Dumbest climate education move ever

In the process of looking up information on edGCM, the educational version of NASA's General Circulation Model 2, I found out that they no[w] charge $250 bucks.

What the f*ck?

The whole purpose of this project was to provide a transparent, accessible climate simulator, so that people who are wary of trusting their future to voodoo climate models can actually download one, pick apart the code, and see how they work.

Cold weather makes for poor pheasant hunting in Iowa

"It all started in the winter of 2007-08," said wildlife biologist Tim Thompson of Iowa City, Iowa. "We had lots of snow on the ground, which spells disaster for pheasants."

Thompson, who works for the Iowa DNR, said Iowa loses 3 to 5 percent of its hen pheasants for every week there is snow on the ground.
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The winter of 2008-09 was one of the worst on record for snowfall. Statewide, Iowa averages about 35 inches of snow in a typical winter. Last year, Thompson said, there were places that got more than twice that amount.

When Results Go Bad … « Watts Up With That?

So the CRU is using Tokyo? Beijing? Seoul? Shanghai? Moscow? Their claim is entirely false. In other words, once again the good folk of the CRU are blowing smoke. I can understand why it took me a Freedom of Information request to get the station list.