"Real"Climate: Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills

That’s the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today. I know, it’s apples and oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the environment than it is as CO2 (although CO2 may be more damaging on geologic time scales).

The absurdity of the UN’s CDM at Heliogenic Climate Change

“The revision would ensure that the CDM projects achieve actual mitigation because it would remove the current financial incentive that causes plants to produce gas for the sole purpose of getting paid to destroy it …”, explains Eva Filzmoser, Director of CDM Watch.

How to improve the IPCC : Nature News

"The IPCC was never prepared for the situation that someone would come up with criticism that could be perceived as credible," comments climate scientist Hans von Storch, a director of the Institute for Coastal Research in Geesthacht, Germany, and a contributor and author on the IPCC's second and third assessment reports, respectively. "The IPCC is really amateurishly organized in this regard."

The Reference Frame: John Christy: an excellent witness in Montreal

John Christy (02:11:55 - 02:43:15 in the file embedded above, 31 minutes in total; questions begin on 02:24:08) has explained how the climate scientists (and especially IPCC lead authors) have become gatekeepers and their community has become a victim of groupthink, exaggerations, Hollywood movies; how his papers and opinions were deliberately ignored by the process; how good an idea it is to listen to Steve McIntyre; how unpredictable the climate is - especially the regional one; and how cruel it may be to make electricity less accessible, especially in the third world, so you should be damn certain about your assumptions (and you should better have several reasons to implement a far-reaching policy).