Heat Over a Leaked U.N. Warming Analysis - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

“There’s a parade of world leaders standing up here today and speaking on and on and on about proposals that’ll keep us below 2 degrees and pretending that the stuff on the table has any hope of doing that,” [alarmist McKibben] said. “And the U.N. itself knows that it’s going to go at least 50 percent hotter than they’re pretending.”

Now Starring the Heatmeiser! - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

If you didn't get enough of Al Gore's poetry (or the poetry inspired by it), an illustrated version is now available

Climategate: Monckton and North spit-roast Pachauri – Telegraph Blogs

I would be very surprised if the cricket-loving, jetsetting, troll-impersonator remains the IPCC’s chairman for much longer.

Rudd is against what he’s for in Copenhagen | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A populist caught out. Kevin Rudd tells Copenhagen negotiatiors that their idea of new taxes is “constructive” , but he tells Australian taxpayers that these taxes are bad

Pajamas Media » Climategate: Faster and Faster, the Dominos Fall

With the revelation about the cherrypicked Russian stations (plus six other freshly, independently discovered problems), the real story of how we got here just took a shape.

Stat Model Predicts Flat Temperatures Through 2050 | The Resilient Earth

If the new model's prediction is true, global temperatures in 2100 will not even approach the tripwire-for-Armageddon 2°C level set by the IPCC as humanity's point of no return. Can a statistical model be better at predicting future temperatures than complex yet incomplete GCM? With the lack of theoretical understanding, paucity of good historical data, and overwhelming simplifications that have to be made to make climate models run on today's supercomputers I would have to say that the statistical model comes off pretty well. Give me a well known statistical technique over a fatally flawed climate model any day.