Honest Skepticism on Global Warming - Blogger News Network

Until we get some real answers to those questions, until we know what the true picture of scientific truth and political corruption is in the research centers of the climatology industry, I think we should be very leery of making drastic economic adjustments on the say-so of scientists whose only check appears to be their own self-control and honesty. I have no doubt that those virtues find wide distribution within the scientific community, but I also have no doubt that they are far from universal. We have to protect our ecosphere, the place where we all live, but we also have to make a living here - let’s not throw away our ability to do that until we are quite sure about the trustworthiness of the people advising us.

American Thinker Blog: Warmist denial won't work

That denial is only going to make matters worse for the warmists. Are they going to pretend that Monbiot is in the pay of the hydrocarbon industry? The Warmist toothpaste is not going back into the tube. Pretending that there isn't an ugly pile of dentifrice on the sink is not going to make the mess go away.

Academic questions 'green' initiatives on cutting carbon footprint

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2009) — Global carbon markets may well have been hailed as the saviour of the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but in many ways they are doing more harm than good, according to new evidence.

The eye of the storm : article : Nature Reports Climate Change

"I am sorry to say", he writes, "that most of what politicians are doing on the climate front is greenwashing — their proposals sound good, but they are deceiving you and themselves at the same time."

According to Hansen, that includes US President Obama. Even former Vice President Al Gore, who perhaps has done more than anyone to raise awareness of climate change, is evidently deceiving himself. "I saw him on Larry King last night," says Hansen, "and what really worries me is that he sounds optimistic that we're now on a track to solve this problem." He lets out an incredulous chuckle. "We're not, however, on a track, and that's clear."

Central England Temperature series

The very long thermometer-reading series from central England (from 1659 on) is of huge interest because it does NOT rely on dubious proxies -- and it shows the 20th century as being unexceptional. I have therefore made a number of allusions to it on this blog.