The Climategate Chronicle: How the Science of Global Warming Was Compromised - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

To what extent is climate change actually occuring? Late last year, climate researchers were accused of exaggerating study results. SPIEGEL ONLINE has since analyzed the hacked "Climategate" e-mails and provided insights into one of the most unprecedented spats in recent scientific history.

Stimulus Waste: Taxpayers Foot Bill for Shoddy Weatherization Work in Texas | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Sheltering Arms Senior Services won a contract worth $22.3 million in stimulus funds to weatherize homes of low-income families in Houston, but a new report from Texas Watchdog reveals the work performed was so shoddy that 33 of 53 homes will need to be fixed.

C3: IPCC Honesty: An Oxymoron? (Or, Will They Ever Stop Lying?)

Is IPCC lying an addiction? A psychological disorder? Pathological contagion living within the climate alarmist science community? Over the past eight months, one is left simply jaw-gaping from the the uncovered falsehoods that the IPCC "science" effort generated in its 2007 report. Even with all the outrage the untruths have provoked, the lies just keep coming. The latest?

At his Amsterdam presentation, Pachauri claims that all the 18,000 plus publications used in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report are peer-reviewed.

Cold, wet weather kills purple martins

Four days of rain and temps in the 30's-40's have hit purple martins hard in
most of Minnesota. Preliminary numbers here in Kandiyohi county suggest we
had about 10% mortality by late yesterday, with a second group of birds too
weak to fly and soon to succumb. Combined with last year's large chick
die-off, it has been a tough 10 months on these little guys.

Canadian biologist blames loss of natural areas for decline in songbird species - Winnipeg Free Press

Stutchbury said the decline is the result of a loss of habitat due to clear-cutting and urban sprawl, not climate change.