Australian warming trend adjusted UP by 40% « JoNova

The BOM claim their adjustments are random and neutral. Yet when Ken looked at the raw data from Australia’s 100 high quality rural sites, the adjustments increased the trend in the raw data by 40% — from a 0.6°C rise over 100 years, to 0.85°C over 100 years.

Science Turns Authoritarian — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

Science is losing its credibility because it has adopted an authoritarian tone, and has let itself be co-opted by politics.

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association files lawsuit to change California's global warming ballot measure - San Jose Mercury News

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to rewrite the ballot description of Proposition 23, a measure voters will consider in November that would suspend California's global warming law.

Saying that state Attorney General Jerry Brown had deliberately written a misleading title and summary aimed at killing the measure, the taxpayers association asked a Sacramento County Superior Court to nullify and change it.

"Whether intentional or not, it certainly looks as though the attorney general has crafted a description intended to sway voters to vote 'no' on Prop. 23," said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.