Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » 2009 SOI so far refuses tango with El Nino

It is is noteworthy that the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) which should be trending towards negative monthly values for an El Nino – still shows a positive 30 day average value of 8.56 as of the 18th July 09. SOI information.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: A Challenge to Climate Change Skeptics

The rules of the challenge are as follows:

1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit above average, as listed by Weather Underground, you owe me $25. For each day that it is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit below average, I owe you $25.

Climate for partying: UN in summit scam

But do you need a summit to build that trust -- particularly when most leaders would not even meet each other, inside or outside the UN building, except those participating in interactive sessions? However, even if they do, they would be more interested in bilateral issues than discuss the bigger agenda of climate change.

Since the Children's Summit in New York in 1990 and the mega Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, there have been dozens of similar gatherings around the globe: on human rights, population, social development, habitat, women, financing for development and the highly-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

But most of them have been glorified talk-fests and/or exercises in futility. When world leaders attending these international gatherings give their blessings to either a "political declaration" or "a plan of action," an overwhelming majority of these heads of state or heads of government have not even read the document.