William M. Briggs, Statistician » The McShane and Wyner Gordie Howe Treatment Of Mann

Finally, we have our Amen, the touch of Grace, the last element of a Gordie Howe hat trick, and worthy of an octopus tossed onto the ice:

Climate scientists have greatly underestimated the uncertainty of proxy-based reconstructions and hence have been overconfident in their models.

Texas oil vs. California clean tech: the battle over Proposition 23 | Grist

The last stand for climate change has brought John Doerr, a leading green tech investor with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to the table. Doerr has given $500,000 to defeat Prop 23. And he's not alone.

Wendy Schmidt, founder the 11th Hour Project, a Silicon Valley environmental grant-making nonprofit (and wife of Google chief executive Eric Schmidt), donated $500,000 to NRDC's No Prop 23 Committee. (Disclosure: The Schmidt Family Foundation is a financial supporter of Grist's, and Wendy Schmidt is a member of the Grist Board.)

Google itself hasn't contributed to the No campaign, but last week the search giant's green energy chief, Bill Weihl, assured a gathering at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters that, "We're strongly behind the No on 23 campaign" and the global warming law, known as AB 32.

ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Debate Rises with Pakistan Floods - IPS ipsnews.net

KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) - "If this is not God’s wrath, what is?" 40-year-old taxi driver Bakht Zada said of the massive floods in Pakistan that have swept away his life earnings.
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Even R K Pachauri, chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says it would be scientifically incorrect to link any single set of events with human-induced climate change. But he agrees that there is enough evidence to show an increase in the frequency and intensity of floods, droughts and extreme precipitation events worldwide.

In fact, he told IPS: "The floods of the kind that hit Pakistan may become more frequent and more intense in the future in this and other parts of the world."