Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: New Scientist Wants an Explanation

I discussed this situation last month in a post in which I argued that the problem here is not that the IPCC made a mistake. That is just troubling. The greater problem is how the IPCC has responded to having a mistake pointed out...
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That the IPCC has made some important mistakes is very troubling, but perhaps understandable given the magnitude of the effort. Its reluctance to deal with obvious errors is an even greater problem reflecting poorly on an institution that has become too insular and politicized.

Unfortunately, the glacier error is not unique. The IPCC contains a number of other egregious errors that also deserve some answers.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cuban cold snap kills 26 patients in mental hospital

It’s also worth pointing out that a mass of people dying of hypothermia in the tropics doesn’t exactly bolster the claims of global-warming activists.

Is the NOAA, not CRU, is ground zero for exaggerated global warming data? | CLIMATEGATE

Smith and D’Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations.

Investors.com - Will Californians Repeal Cap-And-Trade?

A 2009 study by economists at California State University, Sacramento, commissioned by the California Small Business Roundtable, found that implementation costs for AB32 "could easily exceed $100 billion" and that the program would raise the cost of living by $7,857 per household each year by 2020.

"This has been the blind leading the blind, political correctness that has collapsed the economy in California," says Logue. "California already has the fifth-cleanest air in the country, so why are we doing this when no one else is?" California obviously wants to lead by example, even if it means going over an economic cliff.