Guardian Censors their Climate Debate | guardian.co.uk

Some parts of the debate have been edited out for legal reasons.

[Land ho!]: Did GISS discover 30% more land in the Northern Hemisphere? « JoNova

In fact as late as 1995, the NH line still ran at around 40% land area. But somewhere post 1995 – 1999 for some reason the average tracks closer to the 70% line.
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Lansner also finds this particular graph, which, rather like Sherwood 2008, uses an “unintuitive” scale.
The graphic below from Hansen and Lebedeff 1987,  shows the temperature trends from 1940-65. At a glance you might guess that things have become a little warmer. But the color of -0.5 to 0 C is a yellow, rather than a cool green, and it covers vast tracts of the world (most of Africa, Western Europe, North America, the North Atlantic, Siberia, and India). For the world to “look warmer”, it only needs to cool by less than half a degree. The “turning point” in the color scheme is at -0.5, not zero. This makes it look like cooling is only occurring in a few isolated spots.

Climate change [hoax] a hot issue for councils

More than a quarter of councils have already completed a risk assessment off their own initiative which identified over 7,000 risks to their operations from climate change, including water shortages, warmer temperatures, a longer fire season and rising sea levels.

GOP governors state their case at the Aspen Institute | Aspen Daily News Online

[Rick] Perry also said he is a “global-warming skeptic” and said proposed “cap and trade” legislation to reduce carbon emissions was not necessary and that “incentive-based regulations” were the answer to reduce pollutants.

“The fact of the matter is, we need to not be distracted on this issue of man-made global warming,” Perry said.

When asked his position on global warming, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell gave an apparently sarcastic answer.

“I’m pretty worried about climate change,” McDonnell said. ”My first month in office, we had three blizzards and 60 inches of snow in northern Virginia.”

The line drew a laugh and applause from the crowd...