CapitalClimate: Washington, DC Snow Video Gallery

HuffPo links to this YouTube time-lapse video of the storm

Die Klimazwiebel: A lesson for the IPCC?

Remember, the IPCC's aim is to be scientific and political at the same time. It wants to come up with a shared position, and we have seen how the drive for political consensus muddies scientific findings.

Die Klimazwiebel: Future of IPCC

[Eduardo Zorita] As with finance, climate assessment is too important to be left in the hands of advocates.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Seasonal Climate Forecasts Do Not Have Skill

The models have to forecast data that was never before seen. It is no good—no good at all—to show how well a model “forecast” data it already knew. You can’t fit the model to data on hand and then show how close that model is to the old data. That’s cheating.

In The Greenie World, Even Games Need A Threat To Exist « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

In City Rain, you play as a member of an elite environmental Swat Force in charge of restructuring cities, before they are penalized by the World Environment Protection agency. City Rain is an action-packed, yet eco-friendly, green city simulation puzzle.

- Bishop Hill blog - Russell review under way

My first reaction is that the appointment of Philip Campbell will be severely criticised, given Nature's highly questionable role in some of the back story to the Hockey Stick affair and earlier scandals like the Huang borehole paper. (Update: and of course there was the legendary "deniers" editorial in Nature too). This is a big mistake by Sir Muir. The others are unfamiliar names, however, which is probably a better sign.