Cap and Trade Could Cost W.Va. 23,000 Jobs - WVNS-TV - WVNSTV.com

A forthcoming study from West Virginia University says cap-and-trade legislation could cause the state to lose 2.3 percent of its jobs and lose 24,600 people.

AP Caught Misleading On Climategate

The AP gave copies of the leaked e-mails to three scientists for the story. It then attempted to portray their views on the scandal in a dishonest manner. The international wire service selectively quoted the experts it interviewed to make it seem as though they did not think the leaked e-mails and data from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit were a very big deal. But the leaked e-mails were a big deal, and the scientists interviewed knew it.

- Bishop Hill blog - Who would be in Professor Hardaker's shoes?

Hardaker's position must be profoundly uncomfortable. The "editor problem" aside, there is no doubt what the correct decision regarding the materials policy is in scientific terms. This one acceptable course of action must also be absolutely clear to Hardaker, who is on the board of Sense About Science, a body which promotes "good science and evidence in public debates". It is hard to see how he could credibly permit the withholding of any data or code while holding this position.

I wonder what decisions were made at that meeting in the autumn? I'll write and see.

Copenhagen pact wasn’t ‘better than nothing’ - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

COP 15 saw some 45,000 people all landed in one small portion of the earth by the “most efficient climate-destroying machine”—the airplane, to quote environmentalist Pierre-Emmanuel Neurohr.

Twitter / Ann Wood

I liked this line. "...torturing the data until it confessed." - Tom Borelli on Beck Tues. concerning the climate change scientists.

Climate Observations: Memo To Big Oil

[Bob Tisdale] Note that being in the pocket of Big Oil implies that I am receiving payment from you for my “flat earther” blog posts. Unfortunately, I, as of this writing, have received no Big Oil moneys. I assume this is simply an oversight or a minor accounting error on your part, Big Oil.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The 15 bloggiest stories of 2009

1. Economic crisis/AIG bonuses (Mar 16-20) 65%
2. Obama Inaguration (Jan 19-23) 63%
3. Iran post-election unrest (Jun 15-19) 63%
4. Economy/Financial bailouts (Mar 23-27) 62%
5. ClimateGate (Dec 7-11) 52%
6. “What Happened to Global Warming?” (Oct 12-16) 50%

Satellite visualization of December’s deadly cold in Europe and Russia « Watts Up With That?

It will be interesting to see how the NASA imagery compares with the anomaly maps of GISS and HadCRUT for December when they are made available.

The Migrant Mind: Are the oceans actually cooling?

...right now, even NASA says the oceans are cooling.

Another example of strange data selectivity by British climatologists

The official British Met office in this case. An email below from a reader -- noting that once again the best data for a location is ignored -- apparently in favour of something that suits Warmist assumptions better. There was a lot of that with the CRU treatment of the Russian data too. The record referred to below which the meteorologists do use has so many gaps in it that one suspects that the gaps are the attraction. Such gaps can be filled in by Warmist guesses

American Thinker: The Left's End Times

Global warming isn't a religion, not even figuratively. It more resembles a cult. In a couple of generations -- let's hope -- the global warming camp of our time will be seen clearly as having occupied the fringe of science; a heretical (in scientific terms) movement given to wild claims and inspired by a cultish fervency to convert fellow humans to their extreme beliefs -- findings and facts be damned.

It's quite possible that future Americans who watch the videos of a ranting Al Gore will widely consider him an unhinged buffoon. Gore's name may make it into the lexicon, to be used along this line: "Don't go Gore on me" to refer to anyone who's about to go red-faced and scream and froth in favor of or opposed to anything.