Uh oh. « the Air Vent

Steve M may have found the holy grail for climate skeptics. We don’t know what is in this data, and I’m guessing that neither do most climatologists and it covers 70 percent of the earth. What if the historic ocean temp trend is modified significantly by manual or algorithmic adjustment – I’m not saying it was, but it wouldn’t shock me after reading the discussions in the UEA emails. Link below.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must keep its eye on the ball | Myles Allen | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Instead of producing reports 3,000 pages long, the IPCC should focus only on the key questions that everyone is interested in

Energy secretary Chris Huhne warned not to cut subsidies for green electricity | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is told

[If the Chinese people really believed that CO2 might kill their grandchildren, would they take this stance?]: China Sustains Blunt 'You First' Message on CO2 - NYTimes.com

Yu, who is now China’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, presented a tough — and appropriate — challenge to the world’s industrialized nations, which have largely built their wealth on a couple of centuries of burning fossil fuels.

In sum, he said that China’s national interests will always come first and, in any move toward binding steps for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first.
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My sense of this, as a longtime observer, is that Scissors is right in concluding there will remain very little linkage between American choices on climate policy and Chinese actions.