Spring flowers a month late, National Trust gardeners find | Parks & Gardens | Horticulture Week

National Trust head of gardens and parks Mike Calnan said: "Garden plants are the perfect weather barometers."

"By comparing the number of plants in flower across various gardens on a set day each year and tracking those changes over time, we will be able to demonstrate how our gardens respond to weather patterns and ultimately climate change."

The coldest January in 23 years meant just 1,115 plants were recorded in flower this year across 12 gardens in Devon and Cornwall compared to 3,335 in 2008, when the highest count was recorded.

America's Food-To-Fuel Problem

Government enthusiasm for "green" initiatives has given us a series of allegedly well-intentioned programs that have been both environmental and economic disasters. Consider American ethanol. The two-headed beast that is good intentions and unintended consequences rears its ugly head in the form of environmental degradation and higher food prices--a source of inconvenience in rich countries but a matter of life and death in very poor ones.

Climate Common Sense: Antarctica is Actually Cooling Say Researchers

The Warmista have tried very hard to prove that Antarctica was warming including some very creative maths recentlly by Steig. For those of us who just like to make up our own minds here is a picture of a 115 foot transmission tower built in the mid sixties . Only 30 feet protrude in the late eighties and that is 85 feet of additional ice.

Tree-rings: Proxies for Temperature or CO2? « Climate Sanity

This time the thing that jumps out is that the correlation to CO2 is better in every single case. And these correlations to CO2 are not just a little better, they are a lot better.

Skeptic's Corner: AGW the Tiger Woods of Science

In a way it is like professional golf and Tiger Woods. It is now known that many of his peers and golf journalist were aware,at least in part, of Tiger's behavior over the years. Despite what they may have felt about it or him, they were more than willing to remain silent simply because Tiger Woods to professional golf was the golden goose. He popularized the sport as it never had been before, raising not only the games popularity but more importantly it raised the purses for his fellow competitors. Since Tiger Woods joined the PGA purses have increased by 285%. No wonder nobody was about to run out and tattle on Tiger.

The Climate Science Project, Part 2: How we know [that the "consensus" is bogus] « Climate Progress

Memo to climate scientists, environmentalists, and others: If you’re going to give an interview or speak in public, you need to know the FULL scientific literature. If you just stick to reading up on your area of expertise, you won’t have the sharpest answers for reporters or for a tough questioner in the audience.

Reading the BBC’s interview of Dr. Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the center of the hacked e-mail scandal, makes clear that even an experienced and widely published researcher like Jones doesn’t appear to know the full climate literature or the clearest answers to basic questions.