Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: Bizarre Climategate Update #3: IPCC Chairman Writes Racy Novel

...The rest of us will just have to see the book's existence as a possible explanation for why the IPCC chairman "didn't notice" the many errors and non-peer-reviewed sources in the last IPCC report.

It’s Green Against Green In Mojave Desert Solar Battle by Todd Woody: Yale Environment 360

Few places are as well suited for large-scale solar projects as California’s Mojave Desert. But as mainstream environmental organizations push plans to turn the desert into a center for renewable energy, some green groups — concerned about spoiling this iconic Western landscape — are standing up to oppose them.

Jan. breaks record for consecutive days below freezing | Gainesville.com

The 13 days, Jan. 2-14, were the most since record keeping began in 1891.

ETS the only option, says Treasury on climate change

THE Intergenerational Report has panned Tony Abbott's proposed direct action approach to climate change, saying a market-based mechanism such as the federal government's emissions trading scheme is the only way to go.

The report says that without an overall cap on carbon emissions such as that contained in the government's emissions trading scheme, coal-fired electricity generation, the nation's largest source of carbon pollution, will grow strongly in the decades ahead while the development of alternative energy sources will flatline.

The report, released yesterday by the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, also forecasts that anybody still alive in 90 years will be $17,000 a year worse off in today's dollars if climate change is allowed to go unmitigated.  [How can Wayne Swan calculate the state of the weather and the world's economy 90 years from now?]