I Don't Know Much about Climate but I Know What I Don't Like - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online

No shirt, no shoes, no PC views, no service.

(His rug was incinerated by global warming.)

Gas Glut: Why the U.S. Boom Could Mean Cheaper Gas Everywhere - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The latest official survey of U.S. natural gas reserves shows how important the latest wave of shale-gas exploration has been: Reserves are the highest they’ve been in the 44-year history of the government survey, and jumped 35% in just the last two years. The Potential Gas Committee estimates U.S. gas supply at more than 2 trillion cubic feet; new shale-gas fields account for 33% of that. (The WSJ story’s here.)

“Our present assessment demonstrates an exceptionally strong and optimistic gas supply picture for the nation,” said John B. Curtis, a geologist at the Colorado School of Mines, which oversees the government report.

Wong's silent treatment - Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks and Bill Kininmonth | The Australian

As independent scientists attending the meeting, we found the minister's advisers unable, indeed in some part unwilling, to answer the questions.

We were told that the first question needed rephrasing because it did not take account of the global thermal balance and the fact much of the heat that drives the climate system is lodged in the ocean.

Que? What is it about "carbon dioxide has increased and temperature has decreased" that the minister's science advisers don't understand?

The second question was dismissed with the comment that climatic events that occurred in the distant geological past were not relevant to policy concerned with contemporary climate change. Try telling that to geologist Ian Plimer.

And regarding the accuracy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's computer models, we were assured that better models were in the pipeline. So the minister's advisers apparently concede that the models that have guided preparation of the emissions trading scheme legislation are inadequate.

These are not adequate responses.