Inhofe On Obama's Trip To Copenhagen - The Atlantic Politics Channel

"I suspect President Obama is making the trip to Copenhagen in order to 'save' the climate conference," Sen. Inhofe said. "Yet no amount of lofty rhetoric or promises of future commitments can save it. This is due in large part to the fact cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate is dying on the vine, and, as important, recent revelations of leading climate scientists who appear to have manufactured the climate 'consensus'-revelations that cast doubt over the entire global warming enterprise.

Ambrose: Hackers expose climate games | ScrippsNews

One of the subjects discussed in the e-mails stolen from the English climate center was this relative cooling, and the great sense from some of those e-mails is that if the facts won't carry you to the policies you want, play games with them. Is this being done right now?

CANADA : Whistler Blackcomb breaks snowfall record

At press time Whistler Blackcomb is reporting 530 cm of total snowfall in the low alpine of Whistler Mountain, resulting in a 220 cm base at Pig Alley weather station and some of the best early season ski and snowboard conditions in years.

That's a record snowfall for any month in the past 30 years, since records were kept. The previous record of 416 cm was set in January 2006, but by Nov. 19 this year Whistler Blackcomb was already reporting 418 cm of snow, with more in the forecast.

Manufacturing consensus: why Climategate hurts the warming faith | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

[Ilya Somin] I thought that global warming was probably a genuine and serious problem because that is what the overwhelming majority of relevant scientists seem to believe, and I generally didn’t doubt their objectivity.

At the very least, the Climategate revelations should weaken our confidence in the above conclusion. At least some of the prominent scholars in the field seem driven at least in part by ideology, and willing to use intimidation to keep contrarian views from being published, even if the articles in question meet normal peer review standards. Absent such tactics, it’s possible that more contrarian research would be published in professional journals and the consensus in the field would be less firm.