[Will our alleged sins drive the seas that far inland?]: Small Midwestern States To Be Hit Hardest By Climate Change: Report

Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the state that will face the third worst catastrophe, will be a key player on the Finance Committee, which hopes to claim jurisdiction over the distribution of the revenue that will be raised through a cap and trade system.

Spurious Warming in New NOAA Ocean Temperature Product: The Smoking Gun « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

After crunching data this week from two of our satellite-based microwave sensors, and from NOAA’s official sea surface temperature (SST) product ERSST v3b, I think the evidence is pretty clear:

The ERSST v3b product has a spurious warming since 1998 of about 0.2 deg. C, most of which occurred as a jump in 2001.