Global Warming Predictions Invalidated | The Resilient Earth

A new study in the journal Science has just shown that all of the climate modeling results of the past are erroneous. The IPCC's modeling cronies have just been told that the figures used for greenhouse gas forcings are incorrect, meaning none of the model results from prior IPCC reports can be considered valid.

SBVOR: NOAA Reports 3rd COLDEST October Since 1895!

Inconvenient Truths about Continental USA Temperatures:
2009 - 3rd coldest October since 1895!
2009 - October was 4F COLDER than the 1901-2000 average!

Barcelona diary: The USual suspects, paper trail on forests, and dirty Canada | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Connie Hedegaard's opening speech at the climate talks was well received, but sadly the Danish environment minister who will host the final negotiations next month in Copenhagen left a copy of the speech lying around, and it showed what had been cut out. Connie intended to say "we are aiming for a binding political agreement", but mysteriously dropped the word political at the last minute. Tellingly, she also removed a sentence which ran: "Honestly, who believes anyone's pledges will improve by a few months' postponement of a deal?" Yesterday the EU fully accepted that the talks would run over, saying it would not affect the outcome.

British climate change campaigners ride The Wave | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate change marches in the UK haven't, to date, pulled in the kind of numbers you might expect to see at, say, an antiwar march.

I'm sure there are multiple reasons for this, but principal among them is probably the underlying lack of desperate urgency many people still feel towards the threat of climate change. It is still largely deemed to be a distant problem, particularly as politicians seem to be fixated with talking about targets for the now mythical year of 2050. Holding a march on a Saturday in December is also, no doubt, another contributing factor.

Don't let the reckless City trade carbon | Andy Atkins | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

As the City recovers from one disaster, the next is on its way – but carbon trading will damage the planet, not just the economy