- Bishop Hill blog - Wonky code

Nature has an article up about wonky computer code, with particular reference made to the Harry Readme file and Nick Barnes' efforts to get climatologists to do better on the coding front.

Loss Of Old Ice In The Early 1990s – Due To El Niño? | Real Science

According to NSIDC, most of the loss of older ice occurred in the early 1990s.

Global Warming Hysteria: It’s Not “Radical” to be Skeptical– » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Bottom line: America is recovering from the hysteria, a virus they never fully caught in any event. Most of us, rightly in my view, believe it is more politics than science. We believe it seeks to undermine our sovereignty and turn over the economy to UN technocrats and politicized scientists. We believe the proposed cures–cap and trade, carbon tax, massive international income redistribution, forcing impoverished countries to remain poor, etc.–are far worse than whatever the disease might be.

And that isn’t going to change no matter how often activists like McKibben, Gore, and Hollywood types seeking to help their careers, stomp their feet in frustration. It seems that the common sense of the American people is once again going to prevail.