Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Rare heavy snow strikes Gansu in May - People's Daily Online
An unusual heavy snowfall suddenly hit Zhangye city in Gansu province on May 17, and the thickest snow reached 20 centimeters. Due to sudden low temperatures and snowfall in early summer, more than 533 thousand hectares of farmland suffered frost damage and some greenhouses collapsed.
Pajamas Media » Climategate 2010: The Inconvenient Facts About Global Warming
While allowing much room for disagreement on the details, the attendees at ICCC4 seemed to agree on one thing: policies with such enormous consequences should be based on the facts, however inconvenient they might turn out to be.
The Reference Frame: Christiana Figueres: new U.N. climate boss
To be sure that the same pseudointellectual junk and political propaganda will continue to contaminate this portion of the international political scene, check her "campaign":
Climate Science Policy Needs a “Team B” (Big Science + Big Government = Bad Science & Policy) — MasterResource
Having independent peer review is not a new idea.
ICCC – Day Two « Musings from the Chiefio
I think you can see from these short descriptions just how much is going on here. The number of new insights per day is in some ways stunning. Nagging questions like “Why are only some winter months ‘warming’?” and “Why is Arctic ice reducing when the Arctic air has been cooling for a couple of years?” answered in every session. Even “Should I buy that Florida Condo?” 8-)
The Canadian National Newspaper: Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarm

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