C3: Phil Jones, The 'Closet' Skeptic: Is He Now Throwing The CO2-AGW Hypothesis Under The Bus?

Now, several months later, Jones has published a paper with others that concludes the 1970's land surface cooling was due to cooling in the North Atlantic Ocean. Obviously, Jones and company are now recognizing that natural, large-scale factors are forcing global changes in temperatures besides the IPCC favored trace gas CO2 from human emissions.

Obama Presides Over A Hurricane Free Presidency | Real Science

President Franklin Roosevelt didn’t do so well. During his first year in office (1933) three major hurricanes struck the US during September alone. In 1935, America got slammed with a category 5 hurricane. (That hasn’t happened since George Bush Sr. was president.) President Roosevelt’s hurricane problem must have been due to the very high levels of atmospheric CO2 in 1933 – about 310 ppm.

There can be little doubt that President Obama has the midas touch when it comes to keeping America safe from hurricanes.

- Bishop Hill blog - KPMG: not shooting straight?

Perhaps an explanation does exist, but it seems quite odd that a slip-up of this kind should find its way into the final report of KPMG’s review, given that the veracity of reports such as these depend on thorough examination of small details.

Climate Heats Up, But Global Warming Treaty Out in the Cold

"Let us first be clear that the science is becoming more certain, not less," Huhne said. "This year alone, we have seen extreme weather events across the globe. Mudslides in China. Forest fires in Russia. Floods in Pakistan. And the breaking-off of a massive ice sheet in Greenland. No one of those events on their own can be attributed with certainty to climate change, but the increase [what increase, specifically?] in their frequency can - as the re-insurers will tell you."