[Dangerous insanity]: Global warming “more dangerous” than terrorism

Global warming and climate change affects all countries, rich and poor alike, and are more dangerous than even terrorism, which targets only specific countries, according to D.R. Karthikeyan, former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Potato crop destroyed by frost - Cyprus Mail

SEVENTY per cent of potato crops suffered extensive damage in the Famagusta district, farmers complained yesterday.

AKEL deputy Yiannakis Gabriel told reporters the damage caused to crops due to the past three nights’ freezing temperatures had brought about irreversible damage. He said the damage was 80 to 90 per cent complete and had been verified by Agriculture department officials who had visited the area.

Agrimoney.com | Juice jumps after USDA flags Florida frost damage

Orange juice jumped 6% in New York to within 5 cents of a two-year high after Washington slashed its estimate for Florida's citrus crop because of damage caused by last month's "arctic" weather conditions.

Charlotte Business Journal: Duke Energy CEO hits local TV for carbon [scam] regulation

Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers has made the rounds of television and radio broadcasts today, including unusual appearances on local stations, stumping for climate control legislation on behalf of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership.

Part 11: 'Climategate' was PR disaster that could bring healthy reform of peer review | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Schneider told the Guardian there might be some middle ground – especially over researchers' highly prized and personally written computer codes. Maybe, like commercial patents, they should be allowed exclusive use of their own codes, as their own intellectual property, for two or three years. [If taxpayers are paying for the research, why should the code be secret?] That, he said, would be time enough to "publish the initial papers using their hard work". But after that, the codes should all be disclosed. He added: "This broad discussion about the boundaries of data transparency, personal codes and exclusive rights... may be the only positive that might emerge from this unfortunate incident."

But many sceptics are not satisfied with such half-way houses. Many sceptic bloggers are in full cry against the entire peer review process. They talk about "peer-to-peer" review. Meaning an end to centralised control through journals and a free for all in which everything is published and anyone can comment on anything. A journalist active in this movement, the West Coast former street artist and radical arts critic Patrick Courrielche, claims: "Climategate... triggered the death of unconditional trust in the scientific peer-review process, and the maturing of a new movement of peer-to-peer review."

Can an entirely free intellectual market deliver better science? Can the pioneers of scientific review on the blogosphere do better than the journals? Would this ensure quality control or shatter it? Should the Jeffrey Archers of the scientific world have as much access to the journals as the Nobel laureates? They may shudder in the labs, but we may one day find out.