RealClimate: Good news for the earth’s climate system?

The authors found that in 98.5% of their regressions, CO2 lagged temperature.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » AGW belief takes a big hit in the UK

When the public support for AGW was at 41%, the AGW activists had a chance of getting their agenda passed into law. At 26%, they don’t have a prayer, and the rising level of skepticism and cynicism will likely result in less money and less attention for their programs.

The Reference Frame: Chinese media impressed by Fred Singer

The Chinese journalist used some old Chinese wisdom to predict that the number and depth of recent scandals we have seen is enough for the IPCC to perish.

EPA abandons science yet again at Heliogenic Climate Change

For example, Cornell agricultural ecologist David Pimental and colleagues in a paper last year concluded that no crop produced more fuel than the energy used to grow it and convert it to ethanol or biodiesel. They found a negative energy return of 46 percent for corn ethanol, 50 percent for switchgrass, 63 percent for soybean biodiesel and 58 percent for rapeseed. Even the most promising palm oil production results in a minus 8 percent net energy return.”

Lawrence Solomon: IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas - FP Comment

Two years ago, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was the world’s most celebrated organization, guardian of the world against the peril of climate change and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for “its outstanding scientific work!”

Today, the IPCC stands among the world’s most infamous organizations, its reputation in tatters, unable to respond to a growing chorus of critics because the critics now include many of its once-fiercest champions, among them its own scientists, and because its chairman and chief spokesman, India’s Rajendra Pachauri, is himself thoroughly disgraced. “The IPCC needs to regain credibility. Is that going to happen with Pachauri?,” asks John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK, “I don’t think so.”

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Systemic Failure: Invasion of the Drama Queens

You have to be a bit of a drama queen to interpret a few degrees increase in temperature over the span of a century as a catastrophe. The fact that this mindset has been adopted by so many people means the failure has been systemic.