Global warming and/or the end of the world

It all needs to be tossed out, of course, and work needs to begin anew on reconstructing the temperature records. People, companies and even countries have been harmed by this mess, and lawyers will begin to circle.
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For skeptics and many Republicans here in the U.S., the boy has already cried wolf once too often. If even greater portions of the general public becomes anti-science as a result of this sorry disaster, we will have only these scientists and their lazy publishers to blame.

Landfalling Tropical Cyclones of the Philippines

In response to what climate alarmists call the unprecedented global warming of the 20th century -- and about which they express the gravest concern -- the number of tropical cyclones annually making landfall in the Philippines did not experience any net change. All variability was merely oscillatory activity around a mean trend of zero slope.

Senate climate [fraud] bill fails to lift perceptions of US at international global warming [fraud] talks

BANGKOK — The honeymoon appears to be over for the United States at U.N. climate talks.

After being applauded for re-engaging in negotiations this year, the American delegation at talks in Bangkok finds themselves being tagged like their Bush Administration predecessors — as villains who aren’t serious about reaching an ambitious global warming treaty when leaders from 120 countries meet in Copenhagen in December.

British Airways Increases Business Class Services despite Green Claims: What Gives? | Triple Pundit

Many environmentalists are incensed. After all, whatever the planes’ fuel efficiency, their 32-seat layout will create approximately three times the emissions per person as a regular flight. As Friends of the Earth’s Richard Dyer reportedly said, “Aviation causes harmful emissions that contribute to climate change – we should be curbing the growth in flying, not laying new flights.”

[Were these same environmentalists incensed at this news?]: Obama Inauguration Sets Record for Private Jets - The Wealth Report - WSJ

According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were expected to touch down in D.C. for the inauguration. The runway at Washington Dulles was closed Saturday to allow as many as 100 small planes to park. And the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said it expected a total of 500 small jets to land from Jan. 16 through Jan 21.