World Climate Report » More or Less Intense Hurricanes?

The bottom line is that if a model doesn’t perform very well in a particular area of interest—in this case in simulating the observed frequency of intense hurricanes—then that model shouldn’t be considered a reliable estimator of how the characteristics of that area of interest will change in the future. And yet that is exactly what the Bender et al. article attempts to do. We at World Climate report, need a bit more convincing.

Mitchell Anderson | Urban Heat Island Myth is [Allegedly] Dead

A recent peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research looked at data from 114 weather stations from across the US over the last twenty years and compared measurements from locations that were well sited and those that weren’t.

They did find an overall bias, but it was towards cooling rather warming.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Brown Shattering Dem Unity?

Could Massachusetts Sen.-elect (and sound climate science advocate) Scott Brown be wrecking the Democrat agenda across the board? Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was joined today by three Democrat colleagues -- Arkansas's Blanche Lincoln, Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, and Nebraska's Ben Nelson -- in a move to prevent EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

Climategate Is Still Relevant (Alarmism discredited in public policy debate) — MasterResource

...today things have become relatively quiet. Though the media and much of the public have turned their attention to other stories, including the failure of climate politics in Copenhagen and the backlash against Obama’s Chicago-hard politics, a key lesson from Climategate remains: climate policy has not and is not being guided by sound science.

American Thinker: Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg

Smith, who had a family member attached to the 101st Airborne at the time, refers to the famous line from the 101st commander, U.S. Army General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, who replied to a German ultimatum to surrender the December, 1944 Battle of Bastogne, Belgium with a single word: “Nuts.”

And that’s exactly what we’d be were we to surrender our freedoms, our economic growth, and even our simplest comforts, to duplicitous zealots before checking and double checking the work of the prophets predicting our doom should we refuse.