Climate claims fail science test | The Australian

What this means is that the IPCC model for climate sensitivity is not supported by experimental observation on ancient ice ages and recent satellite data.

So are we justified in concluding that the concentration of atmospheric CO2 is not the only or major driver of current climate change? And if so, how should we re-shape our ETS legislation?

I don't know the answer to these questions, but as Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman observed: "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."

No. 6: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (A.K.A. ClimateDepot.com) | Mother Jones

According to the Web traffic site Compete.com, ClimateDepot had as many as 168,000 unique visitors in a month, making it the most popular denial site.

Dense fog in Copenhagen | The SPPI Blog [Note: Christopher Monckton is now blogging here]

...as the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased the atmospheric concentration of water vapor has decreased by an amount more or less exactly sufficient to match the (very small) warming effect of the (very small) increase in CO2 concentration,

At least one paper in the scientific literature says that such compensatory decreases in the absolute humidity of the atmosphere must occur. At any rate, so far it has occurred, so that the total greenhouse effect of the whole atmosphere is exactly the same as it was before we began adding CO2 to the atmosphere in measurable quantities after the Second World War.

The only “global warming” that occurred after the Second World War was the warming of 1975-1995, and that warming cannot have been caused by an increase in the greenhouse effect, whether anthropogenic or natural, because there has been no increase in the greenhouse effect at all. So our carbon emissions have been harmless.

Hopenhagen? Nope: Dopenhagen | The SPPI Blog

I began mining this enormous stack – some 1000 pages in all. And there, deliberately buried right at the very bottom, was the “negotiating text” in its current form. And why had so much trouble been taken to hide this draft of the Treaty? Come back to the SPPI Blog tomorrow and I shall reveal all.

Wall Street Journal: Science Journal Do you believe humans are responsible for climate change?

[Update: 88.9% "No"]

Growers Await Second Night of Freeze - 12/09/09 - Fresno News - abc30.com

That's why Ochoa is pumping water through his groves to warm the air. He also has wind machines to help with that too. Ochoa does not want a repeat of 2007's devastating freeze which lasted several days and crippled the local citrus industry. Millions of dollars were lost and groves were destroyed. Two years later Ochoa's groves are just starting to rejuvenate and could finally turn a real profit.
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Blakely was closely monitoring Monday night's valley wide temperatures. "We estimate that our industry probably spent close to 4-million dollars last night running irrigation, wind machines," he said.

Freeze concerns citrus growers

According to Blakely, the first frost usually arrives later in December.

“It’s a little bit early unusual for it to be this cold this early,” he said.

Bay Area Cold Snap Breaks Records - cbs5.com

Some Bay Area cities saw record low temperatures Tuesday as a cold spell held its grip on the region, a National Weather Service forecaster said.

Climate Summit Starts In Copenhagen, Thousands Gather In Denmark Capital | World News | Sky News

Environmentalists waddle around enveloped in giant foam 'tree' costumes while protestors just out of their teens stage a 'love in' aimed at killing two birds with one stone: encouraging the world to cut carbon and marking the anniversary of John Lennon's death.
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What you won't find at the Bella Center is a real live climate sceptic, although it's not that they've become extinct.

Though they are vastly outnumbered by scientists who think that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases, sceptics make a considerable amount of noise, especially on the internet.

There are no more than 100 of them, but they've lined up two days worth of speakers, and seem to be having a jolly time of it.