Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Guardian on Pachauri

A good way to avoid giving succor to skeptics is to distinguish advice from advocacy, and to have in place transparent and cerdible guidelines for managing conflicts of interest. The IPCC does neither.

[By the way, I'm not sure it's wise for Pachauri to compare himself to Unsinkable Molly [Margaret] Brown]

Margaret boarded the passenger liner RMS Titanic as a first class passenger at Cherbourg, France.

Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg.

Top Australian scientists on climate change: Garbage In, Garbage Out | CLIMATEGATE

Just like climatologists at the UK’s Climatic Research Unit, at the University of East Anglia, their Australian warmist counterparts have also had to admit that they “fudged” the data to build their case for global warming.

ScienceNow Daily says 2009 hottest year south of equator. Skeptic says hogwash. | CLIMATEGATE

Roger Pielke, Sr. of Climate Science disagrees. He says their claim fails the reality check when even a cursory examination of the data (the ”multiple lines of evidence“) is made. Hop over to Roger’s site and take a read and check out his temperature anomaly maps.

Forest Carbon [Swindle] Offsets in the Ozarks - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

CE2 Carbon Capital, an investor in carbon emissions reduction projects, and Dogwood Carbon Solutions, an agency that helps private landowners gain access to the carbon credits market, announced last week that they have joined forces to develop carbon offsets on 300,000 acres of forest land in the Ozark mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas.

CE2 said it is investing $10 million [or at a dime a ton, 100 million carbon credits] to roll out the program, called the Red Fern Project, which will involve developing a pool of landowners who agree to manage their forests in a more sustainable manner, and in ways that remove additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.