How Wrong Is the IPCC? | Alarmist Kate Sheppard - Mother Jones

It's clear that the IPCC needs to take significant action or face a collapse of public confidence in not just the IPCC as a scientific body, but climate science in general.

Energy Tribune- The Latest on the Ethanol Scam: US Ethanol Industry’s Grain Consumption in 2009 Was Enough to Feed 330 Million People

Some headlines are so telling, that you don’t really need to write the story to go with them. So I’ll keep this story short and focus primarily on the facts that were revealed by the Earth Policy Institute last month. The think tank reports that in 2009, US ethanol distilleries consumed 107 million tons of grain. That amounts to more than 25% of total US grain production. That quantity of grain, says Earth Policy, “was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels.”

Head of UEA inquiry to outline scope of review into hacked climate emails | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Despite exaggerated blog and media claims, the emails do not provide evidence of collusion among scientists to fabricate data or invent hoax warming claims. However, a major investigation by the Guardian has established that the scientists involved went to great lengths to block FoI requests, abused the peer review process to exclude rivals and apparently suppressed data flaws.

Delaware: Additional snowfall stresses roofs to point of collapse

The weight of two heavy snowfalls in five days caused roofs across the state to collapse Wednesday, and officials fear many more are in danger of caving in over the next several days.

Though no injuries were reported, roofs came down at Seaford Elementary School, the Big Lots in Milford, Townsend Fire Co. and a catering company in a business park near Ogletown, state officials said. There were other reports that the Delaware Emergency Management Agency could not immediately confirm but is investigating, said Andrea Summers, a spokeswoman for state emergency responders working on the blizzard.

Post Carbon: Alarmist Juliet Eilperin - washingtonpost.com

Since few things fascinate people as much as extreme weather, this year's series of blizzards might touch off a new round of scientific inquiry into the question of what it means to have more moisture stored in the atmosphere above the ocean.

Flashback: Wash. Post's Juliet Eilperin Rejects Journalistic Balance -- Touts 'Political' UN Climate Scare Report | Climate Depot

Eilperin clearly needs to broaden her climate research and retool her journalism skills. (Hopefully, any influence of Eilperin's husband Andrew Light -- who bills himself as a climate "specialist" at the man-made global warming fear promoting Center for American Progress -- will wane as she realizes that the quality of her reporting is slipping way behind her colleagues. The Center for American Progress is also home to the comical figure Joe Romm) [Update: October 16, 2009: Quin Hillyer, Senior editorial writer at The Washington Times, questions Eilperin's potential conflict of interest. "I also seriously question the Post leaving her on a beat on which her own husband has such a direct professional interest," Hillyer wrote. "Eilperin has an obvious APPARENT conflict of interest on it even if she is scrupulously objective. If I were a Post editor, I would move her somewhere else -- with a promotion," Hillyer explained.]