UN to review errors made by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Times Online

A team of the world’s leading scientists will investigate the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and ask why its supposedly rigorous procedures failed to detect at least three serious overstatements of the risk from global warming.

MiltonConservative: Simple Chemistry and the Real Greenhouse Effect.

One gram of Carbon Dioxide heated at the surface by incident sunlight carries (2 * 539 = 1078) 1078 times less energy into the atmosphere than one gram of water.

Carbon dioxide represents 0.0387 % of the atmosphere. Water in the lower atmosphere represents 1% to 4% or 25 to 100 times the amount of carbon dioxide.

Combining the two statements above, Water is (25 * 1078 = 27,175) to (100 * 1078 = 108,700) times more responsible for greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide.

Mary Landrieu Now Won't Accept Bribes - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Politico:

Someone's feeling a little sensitive about the "Louisana Purchase"...

"That’s such an offensive question, it’s just offensive," said Louisana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, after being asked what she would "need" to see to support a climate bill during a hallway encounter in the Capitol Tuesday.

"It’s not what I need, it’s what I believe what the people that I represent believe. It’s not what I need."

Global Warming in Historical Perspective

This is a nice video which puts recent warming in perspective with temperatures of the last few hundred years…and the last few thousand years. When we examine the historical record, any warming that may have been occurring recently (and appears to have leveled off) is pretty tame.

But somehow the socialists expect us to ignore science and common sense and believe that our evil addiction to freedom and capitalism is wrecking our planet.

- Bishop Hill blog - Predicting climate 100 years from now

These are notes of a lecture given by Prof Tim Palmer on some of the fundamentals of weather prediction. The notes were taken by Simon Anthony. This is well worth a read, and I'm certainly struck by how little we know about how to forecast the climate.