BBC News - Devon's snow ice and freezing weather cost £7.5m

Snow and freezing temperatures over the winter cost Devon County Council £7.5m, it has been revealed.

Utilities are trying to pull off the scam of the decade | Grist

A deal to exempt utilities from new Clean Air Act rules in exchange for their support for a utility-only cap-and-trade system would be a terrible deal. Terrible. I've resisted the repeated tendency of greens to say this or that compromise renders the climate bill "worse than nothing," but this deal really would do that: it would make the bill worse than nothing. It would be a step backward, on both climate and health grounds. Any environmental group that supports such a deal should be scorned by progressives and cut off by progressive funders. (I'm extremely gratified to hear Samuelsohn report that green groups are, so far, holding firm on this.)

Jim Hoggan | IPCC Fumbles Media Relations Strategy, Must Review Basic Principles of Public Relations

If you don't have anything to hide, don't act as if you do.
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For an organization like the IPCC - which has been accused of holding information too closely to its chest - to send an open letter advising its lead authors and editors to "keep a distance from the media" demonstrates PR mismanagement at its worst. It reinforces the perception that IPCC leadership doesn't really know what it is doing.

New Peer Reviewed Paper on Climate Science and the Culture of Withholding Information

Accessing environmental information relating to climate change: a case study under UK freedom of information legislation’

by JOHN ABBOT and JENNIFER MAROHASY

The Smartest Grid In The Room: California Scheming Goes Awry — MasterResource

Possibly the most fascinating aspect of the Smart Grid is the absence of an economic rationale.

Abraham surrenders to Monckton. Uni of St Thomas endorses untruths. « JoNova

What do you do when someone speaks against your faith, sounds authoritative, well informed and backs everything up with lots of evidence? If you’re sane, you change your mind.

If you are John P. Abraham, a lecturer in fluid mechanics at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, you write to a few select scientists distorting what your opponent said, and then collect the infuriated responses. Abraham went on to assemble a list of things Christopher Monckton didn’t say, complained about things he didn’t cite (even if he did and it’s printed on his slides), pretended he can’t find sources (but didn’t take ten minutes to ask), and created a litany of communication pollution in an effort to denigrate Monckton’s character.

The untruths and fabrications have come back to bite him.