Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Maybe We Don't Have the Technology

In a news report just out from Greenwire, Pachauri has a very different message:

Pachauri also predicted that India could commit to carbon emissions cuts of its own "maybe 10 years from now," once the technology to effect such change becomes more widely available.

What that technology is and the mechanisms for making it widely available are not discussed, but the fact that Pachauri admits that it is not presently available and won't very soon be marks a stark change in orientation.

C3: Will Global Warming Cause Species Extinctions? Latest Peer-Reviewed Research Confirms Species Will Survive, Easily

Scientists examined past significant global warming periods and discovered that the excessive and extended warmth of those periods did not cause species to die out.

Who ya gonna read? : Stoat

If you go to Nature's upcoming climate publication, there's an online quiz they're using to decide who gets a freebie: https://www.sunbeltfs.com/forms/nq/subscribe.asp.

At one point it asks what climate-related blogs you read. Naturally, only the finest quality blogs are listed. There are three blogs:

_Bright Green Blog
_Real Climate
_Stoat
_Other (please specify)

BOM, GISS have record setting bugs affecting a million square miles? « JoNova

Western Australia (WA) covers 2.5 million square kilometers (1 million square miles, about a third as big as the USA). The average of all WA stations over one month last year was adjusted up by as much as a gobsmacking 0.5 degrees due to a database “bug” – which contributed to August 2009 being the hottest August on record?! That’s one heck of a bug!

Could it get worse? Unbelievably, GISS seems to have lost data for key WA locations that an unpaid volunteer found easily in the BoM online records. GISS only has to maintain copies of records for five stations in WA which have temperatures current to 2010, but in four of them they are missing data, and it affects the results. Are they random errors? No, shock me, four of the four errors are upwards: in one case making the spring 2009 average temperatures for Kalgoorlie-Boulder 1.1 C degrees warmer!