Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Copenhagen: UN appeals for calm after "bust-up" | Australian Climate Madness
With the air thick with blame and recrimination, and with any hope of a global deal disappearing faster than a Himalayan glacier, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has appealed to the various factions to stop bickering
Wikipedia: MWP page "locked" due to "vandalism" | Australian Climate Madness
And by "vandalism" it means honest attempts to remove the fraudulent and discredited hockey stick graph.
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So by labelling such attempts at editing "vandalism," Connolley isn't even complying with Wikipedia's own editorial guidelines. But Connolley has the final say anyway, and has the power to disable editing of pages where such edits don't fit with his personal views.

So the moral is: you still can't trust Wikipedia on climate.
Peoria Journal Star Editorial [throws global warming under the bus]: Reasons to go green besides global warming
Finally, it's awfully difficult for leaders to commit when they don't have the popular support of the folks back home. While we don't give much credence to those who see snow on the ground in December in central Illinois and conclude that global warming is therefore a hoax, not too many people living anywhere are looking out their windows and finding evidence that the end of the world is nigh. That dog just isn't hunting at the moment, our apologies to the polar bears.
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In any event, it may be wise for the White House to literally change the terms of this debate, to alter the impetus for change on behalf of a skeptical public from manmade global warming to this nation's singular need to be at the cutting edge of new technologies, new industries and new jobs for an America that could very much use them.
AMS Policy Statement on Geoengineering the Climate System
(Adopted by the AMS Council on 20 July 2009)
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Human responsibility for most of the well-documented increase in global average temperatures over the last half century is well established.

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