Why Climate-Change Legislation Won't Pass Senate - Newsweek.com

Obama has long advocated for comprehensive legislation that would put a price on carbon to encourage polluters to invest in cleaner resources and practices. But he's probably right that the Senate won't choose that path. The most likely outcome is not a climate-change bill but energy legislation that doesn't cap greenhouse-gas emissions or penalize polluters.

- Bishop Hill blog - Might the hearings not happen at all?

Guido Fawkes, (the top UK political blog, for the benefit of non-UK readers) is reporting that BBC political teams have been told not to go away over the weekend, this warning representing a red-alert for a potential general election announcement.

I think I'm right in saying that if an election is indeed called, Parliament will be dissolved and the CRU hearings will not take place.

Cyber-bullies on both sides of climate debate - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Professor Plimer says after releasing his latest book he received up to 1,000 emails a day, many of them abusive.

Snow Days - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Today was a snow day for my younger son (video evidence below) and tens of thousands of other kids in the Northeast — all part of the remarkably snowy winter experience in much of the United States, Europe and a variety of other places in the Northern hemisphere, even as parts of Greenland have been balmy and rainy (one reason is that the Arctic Oscillation is once again in one of its extreme negative phases).

EU Referendum: Quality, not volume

...The mindset is focused on trying to make "inconvenient truths" fit the hypothesis, rather than evaluating the new conditions to see if they refute it.

This mindset is further betrayed by the egregious Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. As to why global temperatures have not matched a peak set in 1998, or in 2005, his view is that there could be a failure to account for rapid warming in parts of the Arctic, where sea ice had melted, and where there were fewer monitoring stations.

In other words, Trenberth is unable to accept evidence of cooling. It must be an artefact – the result of an incomplete monitoring network.