solution to an unproven problem to be “enormously risky” and certain to “lead to troubling unforeseen consequences” and “international tension,” and then proceeding to advocate for it nonetheless? Or a highly respected international news source making the decision to publish such lunacy as a cover story?

Fielding not yet convinced on emissions

Australian Greens leader Bob Brown said he was dumbfounded by Senator Fielding's position on climate change.

"Poor guy. He's just caught there with not believing ... or whether he thinks it's all make believe and somebody's pulling strings and nothing's true at all," he said.

Earlier, a Liberal senator split from her upper house colleagues by questioning the science of climate change.

But Senator Michaelia Cash, from West Australia, said she backed the coalition's official stance on emissions trading.

Senator Cash used an upper house inquiry into climate policy to reject a majority view that the balance of scientific evidence presented to a Senate committee showed human activity was responsible for climate change.

Climate change divides the Alps down the middle - Europe, World - The Independent

According to the report, precipitation in the south-east of the region has fallen nearly 10 per cent in the past 100 years while rain and snowfall in the north-west ranges has increased by the same amount over this time.

My first two questions:

1. Why can't precipitation vary naturally by nearly 10 percent over a century?

2. What's the margin of error in comparing precipitation now versus 1909?