What’s worse than bullying? Incarceration. « JoNova

When trillion of dollars depends on a carbon-currency created from thin air, how long will it be before information related to that money-flow becomes “market sensitive”, and only licensed operators are allowed to discuss it? Does it sound utterly unthinkable that people discussing radiative physics or upper tropospheric convection processes could be threatened with jail if they suggest these things are not exactly as models “predict”?

Well here it is, now that the bullying is no longer working, and the masses are starting to ask hard questions, those with colossal future profits at risk are upping the ante.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Rathenau Institute Report on IPCC and the Politicization of Climate Science

The Rathenau Institute, a leading Dutch think tank with a focus on technology assessment, has published a thoughtful analysis of the politicization of climate science, with a focus on the IPCC and the media (here in PDF). It is a smart and sophisticated report.

My Comments On The Real Climate’s Summary Of The “Climate Consensus” « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Until, and unless, Real Climate can successfully argue why we need to be primarily concerned with CO2, and why the perspective that we present above is incorrect, they are not presenting a “basic consensus is almost universally accepted”.

Climate Change: Personal Attacks Continue Instead Of Dealing With The Science

Climategate like its namesake Watergate will ultimately collapse because of the cover-up reinvigorated by the phony inquiries

Climate Change Fraud - Sydney endures coldest night in 61 years

Sydney has recorded its coldest June night in 61 years, with the western suburbs shivering under a vast white blanket as the mercury dipped below freezing.

Utilities and Environmentalists Haggle Over Climate Bill - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

Yet while contact between some of these utilities and environmental groups go back a ways — Mr. Rogers and Eileen Claussen of the Pew Center recently co-authored a call for climate action — the negotiations have stirred some skepticism in Washington.

“How many votes do they command?” one Senate staffer asked in a deadpan voice.

Winter 2010-2011 predictions

This is what Theodore White, astrometeorologist has to say:

“From my long-range astronomical calculations for North America, I've forecasted 2010-11 to be a very strong El Nino year. This is caused mainly by the activity of the Sun, which will undergo a historic solar maximum that will bring to an end the 36-year global warming phase that began in the year 1980 while opening a new global cooling phase that will get underway by the year 2017. In the meantime, I am also forecasting that the years of late 2009 to 2016 will feature some of the world's wildest climate and weather events of the early 21st century that, by the mid-2010s, will have seen the close of the current 36-year phase of global warming that Earth has experienced since 1980. By 2010, in my estimation, we will have entered the 30th year of Solar-forced global warming. These last six-to-seven-and-a-half years, from 2010 to about 2017, will likely feature some of the warmest global temperatures recorded in the entire 36th year global warming cycle. This cycle, like that of global cooling on its way in the decades ahead - is directly caused by the Sun.