Money for Stoves; the Other Pledges? - NYTimes.com

But richer countries like the United States are going to be expected to pay a lot more than this to help poor countries mitigate climate change and adapt to its consequences. Remember: less than a year ago, developed countries promised at a United Nations climate meeting to provide $30 billion in fast-track financing to be dispensed by 2012.

But have they? The World Resources Institute, which is tracking the pledges, has said that some of the money promised so far is not really new money to combat climate change but the rebranding of previously committed aid funds.

Treasury trying to shut down climate department and axe clean energy funds | Left Foot Forward

The credibility of the coalition’s claim to be the ‘greenest government ever’ suffered a huge blow today with The Guardian revealing Lib Dem climate secretary Chris Huhne has had to battle to stop George Osborne’s Treasury shutting down his Department of Energy and Climate Change altogether.

The Death Spiral – Visualized | Real Science

September 21, 2007 was the day the earth stood still. Seven billion people breathlessly awaited the end of the winds which were compacting the Arctic ice. Everyone understood how the edge of the Arctic ice pack directly affected their ability to catch seals.

Since the “change point” in 2007, September 21 Arctic ice (15% concentration) extent has been expanding at a linear rate of 247,875 km² / year. Using the standard climate science metric, that is a gain of 4,201 Manhattans per year.

Norsex shows 2010 about 15% greater than 2007.

Times Daily, 11 Sep, 1972: "Expert Claims Ice Age Creeping Up" | Climate Realists

Did the Met Office use a different branch of climate mathematical analysis in 1972, or has the data been corrupted?

And why did the Head Of The Met Office at the time put forward that the SUN as being resposible for the changes in our climate, and yet this rather important issue is NOT on the Met Office radar as of today?