The naysayers should talk to the hundreds of young people who spent weeks in intensive care recovering from swine flu - The Irish Times - Fri, Feb 05, 2010

Similar public naysaying has begun to percolate around the issue of climate change. People are told things will get warmer but then we get a major cold snap and people are ready to dismiss all the scientific facts piled up about climate change.

Their scepticism was fuelled by the embarrassing e-mails either leaked or hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. They pointed to manipulation of facts and tailoring of data in support of a human cause for global climate change.

Put “climategate” into your web browser to see how a powerful counter-culture view has sprung up on the issue. Yet if East Anglia disappeared under the waves of the rising sea level tomorrow, the research findings [which findings, specifically?] of another 2,400 scientists will still indicate anthropomorphic climate change is a reality.

You Could Not Make It Up: MET OFFICE RELYING ON AMATEUR COMPUTER, Daily Express | Climate Realists

A COMPUTER that cost £30million was supposed to improve weather forecasting at the Met Office.

But after a few blips, including last year’s “barbecue summer” that never was, officials are instead relying on an amateur, it was revealed yesterday.

Keith Davis, 48, collates rainfall, temperature and humidity readings from a homemade weather station in his garden in Tavistock, Devon. The Met Office contacts him for updates, despite its own modern technology.

Dalton Minimum Returns: New paper: Interglacials, Milankovitch Cycles and Carbon Dioxide

Carbon dioxide appears to play a very limited role in setting interglacial temperature.

CAP Clueless on Costs of Cap and Trade | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Perhaps CAP is desperate to ignore the flagging support for global-warming taxes, to ignore the embarrassing collapse of the supposed scientific consensus necessary for a climate imperative, and to ignore the extraordinary growth in taxation, national debt, unemployment, and regulatory burden their pet policy would create. But, desperation doesn’t justify ignoring economic reality.

Is Paul Dennis The Hero Of ClimateGate? « SOYLENT GREEN

If Dennis is the leaker, he deserves a ticker-tape parade and all the rock-star accoutrements he can get.

Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Dennis denies leaking the material. But it is understood that his links with climate change sceptic bloggers in North America drew him to the attention of the investigating team, and have exposed rifts within the university's environmental science faculty.

Dennis refused to sign a petition in support of Jones when the scandal broke. He told friends he was one of several staff unwilling to put their names to the Met Office-inspired statement in support of the global warming camp, because "science isn't done by consensus".