Die Klimazwiebel: IPCC - sea level meeting in Kuala Lumpur

Among the interesting details were introductory talks by political officials – who welcomed the presence of the conference in the capital of Malaysia, and demonstrated the importance of the topic by pointing to the evidence of climate change, which would become obvious by all kind of extreme weather, mostly related to typhoons and flooding. It seems that also in this part of the world the view has firmly be established among politicians that all extreme weather is due to anthropogenic climate change – which would imply that "stopping" Global Warming would go along with the end of weather extremes.
This was said in public in front of, say 100 climate scientists and science administrators (incl. Dr. Pachauri) , and – of course, nobody said anything. They did not take this talking seriously – assuming that the horizon for forgetting such talk would be really short. But then, one of the co-chairs of Working Group 1, which is organizing the conference, pointed bravely and explicitly to the extra challenge that the provision of valid scientific knowledge to the public and stakeholders would have to talk place in a politically charged environment.
Seemingly, this politically charged environment had just been demonstrated minutes earlier – illustrating nicely the presence of two competing knowledge claims, the media-cultural one (according to which extreme weather is due to Global Warming) and the scientific body of knowledge.
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...the culprit of "basal lubrication" was declared of mostly irrelevant for the future of the Greenland ice sheet.

[Yet another massive climate hoax conference]

The theme of the three-day, international conference in Bonn is “The Heat Is On – Climate Change and the Media”. Representatives from science, politics, business and the media will discuss what the media can do to create awareness for one of the major challenges of our time.
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Approximately 1,500 people from 95 countries will be participating in this the third Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum.

Yankees 4, Mets 0 - Teixeira’s Slam Is All Sabathia Needs to Beat Santana - NYTimes.com

“I think it’s global warming,” Manager Joe Girardi said. “Because in April, he had a great month, and he’s usually a slow starter, and in May, he struggled. I mean, they seem to chalk up so many things to global warming. I don’t know. He was a little off. That’s all I can tell you.”