John Kerry, T. Boone Pickens bury the hatchet with climate-change bil

no Republicans have stepped up to support Kerry's bill

Cure For Global Warming – Invade Canada! « Musings from the Chiefio

The “hot” Arctic is easily explained as an artifact of how the baseline data were selected (see the Benchmarking The Baseline posting for more on that) as this graph of “baseline vs all-data” shows they picked a time of cold Arctic temps for the baseline:

Climate Observations: Tom Karl’s Trends Are Wrong - At Least in Slide 21

A number of bloggers on the WattsUpWithThat thread “Tom Karl’s Senate Dog & Pony Show – it’s worse than we thought, again” noted the curious errors in the trend lines in Tom Karl’s presentation to Senate. The one that stood out for me was slide 21, presented here as Figure 1. It showed the global land surface temperature anomalies and linear trends for the new (Version 3) versus existing (Version 2) Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) dataset.