“Hand me that ice pack, stat! He has global warming sickness!“, Or, The ED and the Coming Heat Wave | William M. Briggs

...Which makes you suspect that their paper is a polemic and not research. The AEM editors thought so, too. They took the extraordinary step of including a two-page explanation of why the Hess paper was allowed. And in it, uniquely, they cite—twice!—global warming skeptics. They consider that all might not be as bad as some claim. They also openly say that, even if global warming occurs as predicted, “the changes discussed in most forums will likely be gradual enough to allow us to adapt and overcome—which, after all, is what emergency physicians do best.”

You can’t say fairer than that.

Largest Offshore Wind Farm to Go Online - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Executives at Dong Energy told Green Inc. they had taken steps to diminish problems at the new site by carefully monitoring the way corrosion-resistant paints hold up at sea and by building accommodation for up to 24 workers so they can live on the ocean while performing on-site maintenance.

What provides the power for the "building accommodation"?

Green Ink: Awash in Oil...

Crude oil futures traded around $69 a barrel as big oil inventories and the end of driving season have some traders worried about fundamentals, Bloomberg reports. OPEC too is worried about crude inventories headed into winter, in the FT’s Energy Source.

Not so many fears on the supply side: Petrobras announces another oil find in the Santos Basin, as it seeks to reassure investors about Brazil’s new national plan for deepwater oil reserves, in Bloomberg. And there’s more natural gas, too: Repsol’s Venezuelan offshore find is the biggest in the company’s history, in the WSJ.

The Kaufman Backstory « Climate Audit

Instead of standardized sampling procedures for all 30 sites, each archived site has an ad hoc pattern of test results - some report varve thicknesses, some BSi, a couple chironomids, one delO18, but none carry out the program set out in the original NSF description. Instead of a complete archive, 20 of 30 sites remain without any archived data whatever.

And Kaufman et al did not calculate some sort of index based on the NSF 30 sites. Instead of compiling and reporting the NSF 30, Kaufman selected only 6 of the NSF 30 sites (including the series said by Bradley to have a HS-shape) and added 17 sites from outside the NSF program - including, of course, Briffa' Yamal tree ring site, one with a known HS shape and which is the strongest contributor to the Kaufman HS.

Kaufman stated in Iceland that they "need to be extremely careful to document our decisions and be ready to publicly defend them". It would be nice if they did so.