EU Referendum: BOGOF

Not to be outdone, the IPCC has produced a report on Climate Change and Water in its "technical paper" series. And in that one report, not only do we get the multi-purpose "WWF 2005" reference cited, for added value we also get another citation of "Rowell and Moore, 2000".

I think this is what they call in the supermarkets, BOGOF – buy one, get one free. How many "mistakes" is that, Dr Pachauri?

William M. Briggs, Statistician » What Do Barney Miller and IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri Have In Common?

In 1977, on the Barney Miller episode “Blizzard”—for those under 40: a cop sitcom—a man who was poking people with a sharp stick was arrested.

The man wanted to bring “awareness” to people, to “wake them up” about the coming ice age.

As he was being booked, he told Sgt. Dietrich, “Did you know that the polar ice cap is increasing at 46% per year?”

It was the end of the world.

GHCN Another Way « the Air Vent

You can see that the data records from all the long stations stopped around 1990, with only one series recorded in recent times (where all the global warming occured). So, since CRU claims that the data they have for each station is directly from GHCN, how did they get so many years of continuous data for station number 25563? I’ve already spent hours looking into this question in an attempt to reverse engineer the process. I could take the easy road and send an email to UEA — do you think they would help the climategate blogger figure this out? Anyway, it’s time to go to work this Monday morning, so we’ll get to look at the next exciting bit tonight or tomorrow. CRUGlue, adhering the data .

Climate Observations: Mid-January 2010 SST Anomaly Update

Weekly NINO3.4 SST anomalies for the week centered on January 20, 2010 show a drop of 0.48 deg C over the past four weeks. Presently they’re at 1.45 deg C. It appears the 2009/10 El Nino has peaked. Assuming the 2009/10 El Nino won’t become a multiyear El Nino, the questions now: how quickly will NINO3.4 SST anomalies drop and how severe will the La Nina be?

- Bishop Hill blog - +++No Climategate FoI prosecutions+++

It seems quite clear that civil servants are able to withhold and destroy information without any consequences and it's interesting to ponder how such a dramatic flaw can have found its way into the terms of the Act.

Pivot to Economic Illiteracy - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

That's the thing about "green jobs." They require more man-hours per kilowatt hour (or similar measure of energy created). Our five Democratic senators seem not to notice that this is the definition of "inefficiency." Which is why, as the same story notes, Obama recently said that until his most recent infusion of subsidies the wind and solar industries were "about to collapse."

Google Translate: Melting confidence

Embarrassing breakdown in the IPCC: The prediction that 2035 has almost all the Himalayan glaciers will have disappeared, is scientific nonsense.  Other forecasts are based on questionable sources. Does IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel laureate step down?

The greatest crisis area in the world lies at Siachen Glacier. In 6000 meters of altitude are compared with Indian and Pakistani soldiers in heavily armed positions.  4,000 men died in the eternal border dispute between two nuclear powers already - most of the cold.