Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Investor's Business Daily -- Czar 54, Who Are You?
Leadership: Our new science czar, John Holdren, once backed compulsory sterilization and forced abortion as part of a government population-control program. The only thing missing was a Soylent Green recipe.
And now, the most influential station in the GISS record is … « Watts Up With That?
Unfortunately, having three of the top four stations located at airports was the the sort of thing I expected.
The Reference Frame: Policy Peril: The Truth About Global Warming
Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have 40 spare minutes, it's time for another professional video about the climate change policies and their impact on the U.S. and others.
BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: Some (climate) models aren't worth the flirt, new research shows
But a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters shows that this trust could be misplaced. The ability of a model to faithfully simulate past climate change is 'no guarantee of future skill', according to research by Catherine Reifen and Ralf Toumi at Imperial College .

Reifen and Toumi played around with the models of temperature change in the 20th century. To their surprise, they found that models which painted a faithful picture of climate change between 1900 and 1919 failed miserably between 1920 and 1939. The same applied between 1901-1920 and 1921-1940, and so on up until 1999.

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