- Bishop Hill blog - Mike Hulme on Climategate

Q: What about new media? Before CG, MH had never looked at a sceptical climate blog. Having now done so, he’d been astonished by the energy of the bloggers, although taken aback by the etiquette, which wasn’t what he was used to. He thought some sceptical blogs were useful and that some criticisms of climate science have a great deal of validity. Blogs challenge the peer review process. As a journal editor, he was familiar with the usual peer review methods and their shortcomings (eg reviewers chosen by a nod-and-a-wink) and accepted that some bloggers’ criticisms were valid.

The climate bully crashes « JoNova

As Simon Benson points out, to maintain the stalled Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, there are 61 senior bureaucrats earning top-notch salaries of up to $298,000 each.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

Ice extent for April 2010 was the largest for that month in the past decade.

Update To Andy Revkin’s Question In 2005 « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The 2010 answer to the question by Andy Revkin

“Is most of the observed warming over the last 50 years likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”?

remains NO.

New Article “Is There A Missing Low Cloud Feedback In Current Climate Models? By Graeme Stephens « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

This study further supports the finding that I reported early today that natural radiative forcings and feedbacks are more significant than concluded in the 2007 IPCC assessment.