Fielding's climate mission | theage.com.au

THE fact-finding mission to the US of Family First senator Steve Fielding has culminated in him giving senior White House staff graphs provided by climate change sceptics and asking why he should not believe them.

Senator Fielding emailed graphs that claim the globe had not warmed for a decade to Joseph Aldy, US President Barack Obama's special assistant on energy and the environment, after a meeting on Thursday.
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"I now need the science to be resolved," Senator Fielding said. "I would be derelict in my duties and I think I'd be letting down the Australian people if I didn't properly research the issues and relied on one side of the debate."  [Via Australian Climate Madness]

Video: Al Gore's close encounter of the green kind | GORE LIED

Al Gore isn’t interested in magic solutions. After all, the closest thing we’ve got on earth to a magic solution (if one were actually needed) is nuclear. Gore will have no part of nuclear as that would be too simplistic, and would not allow Gore and his merry band of Warmers to take away our individual liberties, and implement new taxes to redistribute wealth.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Exclusive: New NSIDC director Serreze explains the “death spiral” of Arctic ice, brushes off the “breathaking ignorance” of blogs like WattsUpWithThat

Serreze: I have yet to lose any sleep over what is talked about in WattsUpWithThat or any other similar blog that insists on arguing from a viewpoint of breathaking ignorance.

Flashback: Check out this 1993 paper--with Mark Serreze's name on it

In particular, we do not observe the large surface warming trends predicted by models; indeed, we detect significant surface cooling trends over the western Arctic Ocean during winter and autumn. This discrepancy suggests that present climate models do not adequately incorporate the physical processes that affect the polar regions.