Financial Times [Feb 1, 2010]: To estore confidence, it should commission an independent audit of IPCC 2007 Assesment

The amateurishness of the Himalayan claim makes it look more like a blunder than something sinister. But given the IPCC's central role in climate science, it needs to be whiter than white. To restore confidence, it should commission an independent audit. This would look at all the claims in the 2007 report and remove any that were not soundly based. The auditor might also look at the IPCC's decision to report only those findings that fall within a certain consensus. Is it really right to exclude scientifically rigorous but outlying opinions, especially when this hands ammunition to its critics, who accuse it of suppressing dissenting views? Lastly, the IPPC must be smarter in the way it engages with the wider world. Mr Pachauri's handling of the allegations has been lamentable. Considerably more humility in the face of criticism is required.

The IPCC must learn from this gaffe. Not only is its own credibility at stake, but possibly the cause of climate science also.

North Texas deals with record snow's aftermath

This week's storm dumped 12.5 inches of snow at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in the 24 hours between 4 a.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Friday. That broke the previous 24-hour mark of 12.1 inches set on Jan. 15-16, 1964.

The storm wreaked carnage on the region's trees.
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Live Oak Street could have been renamed Dead Oak Street, with parts of the wide boulevard strewn with branches felled by the weight of the snow. The scene was similar on stately Swiss Avenue, where branches up to 20 feet long littered the roadway.
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 The storm brought aggravation for the 800 or so members of Central Pointe Church of Christ in Dallas' Red Bird area. Heavy snow caused the sanctuary roof to collapse.

Gym roof collapses at Blacksburg High School - Virginia

It is not the first roof collapse at a school this winter. On Dec. 21, a section of the cafeteria roof at Roanoke County's Fort Lewis Elementary School collapsed under the weight of 18 inches of snow that fell Dec. 18-19.

Blacksburg has had more than 50 inches of snow this winter and 28 inches since Jan. 29, according to the National Weather Service.

Snow causes roof collapse at Rahr & Sons Brewing | Fort Worth | Texas

Heavy, wet snow brought down much of the roof at the microbrewery just south of downtown Fort Worth on Friday.

Many meteorologists break with science of global warming - KansasCity.com

It is a quiet controversy about global warming. At least one local broadcaster had been hoping to keep it quiet.

But after considerable persuasion last week, the Fox affiliate WDAF reluctantly allowed its chief meteorologist, Mike Thompson, to explain in an e-mail to The Kansas City Star why he breaks from the scholarly worldview of the causes of climate change.

“It has become completely political — it’s not about science at all,” he wrote in an e-mail. “If science were the objective, then we would be seeing an entirely different debate. But there are agendas at play, and it has undermined the credibility of climate science.”

Others in his profession share that view.

American Thinker: Climategate's Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud

In a BBC Q&A and corresponding interview released Friday, the discredited Climategate conspirator revealed a number of surprising insights into his true climate beliefs, the most shocking of which was that 20th-century global warming may not have been unprecedented.  As the entire anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory is predicated on correlation with rising CO2 levels, this first-such confession from an IPCC senior scientist is nothing short of earth-shattering.
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...the level of deception perpetrated by Jones and his co-conspirators at the Climatic Research Unit will likely remain the yardstick by which climate fraud is measured for years to come….

…And always remembered as the beginning of the end of the international AGW hoax.

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