Trends in Disaster Losses « Climate Audit

Pielke Jr responds to the IPCC statement responding to Jonathan Leake’s Sunday Times article. Here. Roger described IPCC claims of balance on the issue in dispute as follows:

The only balance that was achieved was between misrepresentation and error.

Joe D’Aleo and Anthony Watts — new report: Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception? at Heliogenic Climate Change

1. Instrumental temperature data for the pre-satellite era (1850-1980) have been so widely, systematically, and unidirectionally tampered with that it cannot be credibly asserted there has been any significant “global warming” in the 20th century.

The Four ‘Gates’ of the IPCC « JoNova

All Gates lead to humiliation and embarrassment for the followers of the great cult of the carbonista’s.

And we haven’t yet got even close to the scandal of the faulty assumptions that led to the faulty models and alarmist predictions in the first place, or the even bigger scandal of how the observational evidence that proves the assumptions false is and was ignored by the IPCC.

Cold weather claims more lives in Europe

BUCHAREST - A deep freeze gripping Europe claimed more lives Tuesday as record low temperatures combined with snow and ice to disrupt travel, close schools and trigger emergency measures.

Ten people died of cold in Poland, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday, after 11 on Sunday, raising the death toll since November to 212 -- mainly homeless men -- while around 5,000 homes in the south were without electricity

In Romania, one of the worst-hit nations, 33 people have died in six days, with 11 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the ministry of health said.