Bishop Hill blog - The Yamal implosion

...The revised chronology was simply staggering. The sharp uptick in the series at the end of the twentieth century had vanished, leaving a twentieth century apparently without a significant trend. The blade of the Yamal hockey stick, used in so many of those temperature reconstructions that the IPCC said validated Michael Mann's work, was gone.

Carol: Clear & Cloudy: The New World Order

The elite didn’t count on the masses having intelligence, strength, power and a passion for liberty. We can read and understand that there is no conclusive science the backs the need for our own Cap and Trade bill, or any global cooperation for environmental protection. We can read the radical books and ideas of the Holdren’s, Sunstein’s and Van Jones’ of the world.

[Maybe we should quit burning our corn]: Hillary Clinton and Ban Ki-moon Talk Food | ONE

The challenge that faces us is here – global food supplies must increase by an estimated 50 percent to meet expected demand in the next 20 years.

Details of the Senate Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill Get Hammered Out Ahead of Formal Release

The Senate draft calls for auctioning off 25% of the emissions credits allocated every year from 2012 to 2050, worth potentially hundreds of billions of dollars, with the proceeds dedicated to lowering the federal deficit. President Obama initially called for 100% of the allocations be auctioned in, but relented as the House debated Waxman-Markey, compromising that down to 15% starting in 2011. Proceeds would go to low and moderate-income households.