BBC News - Tebbit and Denham on Green Tories

[Video] The the next generation of Tory MPs may not share David Cameron's enthusiasm for all things green and see fighting climate change as the least important priority for a Conservative government, a survey has found.

Lord Tebbit and John Denham discussed where the Tories stand on green issues and climate change.

[Still more stupidity from the New York Times]: Sen.-Elect Brown Is a 'Blank Slate' on Climate, Drawing Concern and Optimism - NYTimes.com

But apart from campaign statements questioning the integrity of climate scientists and the public reversals related to his vote supporting Massachusetts' role in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a 10-state cap-and-trade program for utility emissions, Brown's positions on climate change are largely unknown.

[From Brown's campaign web site: What exactly is "blank" about this "slate"?]

I oppose a national cap and trade program because of the higher costs that families and businesses would incur.

Warming Expected to Cut Atlantic Hurricane Tally but Boost Threat - [Alarmist Revkin] - NYTimes.com

A new modeling study published in this week’s issue of Science projects a rise of about 30 percent in potential hurricane damage in the western Atlantic toward the end of the century as emissions of greenhouse gases rise.

Global Warming Typo Fix Means Slower Melt For Asian Glaciers - The Two-Way - Breaking News, Analysis Blog : NPR

OK. Deep breath. After a government minister in India expressed his skepticism about the assertion recently, the head of the IPCC went and looked it up. Oops. It's wrong.

The IPCC has issued a statement saying that the organization's fact-checking system broke down in this instance.

How did this happen? A letter being published online later today in Science Magazine says the IPCC picked up the date from a report by the World Wildlife Fund, which has since corrected its error. WWF picked up the date from a quote in the popular science magazine, New Scientist. But the final clue to the mystery may lie in an obscure study that discussed the global fate of glaciers in the year 2350. Flip around a few of those digits and...