EU Referendum: Climate parasites

And, of course, all these dedicated, independent scientists are firmly convinced that climate change is a real and present danger. How could £63,245,372 be wrong? And then there are the 912 grants from the Natural Environment Research Council on climate change. At a mere £166,500,521, that also tends to concentrate a few minds – but that is another story.

Obama proposes $3,000 home energy rebates | Reuters

But Republicans seeking to wrest control of Congress from the Democrats have scored political points by expressing concern that what Obama frames as job creation efforts are overspending to expand the reach of government. The White House must also placate investors nervous about deficit spending as it seeks to stimulate job growth.

- Bishop Hill blog - CCE panel prelaunch minutes

Muir Russell's panel have published the minutes of a prelaunch meeting from a month ago. It's not hugely exciting but a few points are worth making:

* They have two PR people on the team

The University of East Anglia CRU comes clean: there WAS a medieval warm period | CLIMATEGATE

The infamous ‘hockey stick graph’ is now debunked even by those who used to worship it.

If you use a graph as evidence, then the data you used to make it up is therefore equally exposed as being faulty.

Al Fin: Planet Earth's Air Conditioner System Part 3

It is important for anyone wishing for a deeper understanding of climate to follow the cutting edge of logic in the science of climate. That cutting edge does not reside within mainstream climatology any longer, but instead rests firmly within the camp of the skeptics

C3: Latest Peer-Reviewed Research Indicates IPCC "CO2 Global Warming" Is Overstated By 3 Times, At Minimum

Since publication of IPCC 2007 report, new research has been published with findings that non-greenhouse gas factors have significantly raised global temperatures, which were not recognized by IPCC. If these factors were properly accounted for, real greenhouse gas (CO2) global warming since 1950 would be 0.204°C versus the "reported" 0.702°C. That drops the per century rate of GHG warming from 1.17°C to a measly 0.34° C per century.