Seattle and Portland leaders don’t want to be ‘global’ mayors | Grist

But Adams and McGinn were hesitant to talk up their role as "global" mayors. McGinn said his major initiatives since taking office in January were about schools, employment, and transportation. He hasn't launched anything called "Save the Planet," he noted (though he gained most of his politicking experience at the local Sierra Club chapter). He may have learned the keep-it-local lesson from the man he defeated last fall, Greg Nickels, who started the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Voters resented what they perceived as a lack of attention to local issues (see "America's greenest mayor, laid off and looking on").

Science Blogging « the Air Vent

It is a thinking peoples game where reality almost always wins over everything else. There is no choice for us monkeys trying to keep up, except to learn to use better sticks. Exaggerated climatology will be the first victim of the blog, of that I’m confident, what will be the next? There is simply too much brainpower available in this world, too much ability to understand the good and bad of statistical nuance. Only the correct will win, open discussion is far too powerful.

All that aside, time is required.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

At the end of the summer 2010, under 15% of the ice remaining the Arctic was more than two years old, compared to 50 to 60% during the 1980s.

RealClimate: Cuccinelli goes fishing again

In keeping with our role as a site that tries to deal with the science of climate change rather than the politics, we have specifically refrained from commenting on various politically-motivated legal shenanigans relating to climate science. Some of them have involved us directly, but we didn’t (don’t) want to have RC become just a blog about us. However, the latest move by Ken Cuccinelli, the Attorney General of Virginia, against Mike Mann and UVa is so ridiculous it needs to be highlighted to the widest audience possible.

Climate Change; Data Control The Enemy Within

Data collection is expensive and requires continuity – it’s a major role for government. They fail with weather data because money goes to political climate research. A positive outcome of corrupted climate science exposed by Climategate, is re-examination beginning with raw data by the UK Met Office (UKMO). This is impossible because much is lost, thrown out after modification or conveniently lost, as in the case of records held by Phil Jones, director of Climategate...

Evidence of manipulation and misrepresentation of data is everywhere.