Cold, Dark, and Crowded - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Can we count on a Tom Friedman column extolling the environmental virtue of Chinese energy rationing?

- Bishop Hill blog - Environment correspondents

This is as much as anything an appeal for information: to do a little crowdsourcing.

I have been aware for a while that the post of Environment Correspondent isn't necessarily held by either scientists or economists, and can be a favoured career destination for activists.

I have produced a small list which can be downloaded here. It is by no means comprehensive.

1934 – 1998 Gissmatic « the Air Vent

...you can see the dramatic progress toward shifting the 1934 temperatures downward. When you consider that 1934 was at one time .5 C higher than 1998 and over the years was repressed until they were equal...

SBVOR: A 25 Year Global Cooling Trend

Since 1984, the ENSO-adjusted annual rate of change in global temperatures has been steadily decreasing! And, depending upon which dataset you choose to trust, sometime in the last decade, that trend took us into a NEGATIVE rate of change where the planet was COOLING!

EU Referendum: The way the money goes round

The happy snap shown above, taken at the end of March last year, shows Mr Tulsi Tanti shaking hands with a certain R K Pachauri. And despite the poor quality of the photograph, it is quite evident that Dr Pachauri has a demeanour not dissimilar to a cat that has just swallowed the cream – which, in a sense, he has.

Mr Tanti is no ordinary well-wisher. He is the chairman and managing director of the multi-million Indian energy firm, Suzlon Energy, which has major interests in renewable energy. It is the world's fifth leading wind turbine maker and also has solar power interests. And he has just signed an agreement with Dr Pachauri promising to fund a programme in renewable energy engineering and management at one of Dr Pachauri's spin-off enterprises, the TERI University.