Complete Microblogging Of Tonight’s Pielke Jr vs Ward vs Muir Wood London Debate « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

I will blog with more details in the next few days or maybe even tonight: for now, you can read the whole thing as microblogged live by me on Twitter starting from here.

There has been a remarkable consensus and at one point it even looked like they were going to kiss each other. For example everybody agreed the IPCC procedures must be considerably changed before next report is out…

Signs of Damage to Public Trust in Climate Findings - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

As recently as last week, senior members of the intergovernmental climate panel had told me that some colleagues did not see the need for changes in practices and were convinced that the recent flareup over errors in the 2007 report was a fleeting inconvenience. I wonder if they still feel that way.

Australia "out of step" with the rest of the world on emissions trading | Australian Climate Madness

The Rudd government's position on climate is looking increasingly lame and out of touch with reality, and secretly I would bet Kev would love to see the whole thing ditched - it will be a political disaster. But he cannot be seen to do that, having branded climate change "the greatest moral challenge of our generation", so I think they will just let the Coalition defeat it in the Senate and hopefully move on to other things.

Prius' woes not limited to brakes - latimes.com

The most persistent problem involves headlights. Since 2001, Prius owners have lodged more than 1,300 complaints about exterior lights shutting off without warning, most frequently the headlights.

According to complaints, the high-intensity discharge (HID) headlights, anoption on the Prius, shut off without warning, sometimes in dangerous situations, leading to four crashes and at least one injury.