Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"

[Terence Corcoran] "Also clear is that the official science on climate change as we know it today, looking backward and forward, has been developed and controlled by the relatively small collection of scientists who wrote most of the emails. Working directly or indirectly for the IPCC, the scientists seem to have become captive of that organization’s objectives, which was to find “the hand of man” in climate records to justify plans to change the climate in future. The scientists, in other words, became engaged in the all-too-familiar business of decision-based evidence making."

American Thinker Blog: Our Heart to Lord Christopher Monckton

The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNCCC or COP15) in Copenhagen has concluded with no treaty , no “agreement”, no “goals” other than trivial ones, no “enforcement” provisions, and no “reparations” to third world countries, whom do we thank?

CapitalClimate: Emanuel, Prinn, Lindzen Debate CRU-Hack at MIT

Lindzen:

. . .things that are unethical and in many cases illegal . . . willingness to destroy data rather than release it . . . bad things going on . . . elite hysteria . . . devastating for popular support for science . . . scandals, cheating and arguments . . . bizarre changes [to the data] . . . The public is being thrown catastrophes.

RealClearMarkets - The Perverse Economics of Climate Modeling

Before we let suspect computer models developed by a handful of people drive the entire world economy into a ditch, don't you think we should take the covers off and invest a little more time and effort to thoroughly examine how these models work? Hopefully this will include analytical critiques from a wider cast of characters than the self-serving cabal whose mendacity and ham-handed attempts to marginalize dissent were recently exposed. Perhaps an open process will help both "sides" focus on attacking weaknesses in the models themselves rather than attacking each other's tribal affiliations. Only then can we hope to get real value for all the money we taxpayers fork over to support these scientists.

Copenhagen Climate Change Church Visits Flounder

"Church prelates at Copenhagen like Rowan Williams and Desmond Tutu spread climate fears, tiresomely echoing secular European conventional environmentalism." -- IRD President Mark Tooley

Twitter / FRANkVizeum

RT @cameronreilly: vision + leadership: Australia will do "no more and no less" than other nations to fight climate change - It's So Wong.

Global warming on blogs outshines MSM in interest « Watts Up With That?

From Dec. 7-11, more than half (52%) of the news links in blogs were about global warming, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. That represents the most attention to the subject in any given week this year, and marks the third week in a row that global warming has been among the top four subjects in blogs.

American Thinker: Other Consequences of Climategate

The consequences of "Climategate" are lost opportunity costs that should have been directed at real global pollution problems. The hothouse atmosphere at East Anglia from cooking the books on a huge fraud has significant consequences that will play out over time. "Global Warming" shamans have sent the world on the fool's errand of looking for man-made carbon footprints while very real environmental problems have fallen by the wayside.