Are polar bears real? Hoax has Twittersphere wondering about shadow climate secretary | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

What a lovely welcome for Meg Hillier, the new shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change: a lovingly crafted fake Twitter account, and some hand-picked people to follow.
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As for the real Meg Hillier, she's not known to have had a deep interest in climate change.

Why Won’t They Let Me Referee Too? | Real Science

Hansen plays the role of hockey team head coach, head cheerleader, head referee, head scorekeeper, team captain, prosecutor, judge and jury.

Mark Serreze On The 2013 Ice Free Arctic | Real Science

Only luck can save us from an ice-free Arctic in three years.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: American Exceptionalism?

It may very well be the case that in the league table of opposition to action on climate change, US Republicans (particularly their Tea Partiers) are at the top. But their uniqueness is a somewhat exaggerated by Brownstein. The table would also include Australian Liberals, the Danish People's Party, UK Conservatives (not of the LibCon persuasion), and even Germany's Free Democrats among others (who actually knows what China's ruling party actually thinks).

More important than the league table of expressed views are the actual policies that are in fact supported by national governments. Does Brownstein actually think that the policies supported by Britain and Germany, much less India and China, are on course to accelerating decarbonization? Or that if US Republicans started talking differently (or were converted to cap-and-trade) that decarbonization would be accelerating?