Mitchell Anderson | Why Won't Monckton Join the Scientific "Debate"?

It is strange that someone that spends so much time hectoring scientists never seems to attend scientific conferences, or have his material published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. [like Gore and Pachauri do?]
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If Mr. Monckton has such important things to say to the climate researchers of the world, why doesn’t he step off the cloistered speaking circuit and stride into the scientific lion’s den?

RIGHT BEFORE IT WAS WRONG | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

So the science wasn’t settled after all:

Professor Christopher Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution in California, who is the new co-chairman of the IPCC working group overseeing the climate impacts report, said the 2007 report had been broadly accurate at the time it was written.

He said: “The 2007 study should be seen as “a snapshot of what was known then. Science is progressive. If something turns out to be wrong we can fix it next time around.”

Global warming, the Red Cross and the Law of the Seas

The IPCC--perhaps pushed by some politicians and scientists--certainly tried to make the problem sound urgent. Perhaps they tried too hard. Polar bears are not drowning in pools of melted ice. The Himalayan glaciers are not exhibiting unusual behavior. The Amazon is not turning into kindling due to present or projected global warming. When children on a playground yell 'Look here! Look here!' and there's nothing to see, they don't suddenly become popular. But that's no real reason to demonize the IPCC.

It's the fact that they are a political organisation with a political purpose and a political audience that doomed them. They subcontracted out the literature reviews that feed their reports--and apparently chose their subcontractors for political reasons. So they synthesized rumors sometimes instead of science, and some scientists panicked when asked to back up the lurid statements of disaster. They deleted emails and hid the decline.

The Reference Frame: Ozone hole, a dying ally in fight against AGW

The New York Times, The Scotsman, and Science Daily write about a new paper that essentially argues that the ozone hole - which has been healing for many years - was a good thing because it slowed the global warming on the Southern Hemisphere.

Garnaut urges Rudd to call early climate change [hoax] election | Australian Climate Madness

If Rudd thinks he can win an election on climate change, after the disaster in Copenhagen, after the warmist camp and the IPCC have been shaken to their very foundations by Climategate, Glaciergate, Amazongate and all the other "gates" that will happen in the next few months, after Pachauri has been shown to be hopelessly mired in conflict in his role as IPCC head, after the ETS has been exposed as a pointless tax that will do nothing for the environment, then he is even more deluded than we give him credit for.

Actually, Kevin Rudd hasn't even mentioned climate change this year! Not once! Hardly the sign of a top priority policy is it?