Climategate: two more bricks fall out of the IPCC wall of deceit – rainforests and polar bears – Telegraph Blogs

Oops! There go another two bricks, tumbling out of the IPCC wall of deceit on man-made global warming – there is not a lot left now; even the Berlin Wall (to which the AGW construct is ideologically allied) has survived better. Unhappily for Al, Phil, Michael, George and the rest of the scare-mongers, these two discredited components are among the most totemic in the AGW religion.

Christie: State budget "requires sacrifice" | APP.com | Asbury Park Press

Christie's budget also counts on $65 million in increased sales-tax revenue by repealing Bergen County "blue laws'' that prevent the malls in Paramus, for instance, from opening on Sundays.

More than $335 million in one-shot transfers would be made, cumulatively, from 16 funds, including nearly $92 million from Urban Enterprise Zones (which would receive no funding for the year), $65 million from a global-warming fund [wasn't that money supposed to be used to prevent carbon dioxide from killing our grandchildren?] and $40 million from the Motor Vehicle Commission.

Cold weather puts freeze on business says Lloyds TSB Commercial - Business Credit News UK

The business climate for smaller firms suffered as a result of the extremely cold winter, a new report has suggested.

Compiled by Lloyds TSB Commercial, the report estimated that the worst winter in many years cost the UK''s small businesses as much as 7.3 billion.

According to the survey, seven out of ten small firms were adversely affected by the severe weather.

Hide the decline and rewrite history? « JoNova

Frank Lansner has found an historical graph of northern hemisphere temperatures from the mid 70’s, and it shows a serious decline in temperatures from 1940 to 1975. It’s a decline so large that it wipes out the gains made in the first half of the century, and brings temperatures right back to what they were circa 1910. The graph was not peer reviewed, but presumably it was based on the best information available at the time. In any case, if all the global records are not available to check, it’s impossible to know how accurate or not this graph is. The decline apparently recorded was a whopping 0.5°C.

But, three decades later, by the time Brohan and the CRU graphed temperatures in 2006 from the same old time period, the data had been adjusted (surprise), so that what was a fall of 0.5°C had become just a drop of 0.15°C. Seventy percent of the cooling was gone.

Maybe they had good reasons for making these adjustments. But, as usual, the adjustments were in favor of the Big Scare Campaign, and the reasons and the original data are not easy to find.