A record-breaking (and cold) Saturday morning | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota

Fargo’s Hector International Airport also had a chilly Saturday morning with a low of 33 below that was enough to break its Jan. 2 record of 32 below from 1885.

With science journalism “basically going out of existence,” how should climate scientists deal with well-funded, anti-science disinformation campaign? « Climate Progress

Ironically, human-caused global warming will be the greatest sustained story-line of all this century — particularly if the anti-science crowd keeps winning the news cycle and succeeds in delaying the necessary action long enough to ensure the world is subjected to the very worst consequences aka Hell and High Water.
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I long to see an organized effort by the scientific community to respond to the anti-science disinformation campaign, which has been well funded by the fossil fuel community and right wing. Educating the next generation of scientists to be better communicators is a terrific idea, but in the specific case of global warming, either this generation of scientists starts speaking much more directly and effectively to the public and policymakers — bypassing the soon-to-be-non-existent science media — or all the communications skills of the next generation of scientists will be all but irrelevant.

EU Referendum: Pachauri: follow the money

The New American concludes with a tantalising reference to Obama, and his enthusiasm for going "above what is going to be legislated," when it comes to climate change. This is not unconnected with the Chicago Climate Exchange, for which Pachauri is currently a member of the external advisory board.

Therein lies a dark and dirty tale. The Pachauri angle is just the tip of the iceberg. Serious money is involved here, to say nothing of corruption on an industrial scale, which goes all the way to the top. We have only scratched the surface so far.

CRU #3 – The next step « the Air Vent

This means that the one thermometer which may or may not exist in Muslim Somalia, is weighted according to it’s grid area rather than against the hundreds of thermometers that probably exist in the grid block containing New York.