Arctic sea ice has nearly vanished, expert fears - The Globe and Mail

David Barber says the thick, multiyear frozen sheets crucial to the northern ecosystem have been replaced by thin “rotten” ice which can't support the weight of the bears.

Sarkozy: No global carbon risk from T&T

Trinidad and Tobago does not risk upsetting the world’s carbon emission balance despite its heavily industrialised economy, says French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » A Response to What is—and what isn’t—evidence of global warming.

Really, the only point at which I am my interlocutor disagree is in how much to trust the models. I am not yet ready to trust them to the extent that they be used to create rules and regulations that are mandated by force of law. I am willing, as I assume my questioner is, to pay, in the form of taxes, for more research on climate—to, that is, continue to do what we have been doing. I would not support new taxes.

Data-leak lessons learned from the 'Climategate' hack

Lesson 2: Don't evade Freedom of Information requests. As noted in the Science Magazine link above, many of the e-mails discuss how to destroy documents in anticipation of Freedom of Information requests. That's a criminal offense in the United Kingdom (where the CRU is located). IT folks should be aware that an increasing amount of data (particularly scientific and research data gathered via public funding) is subject to FOIA. They should work with researchers to ensure documents are stored and organized with that in mind.

RealClimate: Where’s the data?

Much of the discussion in recent days has been motivated by the idea that climate science is somehow unfairly restricting access to raw data upon which scientific conclusions are based. This is a powerful meme and one that has clear resonance far beyond the people who are actually interested in analysing data themselves. However, many of the people raising this issue are not aware of what and how much data is actually available.

Therefore, we have set up a page of data links to sources of temperature and other climate data, codes to process it, model outputs, model codes, reconstructions, paleo-records, the codes involved in reconstructions etc. We have made a start on this on a new Data Sources page, but if anyone has other links that we’ve missed, note them in the comments and we’ll update accordingly.