iowahawk: Citizen Gore

Then, the great Global Warming collapse of 2010. Muckraking reporters from Gore's rival, the Internet-Examiner, released the East Anglia emails dooming the carbon market. In the days following the crash, one Gore climate speech is canceled. And another. And yet more. He is laughed off the nation's stage and retreats to the opulent solitude of Montecito. Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace, aloof, never visited, seldom photographed, an emperor left to direct his failing empire. Vainly attempting to sway the destinies of the planet that was no longer interested in his apocalyptic visions of drowning penguins.

Then, last week, as it must to all men, the Green Reaper came to visit Albert Arnold Gore. Only a few dignitaries were on hand for the funeral procession as the black Prius hearse bore its solemn burden to its final resting place -- Laurie David's compost heap.

The La Nina shark rises to bite « JoNova

Does this herald the end of this years warm spell?

Frank Lansner has been watching the Southern Oscillation Index and noticed it’s rapid climb out of El Nino territory.

global warming want to bet « Calder's Updates

As reported by Jim Giles in Nature, Mashnich and Bashkirtsev said that the average global surface temperature in 2012-17 would be lower than in 1998-2003, using data from the US National Climatic Data Center. Solar activity certainly seems to have declined in the Russians’ favour. But like the gamblers themselves, onlookers must now wait until 2018 to know the outcome.

Benefits of organic food a 'myth' | The Daily Telegraph

ORGANIC food does not have greater nutritional value than conventionally grown food, a major University of Sydney study has found.

In a result that will provoke dismay and anger in the organics industry, the study's authors found that food grown without pesticides or herbicides should not be promoted as healthier because there was no evidence to show that it contained more nutrients than normal food.